Jewish World Review Dec. 13, 2005 / 12 Kislev, 5766

Defeat from the jaws of victory

By Joe Scarborough

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Have Democrats once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory? Too early to tell but Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are clearly running scared because of liberal chatter the RNC is labeling as "Retreat and Defeat."

Democratic leader Howard Dean says the Iraq War is a lost cause. Not true. But even if it were, I would warn Democratic candidates that they needed to bite their tongue before telling voters US troops can't beat a bunk of jackals who delight in blowing themselves up.

John Kerry recently let it be known that he believed US soldiers were engaging in acts of terror in Iraq.

Not a smart move for a man who lost the 2004 campaign in part because he once accused our men in uniform of committing war crimes.

The Senate's number two Democrat, Dick Durben, compared US troops to Nazis, Stalinist thugs and the Khmer Rouge — three of the 20th Century's deadliest forces.

Good L-rd!

When will my Democratic friends rise up and stick a sock in their leaders' mouths? Only the Democratic Party of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi could succeed in making today's Republican Party look the only choice in 2006.

And that is exactly what they are doing.

Earlier, Democrats trotted out Medal of Honor winner Daniel Inouye to attack the President. The US Senator from Hawaii blasted the "GOP attack machine" and called the Republicans' latest TV ad "shameful."

"It may improve the President's political fortunes," the Senator said," but the American people and our troops will pay the price. I hope that President Bush realizes how shameful it is to play politics when what we really need is leadership, and that he will direct his Party to take down this ad immediately."

Playing politics with war? Hurting the troops?

Maybe it's just me, but if I were Senator Inouye, I would be more worried about what my own party leaders were saying than what some GOP ad is saying ten months before an election.

Voters will not remember a 2005 TV ad when they go to the voting booth next year. But they will remember which party championed "retreat and defeat."

It's time for the Democratic Party to wake up, get disciplined and start acting like an organization that is once again interested in being relevant.

What they are doing now is no way to regain power.