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None of the right steps are being taken to win this War on Terror, and the left is primarily to blame for this.

I disagree on this point, Carrick, but not with the rest of this excellent post.  I hold the Republican voters who stayed home or voted for Dems out of pique for this narrow defeat.  A lot of them got intimidated by the avalanche of lies from the left, and simply gave up trying to do what they know is the right thing.  “For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.” That saying has never been more true than in the last election.  Shame on us!  The lefties are mired in their denial and ignorance, but we know better.

If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?

Robert108, perhaps I should have said “to the extent that the right steps are not being taken, the Left is primarily to blame for this”.  SImply because they and their allies in the MSM are working overtime to undermine everything the administration attempts to do.

Yet another leaked classified memo today, BTW published in the New York Times.

Carrick: Don’t disagree with you, and am not being critical of your piece in any way.  I am just disappointed at the degree the MSM has been successful in intimidating the Republican voters, is all.  We didn’t need to lose this election, even with all the dishonest reporting.

If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?

Yeah, you did need to lose this election and you still don’t get it.  The Republican voters weren’t intimidated and it wasn’t the dishonest press. This is just another excuse you use to justify your “thumpin” on November 7.  You failed miserably in governing, no budget, no work done in the Congress, the war mishandled (even Rummy wanted significant change).  It wasn’t the press who was corrupt, it was Foley, Ney, DeLay, Cunningham, Savafian, Abramoff et al.  It wasn’t the press who failed to get anything done in Congress, it was the republicans.  It was greed and corruption and utter failure that did you in.  Shame on you for making excuses!

There goes Puzzle again.  Thinking that a slightly worse than average mid-term shift with a wartime president is some kind of “thumpin”.  LOL.

I agree with her on one thing.  The Republicans defeated themselves in this last cycle, though they certainly got some help from the MSM.  Any honest person would admit that last part.

As for the other...this just demonstrates that Puzzle still thinks this is a big game.  Let’s see which party can out sleaze the other shall we?  I’ll see you one Foley and raise you a Barney Franks.

P: Still in denial about the Dem corruption?  I’m not surprised, since you have the lying MSM to cover for you.  That doesn’t change the truth; your people were just as corrupt, maybe more so.

If life doesn’t begin at conception, why do they call it birth control?

The thing about power is you must use it selectively for it to put fear in people.

The problem we face is that we have been throwing our power around in a restrained way that doesn’t show our enemies the full breathe of that power.  Instead, they see us pussy-footing around to our own detriment and hardly being successful and so they are no longer afraid of us.

We are using our force in too much quantity but we are lacking quality because the left (and many in the GOP) wont let us fully show the enemy how serious we are.

You’re right Carrick. It’s all about feelings. Feelings replace facts because people have been brainwashed into believing that there is no absolute truth. (when perception becomes reality)

With the decline of the authority of Judeo-Christian values in the West, many people stopped looking to external sources of moral standards in order to decide what is right and wrong.

Instead of being guided by God, the Bible and religion, great numbers — in Western Europe, the great majority — have looked elsewhere for moral and social guidelines.

For many millions in the twentieth century, those guidelines were provided by Marxism, Communism, Fascism or Nazism.

For many millions today, those guidelines are feelings.

With the ascendancy of leftist values that has followed the decline of Judeo-Christian religion, personal feelings have supplanted universal standards.

In fact, feelings are the major unifying characteristic among contemporary liberal positions.

Aside from reliance on feelings, how else can one explain a person who believes, let alone proudly announces on a bumper sticker, that “War is not the answer”?

That is so demonstrably false and morally ignorant. Almost every great evil has been solved by war — from slavery in America to the Holocaust in Europe.

Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers making war, not by pacifists who would have allowed the Nazis to murder every Jew in Europe”

Nowadays falsehood stands erect and truth lies prostrate on the ground.

Bezu, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head… Many on the left (and many sneering-at-Christians Europeans) fail to recognize the reality of an absolute moral standard, and hence are left with moral relativism.  This is typified by them breathlessly equating the “evil of the United States” to “the evil of Saddam Hussein”.

Force is the only way to stop madmen and regimes that decide to act in a lawless manner towards their own populace.  If this were not true, we would not need policemen, let alone armies, to ensure our own security.

I could easily post another commentary on this “Why I don’t trust the Democrats:  Because it is the refuge of moral relativists and pacifists, and we cannot trust the rest of that Party to not be controlled by the whims of this idiotic minority”. 

Of course, moral relativism and pacifism go together quite well, in fact the first is probably a requirement for the second.

Carrick
I agree whole heartedly. Some people have gone to great pains to create from thin air, certain perceptions in America, about America, its past, and therefore, its future.

Without delving into the “who” or “why”, it is vital to our future as a nation, as a people, that we correct these perceptions by focusing on reality.

Half of the public does not vote, we don’t know why, so we don’t know exactly what they think.

The other half are closely divided, but on the basis of perceptions, not reality.

If we were all working with the same set of facts, (information based on real occurrences supported by verifiable evidence), we would not be nearly as divided… So why don’t we?

In short, because the known facts don’t always support our personal agenda, so we invent or subscribe to a set of opinions or perceptions that do.

Nowadays falsehood stands erect and truth lies prostrate on the ground.