I'm voting Republican

[Urbane Guerrilla]

There really wasn't a shock to GWB's reelection -- after all, he got 3.5M more popular votes. It was also manifest that the Dem standardbearer Kerry hadn't the leadership or the vision to guide the country to a successful conclusion of a war started by other people, who desire to be Americans' enemies above all else and don't mind saying so.

The senior Democratic Party leadership is useless in prosecuting this war, and in time of war we need a war fighter in the Oval Office, not a war loser. South Vietnam, after all, did fall specifically because the Democrats in Congress said let it drop, no? Cut off all support in 1973, did they not? The domino fell in mid 1975. And the Dems continue belying their very name a generation later, never squashing tyranny to replace it with democracy and more liberal sociopolitical forms. Only the Republicans have shown that kind of vision; the Libertarian Party one day may do so, even if I have to found a school of LP policy thought myself. The Republicans are actively trying to shrink the world's Non-Integrating Gap region, while the Democrats have never even attempted it. One group here has a strategy and a long view, the other doesn't.

The Dem Party reluctance to win this war leaves me thinking there are just two kinds of Democrats worth more than a pitcher of warm spit. One is those registered Democratic voters in their country's uniform; the other is Senator Joe Lieberman, whose party has so thoroughly abandoned him that he's now identified as "Independent" in news captions.

What I'm saying is if you've got a war, particularly against a tyranny, you might as well be a hawk if you want to be on the side of the angels.