Children's Crusade

20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
1 Corinthians 14:20

Dennis Prager has gone to the trouble of analyzing us Democrats succinctly and completely based on the speech of Ilana Wexler, the 12 year old founder of a group called Kids for Kerry out in California. In review it is Mr. Prager's analysis, however, that I would characterize as childish.

Basically he takes some liberal stereotypes, assumes they apply to the entire party, and explain that the decision to put Ms. Wexler on stage stemmed from those reasons. Allow me to demonstrate a similar analysis.

Republicans are mean grumpy sourpusses. We all know that they tend to wear stodgy suits and have poor sense of humor. So it makes sense that they would pick Dick Cheney, a humorless mean-spirited grumpy guy to be their vice president.

See how grown up and sensible that kind of arguing is? Of course I only wasted three sentences of your time; Dennis Prager goes on with this kind of argument for considerably longer.

Of course he eventually gets around to trashing young Ms. Wexler.

"Listening to a 12-year-old publicly mock the Republican vice president of the United States brought Democrats almost orgasmic pleasure, especially since no Democrats had the courage to do so in their speeches.

Of course, this girl has accomplished nothing compared to Dick Cheney. She has no wisdom, no humility and no knowledge beyond the leftist platitudes spoon-fed by her parents and schools. "

I am guessing that Mr. Prager has never read the story of the Emperors New Clothes. He then trots out the lame argument that using the F-Word in Rolling Stone is somehow worse than using it on the senate floor to a Democratic Senator. Of course we all know what the real difference is. Mr. Kerry is a Democrat; Mr. Cheney is a Republican.

For those of you interested in seeing what Ms. Wexler said, here is a link to a video. it's short, and I can't seem to find a transcript.