These are strange times.  A Democrat party "insurgency" that started out as antiwar and violently anti-Bush winds up being more Bush than Bush, if we are to believe all the Kerry rhetoric.  Republicans look like Democrats, and Democrats look like Republicans on the fiscal scene.  What are we as people supposed to make of all this? 

 

I am quite depressed by the whole scene over here.  I sense the country has not been this divided since the Vietnam war, or maybe even the civil war.  I'm actually kinda surprised that we don't see the demonstrations like we did during Vietnam.  Maybe we have grown up....  Or maybe it is the volunteer Army, as opposed to the draft Army. However, I get the feeling that if Bush wins, the Democrats will make it absolutely intolerable and we may yet see some demonstrations.  In that respect I would suffer a Kerry presidency -  I am sure we can survive him.  And I feel that he will probably win. 

 

The problem with Kerry is that you have, really, absolutely no idea where he stands.  His stances on the issues of war and terrorism are in stark contradiction to his former life, and even to many recent statements.  My liberal friends parrot all his most recent statements, without any retrospective at all.  Don't they realize this should make them Bush supporters?  I am quite stunned by all this.  Have these people no memory at all??  Have they no "gratitude."

 

Maybe gratitude is too highly rated.  No liberal will give Bush credit for his vision.  Bush, with his values and clear vision, was most likely the only one who could have taken that step [invading Iraq] - certainly no Democrat, or no pure politician, would have.  They would have waited forever on the UN, probably in vain.  Maybe that is all Bush was capable of doing, and we need somebody else to finish it. But I feel in their gut the Democrats are jealous.  Clinton is simply despondent that he is not president during these times, that he had to face Monica Lewinsky instead of Bin Laden and Saddam.  They will not forgive Bush for preempting their historical right to carry out their agenda of the liberal world view.  Kennedy sets the stage, Reagan and Bush get to actually carry it out. 

 

Our only hope then is that Kerry will come to realize how important the mission that Bush stumbled into really is.  He may not be able to see this until he is in office.  We can hope, can't we?? 

 

My only guidance on this is Churchill, again.  He was such the right instrument for the war times, but he was probably the wrong instrument for the peacetime.     But we are not yet in peacetime are we...

 

Oh well......

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