Wanted: A Grip on Reality

Looks like the dems and the liberals have finally lost any grip on reality they ever had. The recent hate filled rantings of Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, et al have taken politics to a new low. Yeserday, Al Gore totally lost all touch with reality, before another hateful group, MoveOn. Al did his best impression of Dr. Demento, Howie Dean, all that was missing was Al frothing at the mouth. Below are some re-actions to all of this. - Sailor

DEMS' INSULTS JUST MIGHT ADD INJURY - TO THEM

By DEBORAH ORIN
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New York Post

May 27, 2004 -- BOY, is it getting ugly out there as very top Democrats broadcast their visceral and intense personal hatred for President Bush.
Al Gore yesterday ranted at Bush as "the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon." House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has called him "incompetent." Democratic chief Terry McAuliffe claimed he was "AWOL" from the National Guard.

Sen. Ted Kennedy — Kerry's top campaign ally — claims the Abu Ghraib prison abuse shows Saddam Hussein's torture chambers "reopened under U.S. management."

Bush-hating billionaire George Soros, funding anti-Bush ads, compared the president to Hitler. But mostly, other Democrats, like nominee-to-be John Kerry, seem to be cheering them on, not rebuking them. In fact, Kerry couldn't resist a snide personal dig when Bush tumbled off his bicycle over the weekend and got scraped up.

"Did the training wheels fall off?" zinged Kerry — who, as it happens, fell off his own mountain bike a few weeks ago.

Kerry aides tried to claim that crack was off-the-record but anyone who makes a dig like that has to know it will leak — and it was nasty enough to prompt Chicago's Democratic mayor, Richard Daley, to scold Kerry.

"When someone falls . . . you should not wish ill upon anyone," chided Daley, who also scraped his knees in a bike tumble. "You see too much hate."



Republicans have gone after Kerry hard — one Internet video morphed him into a cicada and Commerce Secretary Don Evans said he looks "too French" — but there hasn't been the same level of snide, very personal attacks from top Republicans.

Republicans have gone all-out after Kerry's personal character, but they've done it by using issues rather than personal epithets to paint him as a flip-flopper.

"You're seeing Democrats fall into the same trap that Republicans did with Bill Clinton — personalizing and demonizing," said a Democratic aide.

Others Dems insist the Bush attacks just tell it like it is. But they might want to ponder whether the personal tone of attacks on Bush helps explain why Kerry is stalled and tied in polls despite six weeks of nonstop bad news for Bush.




Gore demands six resignations


By Amy Fagan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Citing what he called "arrogance, willfulness and bungling" by President Bush in his foreign policy, Al Gore yesterday blamed flawed policies for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and said six administration officials should resign because of the Iraq situation.
In a fiery speech at New York University — sponsored by the political action committee of the liberal group MoveOn.org — the former vice president called for the resignations of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George J. Tenet, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas J. Feith and Stephen A. Cambone, both undersecretaries of defense.


Mr. Gore told a cheering crowd that the Bush foreign policy was "a disaster" and that this group of six was responsible, as were the president and vice president.
A spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign said Mr. Gore's speech was "outside of the mainstream" and "fails to recognize the seriousness" of the war on terror. "Al Gore today, acting on behalf of the Kerry campaign, delivered an extremely angry, factually inaccurate political attack, filled with pessimism and defeatist rhetoric," said spokesman Steve Schmidt.
Mr. Gore also said that the prisoner-abuse scandal is a direct result of the attitude and policies of an arrogant administration that rejects any check on its power.
"What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by 'a few bad apples.' It was the natural consequence of the Bush administration policy that has dismantled ... wise constraints and has made war on America's checks and balances," he said.
Mr. Gore said the administration is guilty of ignoring the Geneva Conventions with regard to Iraq, rejecting military leaders' assessment of troop numbers, denying soldiers adequate tools and failing to plan to prevent looting and lawlessness there.
He said Mr. Bush has "created more anger and righteous indignation" against Americans than any other U.S. leader, because of his "contempt for any person, institution or nation who disagrees with him."
The problem began, Mr. Gore said, with the administration's new foreign policy of pre-emption and domination.
A Republican National Committee memo pointed out that Mr. Gore in 1998 had urged national unity against Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion last year. "[I]f you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons?" Mr. Gore had asked.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gore heaped praise on Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry, but said the Massachusetts Democrat shouldn't have to provide his own detailed plan for the Iraq situation until after he wins the election because too many things could change in Iraq between now and then.
Mr. Kerry begins an 11-day focus on foreign policy and national security today.

Good idea on the Iraq plan Al, since Kerry has no plan. - Sailor