Reply #4: It was over the top... [View All]

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and strategically a very big mistake.

Attacking Bush with something like this is fine for anonymous blogs; many people feel Stark was right on the money about the guy's callousness, but..but..

For a member of Congress to actually say that, and have it committed, not only to the digital record but in a historical document such as the Congressional Record, where it is now enshrined for all time, was short-sighted and will come back to haunt us.

A giggling, imperious mental midget who sends young people off to war and cracks a gut every time the word comes back that a bunch of them got their heads blown off (great visual, right?) makes great red meat to throw to the masses, but is totally uncalled for and classless from somebody in our Legislature.

With that ill-advised rant, Stark has just let Larry Craig completely off the hook! Way to go. Yay! You called Bush a bad name and deeply insulted him, in the most public way possible. Ha, ha. You sure showed him. You now have people on blogs telling you how great you are, what a hero, but my question is, "How do you feel, now that you've just given the R Team's media specialists a weapon, and a big one at that, to beat us over the head with in the real contest: the General Election for President of the United States.?"

Not even during Vietnam did anybody insult Johnson like that; that was for the protesters in the streets. Not even during Watergate did any official member of our government get up and accuse Nixon of giggling like some American King Lear, and dancing a jig when he heard about Cambodians being blown to hell whenever bombs were dropped in secret operations over there.

Folks, it's bad enough when links are made to the more radical and foul-mouth rants here; we take it as a private club; so do the posters at freerepublic with their posts. It's not. Just as we need to seek out and link to the more radical RW's postings over there, they're going to do it to us, trying to define us on their terms.

If Mother Theresa had been a Democrat, they would've figured out a way to claim that she had been a whore in Chicago before she had moved to India, and that in reality, most of the kids she helped where her own illegitimate children!

If I was running the show over there, I would now package and position Bush as a gentleman of the old school, who now will get complete media coverage as he defends his personal honor!

Stark has just given Bush the chance to appear manly in front of the world, with the American flag behind him and declare how many sleepless nights he's had to endure, thinking about those all those poor kids, over there, true patriots who have paid the ultimate price in defense of our way of life.

Given that politics requires cold-blooded and cynical people who have the ability to debate both sides of any given issue, then it stands to reason that Stark was given the job to be the designated hitter here by the leadership.

Why? Well, maybe because the leadership is getting feedback from the ad-hoc, real-time polls, namely these websites, and are getting worried when they discern the End the War Now/Impeach Bush/Cheney crowd are getting restless and threatening not to vote in the general election.

Insulting the President of the United States (forget the person filling the slot, think of the position, goddamn it!) in public is the leadership's response to criticism that they haven't done enough to stop the War in Iraq, nor have they done anything to Impeach Bush/Cheney and frog march them to the Hague to stand trial for war crimes and then to be shot by firing squad. As if any of that, amounting to a coup d'etat, has the slightest chance of actually happening.

Okay, by doing that, they get some high-fives here, and giggles at how, wow, Stark really dissed Chimpy McHitler, but tell me exactly how that will now stop the War in Iraq and how it's gone one freaking milimeter towards Impeachment?

I'm sure the R Team is rubbing their hands and laughing about this: "Wow, is that best you got?" and "Gee, thanks for alienating many people on both sides, Congressman, by illustrating what We (with talent on loan from Godddd) have been saying all along; anybody with a D next to their name is a classless, cowardly fool who hates America."

Doesn't anybody get it? Can't anybody here play this game!?

Shut down the government. Close the checkbook. Silly name-calling, and stooping to impugn personal integrity is totally counter-productive. That is right up there with Preston Brooks beating Charles Sumner half to death with his cane on the floor of the Senate.

I'm not normally inclined towards conspiratorial thinking, but, given how machivellian politics is, I wonder if Stark got a big fat check for this from the R Team!

This is going to come back ten-fold to haunt us folks, it's going to put the leadership in a position where they have to repudiate what Stark said and ask for a public censure, just as with the MoveOn.org controversy.

If they do, they're going to look weak, spineless and foolish by both sides.

If they don't, they're going to look anti-American, because the OFFICE of President, ( and not G. W. Bush, who is merely a transient occupant), is identified, throughout the world, with and as AMERICA.

It was a strategic misstep, and makes me wonder who the hell is actually running the show, and why can't they even go to the bathroom without having to poll first?