What is it with the Democrats?


A rant about the Democratic strategy

OK, are they brain dead or do they think *I* am brain dead?

Today we have the news that there is an email circulating trying to scare
the 18-20 somethings into registering to vote against Bush. The message
says that there is a bill pending to reinstate the draft. We have Dan
Rather putting on a "Regular Mom" crying about not wanting her child to be
drafted. And Its All Republicans Fault...

One Small Problem... "The truth shall set you free".

The bill pending in congress was sponsored by Charley Rangel (one of the
most rabid liberals out there) and is backed by 14 or so other congress
critters - ALL DEMOCRATS. It's been in congress for a year or so and was
DOA to begin with. The Republicans don't want a draft and the military has
met it's recruitment goals for the year already. (National Guard numbers
are about 5000 short, though. My take on that is it's folks like my
neighbor. Was guard. Got called up for a tour. During that tour, he
re-up'd as regular airforce. Times how many thousands? I'd guess far more
than 5...)

OK, the answer is clear:

Anyone who gets such a bogus "stop the draft" email needs to do what it
says - Send it on to kids and educators. Just do one thing first. Edit it
to say "The DEMOCRAT Sponsored bill" just in front of where it lists the
bill number. Oh, and add a sentence that says "Stop the draft! Elect a
Republican! It's the Democrats who want to draft you!!"

Side Bar:

On Kerry's web site he has a position statement on the draft. While being
anti-draft sort of, he advocates 2 years mandatory national service for High
School kids... Go figure. I was against it before I was for it?...

Rather Not:

Even a cursory inspection of the "Regular Mom" Rather paraded out shows that
she is Chapter President of an organization that is an anti-draft
organization. Hardly just a regular mom... a hard core political activist
leading a focus pressure group is not just a random off the street. Leaving
me to wonder if Dan Rather is brain dead for not mentioning this fact or
incompetent for not knowing it. (Or a part of the Democratic Party Machine
and suffering from cranial rectal inversion.)
From http://ratherbiased.com/news.html comes this quote:

"Beverly Cocco seems nice enough on camera, but she is hardly the
"Pennsylvania voter" that CBS News wants you to believe she is. In fact, the
apolitical mother of two is a chapter president of an advocacy group called
People Against the Draft (PAD) which, in addition to opposing any federal
conscription, seeks to establish a "peaceful, rational foreign policy" by
bringing all U.S. troops out of Iraq. Like Schlesinger's Cocco, the group
portrays itself as "nonpartisan"although its leadership seems to be entirely
bereft of any Republicans.

The group's domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a left-wing
activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush Administration to the
totalitarian government portrayed in George Orwell's 1984. " End Quote.

Sigh.

They need to understand that in this modern age of Bloggers, Talk Radio,
Instant Internet Research, and, well, better educated folks than were around
50 years ago; you just can't do the bald faced lie and live to benefit from
it. The new media are now "inside the decision cycle" where the old media
took too long to surface the lie. Now it's blowback time...

Mike Smith
San Jose, California

Posted: Mon - October 4, 2004 at 12:44 AM      

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