Sunday,October
24 2004
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The result is that we've been battling a
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while others continue to display old pages, etc. Needless
to say, it's a been a pain and an inconvenience for us as
well as for a (hopefully) small percentage of our visitors.
We apologize. We've fixed the problems and will continue
to work to make sure RCP runs smoothly through the election
and beyond.
And
now back to our regularly scheduled programming.....
THE
CIVILIZED BARBARIANS: You
may have seen this quote from a column in The Guardian yesterday:
On November 2, the entire civilised
world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law
dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence
of God once and for all. The world will endure four more
years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed,
with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John
Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where
are you now that we need you?
Ah, yes, members of the "civilised
world" are now calling for the assassination of the
President of the United States. Members of the "civilised
world" now take to describing a person whose political
views they disagree with as "a lying, sniggering, drink-driving,
selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling,
twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat."
Give me a break. The European left is as
rotten and rudderless as it is arrogant and paranoid.
I wish
I could report that the political left in this country wasn't
starting to look more and more like their trans-Atlantic
brethren. I can't. Some of the behavior we're seeing from
Democrats in America at the moment ranges from comical to
bizarre to deeply disturbing:
These
are just a few stories from the last week pulled off the
top of my head. The list is by no means comprehensive, but
it's plenty enough for Democrats to be ashamed of. And they
should be.
The
fact is Democrats are angry, desperate, and absolutely beside
themselves at facing the prospect of another four years
with George W. Bush as President. Frankly, I don' t blame
them.
With
so much invested emotionally, it will be a crushing psychological
blow for liberals to see Bush reelected a week from this
Tuesday. Furthermore, if Bush wins big it could be a defeat
that threatens the very foundations of the liberal movement
itself.
But
even that is no excuse for some of the behavior we're seeing.
It's no excuse for bending the rules, breaking the law,
and generally treating this year's election with an "anything
goes" mentality where the ends justify any means. The
country deserves - and the Constitution demands - much more
than that.
Post
Script: In the interest of fairness I went looking
to put together a similar list of shameful incidents involving
Republicans. But aside from the currently disputed and unproven
allegations of some
Democratic registrations being ripped up and thrown in the
trash out in Nevada, I couldn't find anything comparable.
In fact, using the exact same search criteria that turned
up pages of stories involving the vandalism of Bush offices,
etc. around the country yielded surprisingly few
results
when applied to John Kerry. If you know of any incidents
of Republicans targeting Kerry offices or supporters with
vandalism or thuggish behavior, please send them through
so I can post them. -
T. Bevan 8:15 am Link
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