Our dumb luck, alas, is that our supreme leader is a trust-fund kid with a chip on his shoulder and zero understanding of history or war...-Andrew Sullivan, a true Goldwater conservative, on the fascist turn the current Republican president has taken the party and the country.
And what has this messianic maniac in the White House done? He has set loose a fantastically murderous war in Iraq, he has sacrificed thousands of young Americans with the result not of restraining but empowering our enemies, he has done incalculable long-term damage to the country's fiscal standing, he has indirectly caused the massacre of tens of thousands of innocents, he has come close to wrecking the military of the United States, and he has robbed the United States of its long and hard-won record of humane and decent warfare.
This is not the work of a conservative statesman; it's the mark of a delusional fanatic...It is a conservative duty to expose and restrain him from any more mischief in his final months. He has refused every olive branch toward sanity. He has balked at every face-saver. So he must be stopped. Above all else, he cannot be allowed to determine the future of this country's foreign policy in the Middle East. He has done enough damage already.
The antidote? Sullivan says it could be Barack Obama:
...a small-c conservative can consider backing a liberal if all the viable "conservatives" are corrupt, divisive, shallow, in hock to religious fanatics or palpably unserious about national security. So far, that roughly describes the GOP candidates...I whole-heartedly agree about Obama, but I also think there are other Democrats in the race that could restore America's integrity: Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, even Al Gore if he decided to enter the race. But right now Sen. Obama has the numbers (money numbers and poll numbers), and his oratory is something to behold. And that goes a very long way in this day and age of the 30-second sound bite.
We're in a war we have to win. We have a constitution to defend. Those are my acting premises and guiding principles. Given that, I'm not sure we can afford more of this Republican recklessness and incompetence in foreign affairs - let alone their big government nannying and trashing of the rule of law at home...If Giuliani is elected, I don't think the Constitution will survive another terror attack. It's really that simple...
If [Hillary] Clinton is the nominee, of course, a lot changes. A lot of people will be forced to return to the GOP and struggle against most odds from within. So Obama is very much on the table. He has to be, by default. I'm reading; I've been observing; I'm researching more. That's all. Could any Democrat have spent and borrowed more than Bush? Could any Democrat have damaged national security more than Bush and Cheney?
More importantly, Obama would bring large numbers of disenchanted moderate Republicans to the Democratic side in a general election...voters that would just as easily vote for Lucifer than for Hillary Clinton.
Hillary could win against some of the Republicans in the field. But put her up against three of the top four (Giuliani, McCain, and Fred Thompson) and she loses. It's really that simple. And do the Democrats REALLY want to lose yet another race that is theirs to win? Do they really think America can afford another four years of Republican/Fascist rule?
That the Clintons don't see the potential defeat disturbs me. Bill Clinton - more than any politician of the last 25 years - has always been able to read the political tea-leaves; yet he seems to have lost that strength when he needs it most. Hillary can't win, and for the sake of his party and, more importantly, the country he led for eight years, the former president should sit the former first lady down for a very lengthy chat.
