The fatal mistake the Democrats keep making is that they do not seem to understand a simple fact. While it is true that the electorate frowns on weakness and will not support a candidate they take to be soft, they don’t particularly care whether your toughness comes through on this topic or that.
Leaving aside political correctness for a moment, a candidate can get a lot of mileage out of challenging their opponents’ manhood. For example, a candidate that loudly and consistently responds to al-Qaeda talk with admonitions not to wet your pants…not to be a simpering bedwetting pantywaist…is going to sound like the tougher of the two candidates.
Don’t get me wrong…I’m not arguing for more macho rhetoric in politics. There is more appropriate language for making these points than allusions that your opponent is gay, a woman, or otherwise unfit for office. I like bedwetter. I like coward. Pick your own insult.
The point I’m making is that the proper response to a campaign of fear is to denigrate those that are easily frightened. A candidate that tells the people that they are not afraid sounds stronger than a candidate that tells people they should be afraid.
If the President asks for the right to listen to our phones calls without a warrant because the world is so scary, the proper response is to tell him to grow up and act like he has a pair (or whatever language conveys the point best). It’s the same thing you tell your children when they’re afraid to get on a bike or step into the batter’s box, or dive into the deep end of the pool.
We’d send our troops into harm’s way to defend our rights, but this President wants to take our rights away on the mere threat of a terrorist attack. That’s not tough, that’s not courage, that’s not how strong men act.
George W. Bush is a bedwetter that wants to turn us into a nation of bedwetters. And the Democrats are even worse because they’re afraid of a bedwetter. They’re afraid to point out that only a coward would give away his rights without a fight…on the mere threat of a fight.
It doesn’t take a man to point this out. It takes someone that is actually tough. And, as I look around, I don’t see anyone tough. Our politicians are a bunch of scaredy-cats.
