It appears that mainstream Americans are catching onto MoveOn.org and rejecting their brand of political extremism.A recent Gallup poll shows that after all the testimony and the MoveOn hit-job, General Patraeus is both better known and better liked.
According to the Sept. 14-16, 2007 poll, 61% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Petraeus, while 22% have an unfavorable opinion...
Other nation-wide polls show what these supposed anti-war progressives feared most: the September Iraq report card didn't swing public support against the war. In some cases, it appears Patraeus even changed some minds, particularly on Capital Hill.
By a wide margin of 72-25, even the U.S. Senate condemned Move On's horrible ad.
They had to; the tide is turning not only in Iraq, but in our public square. Americans want to win and protect our freedom from terrorist thugs. We know that a defeat in Iraq will lead to more defeat elsewhere. You don't have to ask General Patraeus. We've know this since General Patton.
The irony is that MoveOn is going to find out what the Scoop already knows: the liberal progressive senators they backed in the last election are a bunch of weak-kneed, political opportunists. This includes our own Senator Jon Tester, who is reinventing how to play both sides of the war politics fence. Not quite the straight talk he promised and we expected.
Like Tester, these folks will continue to ditch MoveOn whenever voters rankle at MoveOn's radical tactics.
This is a case where politics DOES NOT make strange bedfellows.
We all first experienced this in high school -- losers hang out together. Who didn't hang out in the smoking section because it looked like it might be cool? And it was...for about a minute.
Lefty Democrats and MoveOn are in disarray. Their supposed "anti-war" campaign has been revealed for what it really is -- a defeatist, selfish political ploy to gain the upper hand in the American game of partisan politics. It has nothing to do with what is right for our country, our soldiers and the Iraqi people.
The Real Scoop: The big political threat of the Iraq war is not a long-term Republican exile if we are to be defeated; it is a long-term Democrat rebuke if we are to win some measure of victory.
And it will spell the end, at least politically, for progressive war-opportunists everywhere.
Unfortunately, we are all apt to hang out with losers. But most of us wise up and "move on."
1 comments:
Well said. There is nothing I can say that could even do justice to your post, so I'll just leave it at that. Well said.
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