"Dizzy Dean: Leader of the Nine Dwarfs"
Posted by Jim Rath
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Even my politically active Democrat friends cannot name all nine, or even come close. Grumpy, Sleepy, Dopey, Goofy, and Dizzy is about as far as they get, with Dizzy Dean being the best known.
As we Republicans in Hawaii used to say, ''It seems all the national Democrat Party has left is the 'West Wing' and Hawaii.'' One is a fictional TV show and the other Fantasy Island.
Hawaiians recently elected a Republican governor, so they are left to watch the boob tube and dream that socialism is marching forward unabated. To entertain the national minority party, work is underway to produce the sequel to the ''Walter Mondale Show.'' The plot and story line is obviously still in the development stage, but let’s see how far they have come.
First the planners are for raising taxes on everyone. Oops! The middle class won’t like that, so there’s a quick change and they will only tax the rich. The tax issue is set aside, while they try and decide exactly who the rich are.
Next they are against the war, but some voted in support of the war. Others, who had no vote to cast, expressed early support and Dizzy made endorsing comments on the record. However, (quick flip-flop here) now they no longer agree and are against the war. But, support the troops!
The flip-flops of the nine dwarfs make things even more confusing.
Now that we are in the Middle East, which was a mistake or simply not handled right, we should stay the course, put in more troops, and pull out completely. Saddam was caught, but we are not any safer. That is mostly true because Osama is still out there. Newsweek knows where he is and apparently so does President Bush, because he is holding him so that he can be arrested just before the election. Dizzy says Osama is innocent until proven guilty and we shouldn’t prejudge poor Osama, his worldwide confession not withstanding. Goofy Clark says he would have had Osama two years ago. Isn’t this about the time he was a four-star general and we were fighting in Afghanistan? Too bad he decided to keep his capture method secret back them!
Then there is the call to release transcripts of confidential meetings in the White House, but to keep secret those of Dizzy’s meetings. Dizzy is the dwarf who said that the difference between calling it a civil union and a marriage only mattered to people who were ''pretty religious.'' He is on his way to the South, or in his description, the land of where the issues are gays, guns, and God. He is headed there to get the votes of guys with confederate flags on their pick-up trucks, and he has recently said that he is going to do that by going down there and talking about Jesus. More specifically, his faith in Jesus.
Are you confused? Just think how the Democrats feel. Sleepy Kerry was the chosen cog in the Democrat machine that was supposed to challenge limp Dick Gepheart, skip past Squeaky Joe, and walk away with the primary. Goofy Clark parachuted in from the Clinton hot air balloon, former general and would be Osama catcher, had been told all kinds of ''secret stuff'' and seemed to have the same pension for the truth as his benefactors. His former military boss said he wouldn’t vote for Clark, who is a Democrat but says he would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had given him a requested meeting. In the real world, everyone’s respect for Karl’s judgment moved up a notch on that statement.
Thankfully, Witty Al keeps the debates entertaining while he tries to earn Jesse’s national spotlight. When the primary is over he will probably start some non-profit called ''Shove.'' There’s another flaky guy who seems to be using the whole process to get a date, or find a wife. You know that guy has fantasies about sex in the Oval Office and you know where he got them.
Then there is the young good looking southern used car salesman. You expect him to suddenly say, ''This one here is a real beauty. Runs like a clock, got all the bells and whistles, and not only does it have style, but it’s fast too! Why I caught every one of those ambulances I was chasing. What do I have to do to put you into this baby today?'' Full time plastic smile remaining intact.
The only commonality the nine dwarfs seem to share is the constant mantra of ''Hate Bush.'' This campaign of hate was started by Dizzy and spread by using the Internet, which his endorser invented. Not the Bill Bradley Internet, but the Al Gore Internet. I guess it’s a plan: Dizzy attacks Bush and the other eight attack Dizzy.
The original Democrat plan seems to have been to beat on the poor economy, but the economy is getting better. Most people never blamed Bush for the poor economy anyway. The average American figured 9/11 may have had something to do with that. More than a few imagine that if Gore were in office we would now be in the middle of a world wide depression, having meetings in the U.N. discussing terrorism and wondering if there really were terrorists in Afghanistan.
With the economy getting better, the nine dwarfs focused on the war--that is, the war in Iraq. The war in Afghanistan is over and here’s a news flash for the nine, so too is the war in Iraq! We won! Iraq is not Vietnam. In Vietnam we never took down the government, never rolled tanks into Hanoi. In Iraq we took down Saddam’s government, rolled into Baghdad, and have Saddam in custody. The war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq are over! We have troops in both places, as there is always a mopping up action. There were dead-enders killing American soldiers after WWII as well. As far as our troops being in Afghanistan and Iraq, we still have troops in Japan and Germany too.
There is still a war going on; the war on terror. I don’t think there are many leaders of countries around the world that have an interest in harboring terrorists any longer. I’ll bet more than a few could imagine a U.S. soldier shoving a tongue depressor in their mouths on worldwide TV.
The cogent question is what do any of the nine dwarfs offer Americans, past simple hatred? Higher taxes and bigger government? Capitulation and appeasement of our enemies? Turning over our sovereignty to the United Nations? Having meetings and doing studies?
The other question that the majority of Americans will ask is what did Bush do wrong? We were attacked and he fought back. The terrorists didn’t just hit a military target, they hit in a city and struck a financial nerve center of our nation and killed civilians. We struck quickly and decisively. The President and the rest of our government relied on our intelligence service (the one decimated by Clinton) to make our decisions. We used the best information available and the Democrats in Congress had exactly the same information and came to the same conclusion. No intelligence is 100% accurate, but the vast majority decided, better safe than sorry. It was the right choice.
Goofy Clark said we would have had Osama two years ago. Was that Rambo style? Bush told the military to use whatever resources needed and ''get ‘em.'' This is the same military that Goofy was a general in. The same military Clinton cut and cut and cut. The same military he refused to serve in.
Bush cut taxes and the economy are reacting to that and starting to boom. So what has Bush done wrong? The Democrats say that our civil liberties are threatened. Bush is trampling on the First Amendment, checking on the books you read. Really? I haven’t heard of that happening. Oh but it can, say the Democrats. I tell them: You have free speech, but you cannot yell ''fire'' in a crowed theater. The Democrats say that this is worse; it is eroding our freedoms. Okay, I agree. Let’s put the same restrictions we have on the Second Amendment on the First Amendment. Imagine licensing and permits required for the press? Well, that’s different. As all leftist wacko liberals know, the Second Amendment isn’t a ''real right.''
As the plot and story line of the sequel to the ''Walter Mondale Show'' unfolds, you get the feeling that you are not watching a selection process for which Democrats will challenge George Bush, but the takeover of the Democrat party by the extreme left. The country has changed, moved forward, and left the Democrat Party behind. We first saw this with the reduction in the capital gains tax. The Democrats in Congress had always fought any such reduction, until they discovered that over 50% of Americans were invested in the stock market. The class warfare the Democrats always engaged in stopped working as well, when the overall income of Americans increased. The unions are no longer the (lockstep and march) mindless vote the Democrat machine could count on. Our work force is more technical and better educated. The ''us and them'' mentality is fading.
The Democrat party became nothing more than a collection of a vast amount of special interest groups whose only commonality was holding its hand out to the government. The left-leaning socialist philosophy and agenda that once bound them together had become just another minority group within the party. Dizzy realized that this was still the largest of all the groups that made up his party and being driven by an ideology, were the most dedicated. He came out of the box saying he was from the Democrat wing of the Democrat Party. He had just the vehicle to contact and network with them--the Internet.
Dizzy is not just the front runner of the nine dwarfs, he is the hero of the socialist-leaning left. He has rescued his party from being the servant of the special interest groups and given them back their core political philosophy. Not a vote has been cast, but Dizzy has won. No other candidate has any group or groups with the passion and dedication of Dizzy’s supporters. The true believers that envision an American socialist state had been shoved into the background as the party moved to the center to stay alive. Dizzy brought them to center stage. Fed with a constant supply of hate-Bush rhetoric, the extreme left will hand Dizzy the nomination. Dizzy has already alluded to it and all other Democrat contenders know it; Dizzy’s supporters will not return to the closet and their support is not transferable.
The Democrat Party in America has only remained relevant by moving to the right, to the center, and still they have lost. All elected Democrats know that if they elect Dizzy and take a hard swing to the extreme left, that the party is over--the Democrat Party, that is.
The plot thickens as the deals are being discussed. The other eight envision that two of them will be able to broker the #1 and #2 spot if the votes fall a certain way and some drop out transferring their support. If they fall another way, Dizzy may be able to demand the support in exchange for the #2 spot. Regardless of what happens, this sequel will be a hell of a show!
With all the rhetoric Dizzy has spewed out, there is only one point where I agree him. He said that with George Bush as president the world is a very dangerous place!
That much is true … If you’re a terrorist!
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