Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Handling the Truth

I generally enjoy your comments, but no, the GOP does not "own national security, period". They posture. They teach. They scowl. They pretend and we pretend with them, because everyone wants to believe that the right is always there "up on that wall", ready for use - just break the glass, grab the might and sweep away evil.

Didn't turn out that way. The paradigm on which America stood tallest was created by those Americans pleased to call themselves democrats. The greatest generation had the golden advantage and blessed good fortune to have probably the greatest political leadership in history.

The cliche at the heart of the GOP says that progressives don't have what it takes to "handle the truth". Let's paraphrase from a different movie: what the democrats have, the GOP can't find; and what the GOP has, it used to have.

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