Will They Stop at Nothing?

or I need a Vacation

I'm not naive enough to think any Party is perfectly ethical; that’s why I don’t belong to a party. I support and vote for the party whose record and vision most closely matches my values. Right now that means the Republicans because they understand that there really is a war on terror; nothing else is as important. I happen to agree with them on most other issues as well, but not all. I support them wholeheartedly but if they change, or if they don't change and they should have, I'll vote for another party - as long as that party has a chance to win. There's no point in voting for a party that has no chance to win.

If there is no party that is perfectly ethical, there is also no American political party that approaches the level of perfidy of the Democrats. The Democrat's whole approach to the election process has me really aggravated. Aggravated and concerned. They seem willing to do anything, regardless of the consequences to the process, or to our country, in order to win "election".

I have never encountered anything like the level of unethical behavior the Democrats are displaying. It makes me ashamed to have once been a Democrat. The things that finally drove me away from the Democratic Party seem like trifles in comparison to the treachery they are perpetrating now. They have given up even the pretence of having something positive to say, and instead badger and threaten and complain and lie.

The Left knows their ideas can’t win for them so they lie about what they believe and what they will do if elected. They lie without shame, without the slightest compunction, relying on the left wing media to ignore it, or spin it into gold for them.

I believe that if you have to cheat to win, you've won nothing. Emptiness. There is no value in the struggle if you cheat. You've proved nothing except that you're not as good as your opponent; that your ideas have no merit. The fact that only you know that you cheated, or that no one can prove it, makes no difference. If you cheat you are a loser. The fact that you "won" does not make you a winner.

The last decade of Democrat lying, conniving, and obstructing has lead to the screeching crescendo of deceit we are experiencing today. Nothing short of a complete purging of the leadership and the ideology of their party could ever induce me to vote for a Democrat again. I don't believe a word they say. As an unquestioning Democrat in my youth I never felt this negatively about the Republicans during the height of Watergate.

I'm going on vacation for a few days; you might be able to tell that I need it. Here are a couple of essays by people who seem to be at about the same level of frustration with the Democrats that I am. The first one, by George Will, is a particularly good illustration of the corner liberalism has painted itself into. The second, by Charles Krauthammer, throws light on one of the most recent examples of just how far the Democrats are willing to go.

George Will: Liberals, Lawyers, And a Choice

Liberalism, having lost its ability to advance by persuasion, increasingly relies on litigation. In its flight from arenas of representation, liberalism has used the judiciary as its legislature. Hence the exultation of Ron Brown, then Democratic Party chairman, addressing an American Bar Association forum immediately after the 1992 election: "My friends, I'm here to tell you that the lawyers won."

The Democratic Party's love -- the word is too weak for the phenomenon -- for lawyers is expressed in countless courtesies, from blocking tort reform to the multiplication of laws and regulations that make it impossible to navigate life without a lawyer in tow. Not surprisingly, as of mid-September, lawyers were this year's leading political contributors, with 73 percent of their $132.4 million going to Democrats. In contrast, oil and gas interests, which Democrats demonize and Kerry reflexively deplored Wednesday evening, give 81 percent of their contributions to Republicans, but as of mid-September, their total to both parties was only $16.7 million.

Charles Krauthammer: Anything to get elected

In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately raising for personal gain false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.

Posting will be light, or nonexistent, while I'm gone. I look forward to returning with a fresh outlook, to a world with two ethical and dignified Parties with legitimate differences.

Well... at least with a fresh outlook.