Nasty nonsense from the GOP, Dems cry about it

Picked up off Google news.

Dems have to stop crying and get their act together....

"The Democrats who would be president are fuming over a TV ad the Republican National Committee is running in Iowa, where the nominating caucuses are near."

"The Democrats' anger is understandable, but the ad is doing them a service. It makes plain, and inescapable, the challenge their nominee will have to meet if he is to have something better than the proverbial snowball's chance of contesting President Bush's reelection."...

<http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4238022.html>

Terrorism is the GOP's new communism. The party ran against Democrats for 40 years by claiming they were soft on communism. Now the charge is soft on terrorism.

It is not enough for the Democratic contenders to pound on the president's assorted missteps and misrepresentations in the Iraq War. An increasing number of Americans share that unease, but the terrorist threat remains real -- and the abiding question is how it can best be confronted, contained and defeated.

William Schulz says junk slogans like "Regime change at home" and "No blood for oil" mask a liberal "failure to give necessary attention, analysis and strategizing to the effort to counter terrorism and protect our fundamental right to security."

And the latter is really what many Americans want to "guard" even to the detriment of millions around the world.

The Right, and many confused folks in the Middle, think that America somehow has the right to lord it's will over any country it wants to, to steal resources, to topple governments, all for our "lifestyle".

Well guess what. We do NOT have a right to this lifestyle. We have a right to survive and defend ourselves but that does not equate sustaining a level of comfort and convenience regardless of it's effect on the world around us.

It is crucial that we define this carefully, and clarify the difference between legitimate self defense and guarding a gluttonous lifestyle. Don't let the Right confuse the two, which they do with intent.

Americans want more and more while paying less and less. Simple as that.

As the current reigning global empire, the USA is perhaps at its zenith. While perhaps unassailable militarily, we are very vulnerable economically.

I'm sick of Democrats allowing themselves to be painted as anti-American.