This pretty much reinforces everything I’ve been saying about how the “mainstream” gay leaders have joined forces with the “hate America first” crowd of Bush-bashers.

Just what on earth does this ranting prove about Mr. Ellner’s capabilites to be Manhattan Borough President?
Watch the nutty ad here.
UGH! Chad… please do something about this on Election Day, okay?
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com

In a comment to my latest post on media bias, a critic of this blog listed several of the president’s alleged ‘lies’ and in the process, managed to misrepresent much of what the president actually said. (As do many who accuse him of lying.) So often do leftists accuse the president of lying that the expression “Bush lied” has practically become the mantra of the moveon.org crowd. A google search of the expression yields well over 200,000 hits.
While leftists have accused the president of lying on multiple topics, they have focused on the statements the president made–before the liberation of Iraq–about that nation’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). To be sure, while, after Iraq’s liberation, U.S. troops and others have found numerous items, including missiles in Iraq that the Hussein had been obligated to destroy, they did not find large stockpiles of WMD. Because of that absence, the president’s critics call him a liar.
For the president to be a liar, he would have had to knowingly deceive the American people–indeed the people of the world–for he laid out his claims about Iraq in a speech to the United Nations on September 12, 2002. At the time, our troops had not yet entered Iraq while that nation’s then-tyrant wasn’t allowing United Nations inspectors in. We couldn’t fully determine wheher Iraq was living up to his obligations under 1991 Gulf War ceasefire as well as under various United Nations resolutions. (We do know that it was violating its obligations to let inspectors in — and to provide detailed reports of its weapons’ programs.) The president based his assessment on the best intelligence available at the time.
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They can’t win at the voting booths… their court-activism strategy only goes so far… but in cahoots with the liberal media, the Secular LibDems continue their tradition of trying to take down a Republican government through insidious means, not at the ballot box. Michael Barone says it is failing this time.
Bush bashing fizzles – TownHall.com

we can see the playing out of another, less reported story: the collapse of the attempts by liberal Democrats and their sympathizers in the mainstream media — The New York Times, etc., etc. — to delegitimize yet another Republican administration.
This project has been ongoing for more than 30 years.

By the way, Barone — a premier expert on American politics — agrees with a lot of what Dan (GayPatriotWest) said in his recent posting on Karl Rove. (The LA Times Does It Again – GayPatriotWest)
Barone:

Now the unsupported charges that “Bush lied” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have been rekindled via criticism of Karl Rove. A key witness for the Democrats and mainstream media was former diplomat Joseph Wilson. Unfortunately for his advocates, he turned out to be a liar. A year after his famous article appeared in The New York Times in July 2003 accusing Bush of “twisting” intelligence, the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a bipartisan report, concluded that Wilson lied when he said his wife had nothing to do with his dispatch to Niger, and Chairman Pat Roberts said that his report bolstered rather than refuted the case that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa. So despite the continuing credulousness of much of the press, it appears inconceivable at this point that Karl Rove will be charged with violating the law prohibiting disclosure of the names of undercover agents. The case against Rove — ballyhooed by recent Time and Newsweek cover stories that paid little heed to the discrediting of Wilson — seems likely to end not with a bang but a whimper.

-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com

Democrats are watching with glee as Bush’s job approval stays stuck below 50 percent. But a party that happily allies itself with the likes of moveon.org and many of whose leading members have lost the ability to distinguish between opposition to an incumbent administration and rooting for our nation’s enemies has got serious problems.

—Michael Barone (via Instapundit).

As Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean continues his rants against Republicans, I note how warmly some Democrats receive this man who did so poorly in their own party’s primaries and caucuses last year. It’s not just that many Democrats embrace the party chairman’s fiery rhetoric, it’s also that they practice it themselves. Powerline‘s Scott Johnson reports a car “sporting ‘Bush ’04/Sieg Heil’” at a recent Democratic fundraiser in Minnesota. We have all seen such bumper stickers and slogans. Indeed, Polipundit‘s Lorie Byrd wrote last month, “it isn’t big news when a Democrat compares a Republican to Hitler because they do it so often.”
I have long tried to understand this Democratic hatred of President Bush and the GOP. Bush-hatred has made Clinton-hatred of the 1990s appear tame by contrast. It was liberals in the MSM and Democrats who called President Clinton’s adversaries “Clinton-haters.” (In many cases with good reason.) Today, the president’s adversaries call themselves haters. Indeed, critics of the president have published such books as The Bush-Haters Handbook and The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya is Wrong About Everything. So, this morning, while reading Herman Melville‘s Moby-Dick, I thought I was reading about the obsession of the Dean-Hillary Clinton Democrats with our man W when I was reading about Captain Ahab’s obsession with the novel’s eponymous White Whale:

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning . . . Ahab did not fall down and worship it . . . but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

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In the interestingly-titled column, “10 reasons not to kill Bush,” for the Oregon Daily Emerald, University of Oregon student Jennifer McBride concludes that the vitriol of some Bush-haters makes her feel “ashamed to be a Democrat:”

I don’t hate President Bush. I dislike a lot of his administration’s choices, but I think he’s a good man doing a difficult job. As a leader, you’re always going to be hated. I am too often shocked by the vitriolic repulsion many people feel for our leader and America in general, especially because the loathing is often poorly informed. I’ve met people on this campus who see America as the worst human rights abuser in the world (unlike the angelic paradise of Cambodia) and people who sway liberal not because they actually know anything about issues but because it’s popular.
Liberalism has to be more than a college fad or a collection of loudmouths whose idiotic comments stir headlines. The rabid dislike some people feel for a man they’ve never even met makes me ashamed to be a Democrat.

While I can’t say that I share Ms. McBride’s politics, I do appreciate her commitment to a liberalism of ideas rather than one of following the crowd or hating the adversary. Let us hope that there are more college students like her–on both sides of the political aisle.
Hat tip: Drudge.

Noting that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has demanded an apology from a GOP official for bad-mouthing Democrats, Polipundit has provided some vintage, frothing-at-the-mouth, blinded-by-hatred Dean. Polipundit says it best: Pot, meet Kettle.
Hat tip: Dirty Harry.

While I enjoy her singing voice and her performances in many movies, particularly her three greats, “FUNNY GIRL“, “WHAT’S UP DOC?” and “THE WAY WE WERE,” I tend not to agree with Barbra Streisand‘s politics. Both of us, however, admire the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
That great woman once said that Israel “will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” We could paraphrase that to describe the state of civil discourse today in Washington. We will have civil discourse again in Washington when Democrats love their country more than they hate President Bush.
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