Posted by
CW on Monday, August 11, 2008 1:00:49 PM
Say whatever you want about the Left, they know how to play the political game. In the battle of politics they are the sneaky guerilla fighters whose only rule is that there are no rules. They’ll do whatever they need to in order to win, and if that means fighting dirty then so be it.
Back in 2000 we had the spectacle of Al Gore challenging the results of his lost bid for the presidency and trying to win by selectively recounting ballots only in democrat-majority precincts. When that tactic failed democrats made unsubstantiated claims of voter intimidation and malfunctioning voter equipment. With all the integrity of the classic sore loser, Gore and company have been claiming ever since that George Bush is an illegitimate president.
This country paid a huge price for Gore’s hissy fit. We’ve spent billions to replace voting machines that weren’t broken, bitterness in the black community was artificially inflamed by erroneous claims of disenfranchisement, our unity as Americans was damaged with false claims of Bush’s illegitimacy, and every election is now circumspect whether there is good reason or not. In the eyes of a liberal democrat though, no price is too much for the rest of us to pay if it might buy them the power they seek.
Now, with the John Edward’s scandal unfolding, we can clearly see the price that Bill Clinton exacted from us when he tried to escape the public’s rightful condemnation by proclaiming that his extra-marital dalliances were a ‘personal’ issue. “It’s a personal issue,” has now become the first defense of democrat politicians and the battle cry of their defenders. The end game is to make personal character an irrelevant issue in politics – at least for democrats - and to try and portray the rest of us as petty busybodies for caring about it. Alas, in the Lefts’ quest to win at any cost they have led their followers to believe that moral behavior is more than we have a right to expect from those who would lead this nation.
In a time when voters are free to choose a president because they like his toothy smile or hip sunglasses, it is truly audacious to tell us that the issue of marital fidelity is out of bounds.