Posted by
Sanity 102 on Sunday, August 19, 2007 8:09:11 PM
"AS EVERY REPUBLICAN knows, Democrats are short-sighted in their views on national security, pursuing antiwar arguments that are bound to come back and haunt them politically. This was the case with the clamor among Democrats to pull out of Vietnam and may be the case now as well with their calls for American troops to flee Iraq. The result of this antiwar noisemaking is a reputation for weakness on national security.
Yet Republicans are doing the same thing on another issue, trading away long-term gain for the immediate joy of pleasing voters who may (or may not) decide the winner of the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. That issue is immigration. "
The above is from Fred Barnes of Weekly Standard--and I suspect, his article will be forward around the blogosphere.http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13996&R=114A2EF79
Unfortunately, I believe the following will happen:
The talk will get more vile as "people of principle" need to justify their turning their back on the only VIABLE party that wanted to win the WOT.
In 2008, when the WH has a Democrat Commander in Chief...SOME bloggers will get the picture that the "price" of this particular hill to die on is more than they wanted to pay. They will slowly...quietly begin to make plans to vacate.
In 2009, when the funds are cut from our troops...still more will abandon the indefensible hill.
In 2010, when the Dems put in a "thank you" REAL amnesty to their new Hispanic voting block and the Democratic WH signs it...the last remaining hold outs will...blame Bush and Karl Rove and the GOP "for not doing "something" when they were in power".
In 2011, after numerous of "tests", another 9/11 will hit...and then all those who put THEIR border issue above the war, will...tell everyone who will listen..."I ALWAYS supported Bush on the War you know...I may have disagreed with some things but on the WAR, I was right there with him all the way....a good, patriotic American...of principle."
And America will have a GOP Congress and a GOP WH...and then somebody will bring up illegal immigration...