Punditchick

Left Behind

Shouldn't the Kremlin's apparent bio-terror hit on Yuschenko be a learning moment for the American Left?  Do they ask themselves, I wonder, why Mr. Rove, the world's worst evil-doer, didn't do something like this to Kerry? 

The American Left has convinced itself that Islamism is no big deal and that its opposition to Bush is a treacherous endeavor that requires extraordinary bravery. Like so much else the Left believes, this is hogwash.

If Moore is on the trail of the real killers, how come he doesn't have to move from house to house like Rushdie? How come Moore's dishonest indictment of Bush has gotten him the Palme d'Or at Cannes, while Theo Van Gogh's honest indictment of Islam's misogyny got him shot, stabbed and partially beheaded in the streets of Amsterdam?

Some Lefties are out to such a long lunch that their post-election malaise has caused them to develop loopy exit strategies to get out of Bush's America. Some are learning Dutch and planning to move to Holland. Do they not know that a rolling jihad is happening there?  They think a land of tulips and High Times centerfolds awaits them. In reality, Little Algeria and Little Cairo awaits them.

Shouldn't the Left be asking itself, "Why didn't Halliburton, Bechtel and Carlyle engineer a 49 state landslide for Bush like they did for Reagan and Dick Nixon?" and "Why hasn't Papy Bush used some old Langley hands to rub out Michael Moore?" How difficult would it be to make it appear as if the Fatty from Flint OD'd on pork chops? 

The fact is Bush Inc. is profoundly fragile. They won by two points in Ohio.

The hard truth is that Team Bush isn't evil-- its ordinary and opposing it has been cost-free. What that means is that the Bush haters aren't dissidents or heroes. It means that the Bush haters are very ordinary.

But the Left needs Bush to be evil. Similarly, they need Iraq to be Vietnam. Because opposing a President who isn't the Evil One, and opposing a war that just might work in the end, is no fun.

The hard truth isn't fun either . The Left prefers to be seen in soft light. With vaseline on the lens, they are beautiful and brave. They are Rosa Parks.

While they are crowing about sitting in a seat that no one is telling them to get out of, we should remind them of Mr. Van Gogh in terms they can understand. Remember Emmett Till.

Indulging Bill

In the wake of Kerry's collapse, the Left has gone back to Bill.  It's a bad idea. The Left's continued misoverestimation of Bill has put them where they are-- out of power in Washington.

"I won Montana" is Bill's new talking point, and desperate Dems are eating it up.

Bill's "I won Montana" boast sounds mighty impressive, but it really isn't. Bill won Montana in '92 by less than three points. How did he do that? H. Ross Perot's 26% of the vote there had a little to do with it. Had Perot been running this time and got the same percentage of the vote, Kerry would have carried Montana by 5 points.

At long last, the Democrats should speak truth to Bill. They should tell him, "The only reason you won in '92 was Perot. Jesusland was divided. Perot was a well-funded, folksy populist from Texarkana, Texas who once upon a time ran an A-Team type mission to rescue American hostages from Arab terrorists. Americans like that kind of thing, and lots of  them voted for him-- around twenty million of them did. You only got 43% of the vote, that's only two and a half points better than Mondale did in '84. So put down the Sharpie, T.O."

Unfortunately, there is no one left to tell the truth to Bill.

The Left's post-election pity fest has gotten super self indulgent. Hysterical Leftists have tried to advance lots of false and wild claims about Jesusland.  It's gotten them through several tough nights, but enough's enough. Over at Powerline, there is a whole lot of debunkin' going on.

About Mr. Sites

The Left has enjoyed saying that Bush's lack of curiosity about the rest of the world and his West Texas ways have provoked Arab rage, but hasn't the American media been Bin Laden's best commercial?

Kevin Sites, the U.S. Marine Corps' Steve Bartman, has given the Arab Street actionable footage to use against our troops. Needless to say, this is a bad, bad thing.

Mr. Sites runs a company called Shoot First Films (Liar!! -- Ed.) and was formerly an on-set fluffer for Brokaw in New York. That's how Tokyo Axl Rose got embedded with Our Marines.

Sites isn't alone. Luis Sinco, who provided America with the morale-raising photo of the Marlboro Man, has made it up to his MSM colleagues by inciting the terrorists. Sinco's picture of marines crashing in a mosque (there are no Ho Jos in Falluja after all) has been exploited by the Gulf Media and the angry Arabs are angrier than usual.

The pictures of Abu Ghraib and the Sites video serve as gateway images. The Arab media play them on an endless loop and angry, directionless males in the Muslim world become radicalized jihadis. For the media elites, this isn't a problem. Their sensitive sons are at Brown getting taught by far Left Professors-- they'll never be going house to house in Fallujah. The sons of flyover country are disproportionately on the line in Iraq, and if they die, they deserve it. After all, they reelected Bush.

The American media plays a double game. The Anchors with Ego run their packages of the latest American combat deaths-- the packages have somber music and the A.W.E. seem almost weepy. But look real hard, beneath all the pancake make up, there is unmistakable and dark joy on their faces.

Dan "Kinkos" Rather and Aaron Brown are the most obvious in their joy. Chris Matthews is another guy who transparently wants the insurgents-- no "bad guys" they-- to win in Iraq. But we mustn't question their patriotism. The A.W.E. are all Yankee Doodle Boys.

They don't wear flag pins like the rookies over at Fox News, not because they don't love the flag, but because they haven't found pins large enough to adequately express their commitment to God and Country. And when it appears to one and all that they are rooting for the insurgents, that's just psy ops to get Our boys more fired up.

Tom Friedman has reported that some Iraqis have taken to calling our troops "the Jews." I'm sure the actionable images given to the Iraqi street by the Western and Arab media has something to do with that.

I wonder what our troops are called at Ms. Tina's dinner parties and in elite media newsrooms. It seems to me that the Left's "Anybody But Bush" doctrine has a global reach. It wouldn't surprise me if our troops are called "Dubyas" in elite media circles.

Mr. Brokaw, Sites' former boss, was booed by the Cornhusker and  Sooner faithful at Owen Field in Norman, Oklahoma last Saturday. The Sites video dropped Monday.  I realize that Mr. Brokaw is from South Dakota and that he was the first to call Reagan's "boys of Pointe du Hoc" the "Greatest Generation," but was NBC's decision to run the Sites video a case of the Ego striking back at the values voters of the Heartland?

Jim, Jim, Jim

Wolcott is not pleased with Jesusland's Fallujah op. He thinks the American military's tactics are IDF-like--so much so that he thinks America should be renamed "Israel West".

Personally, I think the the Euros are too attached to the term Jew S.A. to follow Wolcott's lead, but "Israel West" arabized to "Zionist Entity West" could catch on. "Death to the Zionist Entity West" could become the new hot chant on the streets of  Teheran, Karachi and Cairo.

Jim Wolcott, an FOT (friend of Ms. Tina Brown) and the blogosphere's improbable yogi, is just not a happy guy right now. Bush has a mandate, it has been revealed that Dick Cheney has a super-sized schlong, the Dems have no subpoena power and the Red Staters (especially the breeders) have a new matinee idol, the Marlboro Man. 

The rapture in Jesusland is intolerable for the Blue State intelligencia. I detect some Gary Kamiya-like bad wishing on Wolcott's part. Doesn't it sound like Jim wants the Marlboro Man to get his cig permanently stomped out in the City of Mosques?

The Marlboro Man is from Pike County, Kentucky--a slightly blue county in a deeply Red State-- isn't that mitigating? Can Blue Staters, like Wolcott the Cat Poser, stop hoping that he dies now?

He's Dead

Arafat has officially gone to that Malt Shop in the sky... er, I mean Hell.

What They're Reduced To

Jim Wolcott's worldview just got carpet bombed. The American people rejected his guy, pink Hermes tie and all, tossed out Tom Daschle, sent crazy Doc Coburn to Washington and Suha is calling Andrew McCarthy's and Jonathan Silverman's agents. Is now really the time for Jim W. Bush to declare himself an ass man?

We've been told by VF's heavy that the Republic is in worse shape than Kirstie Alley, and what is he preoccupied with? The possibility that Andrew Sullivan pleasured his own ass on Maher's chat show. 

I suspect watching the final minutes of Real Time like it is the Zapruder film is all Jim has. Buttgate is small time, tracer fire in Fallujah is real time.

For Jim and John, there is always '08. In the meantime, there is a couch in Boca.

I'm Afraid

I know I shouldn't be, but I don't think Bush hating is a phase. It seems to me that GWB is the poor man's Nixon.

Even (perhaps, especially ) if Bush transforms Iraq into a bitchin and livable place, there are a lot of  deadenders who'll never forgive him.

Check out the considerable narcissism of the Brenda Lees of the Left.

Bush loathing has been really, really good for dorks. They've found purpose, made friends and got to pretend to be edgy. Dorky white people aren't going to move on.

Dorky white guys stuck in their dorm rooms seem particularly fixated. Let's face it, banging Bush day in and day out is the best pussy they've ever had.

When the Tide Turned Red

Here's an illuminating dispatch from the front lines of the electoral battle in Toledo, Ohio (Via Kaus):

I was a Kerry-Edwards outside atty/poll stander at East Side Central Elem School in Toledo, OH. [snip] ... Very heavy voting all though the AM with little lull, through to about 3 pm. Early vote was heavily pro-Kerry, I'd say 75% or more in the AM, while the late, more casual, after work vote was maybe 65-35 Bush. The percentage for Kerry, I'd say, attenuated with the day, with the first hour's percentage possibly 85-90% Kerry and steadily, slowly diminishing over time, with a fall-off, both in turnout overall and percentage for Kerry, again, after 3 pm.

From what I gather, from friends working in CT and OH, this trend was commonly observed.

I felt at 1 pm like we'd win handily, then as the SUVs with "Never Forget 9-11" stickers and the like came in late, I worried.

The "Never mind 9-11, Never Forget Florida" Democrats lost last Tuesday and they deserved to lose.

Mock the Vote

Watching the post-election liberal meltdown has been mucho fun. They simply can't deal with the fact that Bushitler kicked their asses at the polls.They are reduced to nursing their Blue State Blues by engaging in crazy talk.

In one sentence the liberals say Bush's corporate cronies (see Diebold) stole the election for him in Ohio and Florida. Then they say creepy Evangelicals galvanized by Rovian dirty tricks gave Bush the W.

The Left has it all covered. Bush's victory can be explained away as a corporate fix or a triumph of  bigots in the flyover states. But neither is true and it would be healthy for them to accept it... soon!!

The Left has every right to cry in its Zima, but it shouldn't be allowed to peddle the "Bush got re-elected because of the Deliverance vote" lie. David Brooks has a great piece debunking the Left's post-election spin.

Hard America Triumphs

The heroes of this election are the folks in Southeastern and rural Ohio, the I-4 corridor of Florida, the South, the Middle West and the Mountain West. They carried this Country on Tuesday.

Despite Moore, Soros, P. Diddy, Viacom, Moveon.org, Dan Rather's forged documents, the late hit from the Times, Howard Stern voters, the flaky youth vote, telegenic chaos in Iraq and Bin Laden's video interference, America voted Bush. Good for us!!!

America is a good and tough country and Michael Barone is HOT!!