Punish Whom?
One of life’s important guiding principles is that every choice results in consequence. If you believe the media version of current events and the views of assorted and allegedly politically astute pundits, conservative Republican voters are staying home this election year – in droves. Supposedly, we’re doing it to punish the Republicans. Could be I don’t have as much insight as the political strategists and others do. Out here in fly around country, I generally rely on a poll of one to decide my way. Me. One-hundred percent of the time, I’m correct in predicting what I will do on Election Day. Decidedly more correct in that regard than are Misters Zogby and Rasmussen. I suggest that you also rely on a poll of one – and your conscience.
Only once in my life, did I vote a straight party ballot. It was my first vote. I could barely name the candidates much less tell you what they or their party stood for. I come from a family of Yellow Dog Democrats so I dutifully put the X in the circle for the Democrat Party and dropped my absentee ballot in the mailbox. I was a 20-year-old Army Private. I can take solace because recent history tells me that the vote probably wasn’t counted anyway. Many Americans still do it that way. Their only information and motivation coming from campaign commercials or Yellow Dog traditions. Sad.
This year, I’m going to walk into the polling place, get my ballot, computer screen or whatever it is they direct me towards this time, look for the R’s and make my voting booth visit a brief one. No, I’m not reverting to my old uninformed ways. Both political parties have their elected stinkers, but one has a history and they’ve already told us they’ll pull a repeat if we give them the power to do it.
It was a liberal biased media, led by Uncle Walter Cronkite, which convinced Americans our Military was defeated during TET of 1968 in Vietnam. The historical truth is TET was a major military defeat - for the North Vietnamese. Problem is, Americans trusted Uncle Walt to whom there existed no counter voice, so we believed him and turned against the war and deserted our Soldiers. The militarily defeated North Vietnamese were politically and media savvy. They knew the liberal American media along with their Kerry and Fonda like accomplices were turning the tide for them. They realized that in an era that didn’t have instantaneous worldwide communications. They also knew that they had a Democrat led United States Congress willing to pull the plug, which they eventually did when they stopped the funding that provided the South Vietnamese with logistical support they needed to defend themselves. That was their tribute to the sacrifice of 58,000 courageous Americans.
That same liberal media started reporting to us within 24 hours of the beginning of the Iraq invasion that we were hopelessly bogged down. It was only a few days later that they used Vietnam and quagmire to describe the war. The norm since has been negative war news. The table is now set with the comparison of the month of October in Iraq to TET of 1968. If you believe that the people who want to kill us are not politically savvy and tuned in to the American political scene, you’re beyond naïve. They hear what the North Vietnamese heard. The war is wrong. Most Americans are against it. The Democrats vow to pull the troops out. They believe if they increase the violence and make it more painful for Americans, the media will follow the scripted plan and help them influence American votes in their favor on Election Day. The killers are making it obvious who they want leading our country.
When I consider that, along with the people who lead and influence the Democrat party, it’s easy for me to change my long-standing rule against voting a straight party ticket for this mid-term election. There’s a Ted Turner video posted on You Tube. In it, Jane Fonda’s ex-spouse said that he has trouble choosing sides in our war against the terrorists. Mr. Turner is an example of the rich, influential and woefully ignorant people who fund and influence the modern Democrat party. If that isn’t enough, then consider that CNN, founded by Mr. Turner, is airing terrorist propaganda videos of American Soldiers being hit by snipers. I pray that a parent, spouse or child was not witness to the video of a loved one dying because insensitive useful idiots want to aid our enemies. I can’t share the language I’m thinking. People like Ted Turner and media like CNN – that broadcasts worldwide 24 hours a day – put for me an identifiable face on the modern Democrat party.
Senator Harry Reid bragged about killing the Patriot Act. The law that provides us the tools we need to interdict the people that want to kill us. Congressman Charles Rangel, the potential Chairman of the House, Ways and Means Committee has already bragged that you can’t fight a war if you can’t pay for it. The Democrat’s military expert thinks we should pull back and form a defensive perimeter around Okinawa. Collectively, Democrats want to give U.S. Constitutional rights to enemy combatants, they want to impede our ability to listen to their communications, they demean Soldiers at every opportunity, they demean and obstruct the Commander in Chief and anyone else who is trying to take the fight to our enemies. They get their morality and leadership from the likes of Ted Kennedy whose past treasonous activities are now coming out.
If you want a Jimmy Carter economy and a military as beaten down and dejected as the Post Vietnam military, then stay home on Election Day and the Democrats will cheerfully deliver that punishment to you. I can’t because I have to look in the mirror the next day. I don’t want to see the face of someone that failed carry out his most important duty as a citizen of the United States of America. Nor, do I want to see the face of someone that failed to vote while an American Soldier faced death on my behalf.
Copyright © J. D. Pendry 2006