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Special to The North Country Gazette
Today's Democrat party is determined to recover the power it lost over the past 25 years. Not at the ballot box, but in the jury box. Since 1980, the Democrats have been unable to win national elections. No, I didn't sleep through Bill Clinton's eight years, but face it. He didn't run as a Democrat. Bill Clinton was a "new" Democrat. He was a charter member of the DLC which was designed to push the Democrat party away from the Left and toward the center.
Democrats are leftists. Moveon.org, Howard Dean, Al Franken and Janeane Garafalo are the real face of the Democrat party. The 2005 version of Al Gore, not the 1984 version, is the real face of the Democrat party. They are distrustful of capitalism, see individuals as powerless victims, and consider Islamic terrorists to be less of a threat than corporate robber barons. To them, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is the land of the victim and the home of oppressed workers.
THAT is why Democrats consistently lose elections. Americans don't see themselves as victims and, thus, don't identify with Democrats. Americans, as a rule, are positive and see this nation as great and worthy of its blessed position in the world. As a result, Democrats, instead of changing their message, have sought to change the image of Republicans.
In the eyes of Democrats, if they can prove Republicans to be criminals who only care about helping multinational thieves and slumlords, then the masses will feel victimized and run into the benign, caring arms of Democrat protectors.
That is why the Plame case really matters. Do you think the Democrats want to protect the CIA? If so, I urge you to Google "the Church Commission". Do you think Tom DeLay's actions are without precedent in Texas politics? If so, check and see how Texas Democratic PACs were spending money in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
The bottom line is that Democrats have nothing to offer the American public, so they must eliminate their opponents or successfully demonize them. It is a strategy based, not on moral outrage or strength, but on political desperation.
Since 2001, the Democrats have tried one pseudo-scandal after another. So far, nothing has stuck, so they keep raising the stakes. They can't help it. These are the same people that turned a funeral into a cross between a tent revival and a professional wrestling event. Complete with bad guys to boo.
They are the students of the 1960s who can't accept that the nation didn't continue down their path to a worldwide commune. Do they think that maybe their ideas were wrong? No, they merely think the American people are too stupid to recognize their wisdom.
They have, though, finally recognized that the American people will never, in a battle of ideas, agree with them. Therefore, they believe that if they create another Watergate, then the American people will hail them as saviors and restore them to their rightful place.
10-21-05
Steven Ward is an attorney in Madisonville, Tenn.
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