Democrats Losing the Will to Fight GWOT?

According to this RCP op-ed, that's clearly what Ed Koch thinks:
We are losing our fighting spirit as a result of the fighting between Republicans and Democrats on just how to prosecute the war. The President calls the war on terror "the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century, and the calling of our generation." The President's speech was attacked, as usual, by a number of Democratic party leaders with Senator Ted Kennedy in the lead.

One of the worst attacks on the President came from Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, himself a presidential candidate in 2008. He demanded that the President stop referring to those engaged in terrorist attacks against us and others as Islamic fascists. He said, "Fascist ideology...doesn't have anything to do with the way global terrorist networks think or operate, and it doesn't have anything to do with the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world who practice the peaceful teachings of Islam."
This was a good week for Russ Feingold in terms of solidifying his support amongst the ani-war liberals that are the dominant block of voters in Democratic primaries. It was a bad week for Feingold amongst the other 75 percent of the voting public. His statement that President Bush shouldn't use the term Islamic fascists is dramatically out of touch with mainstream voters.

It's also disgusting that Ted Kennedy lambasted President Bush's speech Monday night:
"The President should be ashamed of using a national day of mourning to commandeer the airwaves to give a speech that was designed not to unite the country and commemorate the fallen but to seek support for a war in Iraq that he has admitted had "nothing" to do with 9/11. There will be time to debate this President's policies in Iraq. September 11th is not that time."
It's Ted Kennedy who should be ashamed for all the diatribes against the war, including this statement. Ted Kennedy's diatribes have been spread across the U.S. by the Agenda Media, who'll do anything to cast President Bush in a bad light.
But what about the tens of millions who are terrorists and want to kill us? Does he have a description for them? The media rarely call those engaged in acts of terrorism "terrorists," preferring to refer to them simply as "militants."
These questions clearly show Mayor Koch's dislike for anti-war progressives like Feingold. It's nice seeing Feingold getting called out for his pandering to the Kos Kidz crowd. Unfortunately, Feingold isn't interested in being a serious policymaker. He's only interested in pandering to these anti-war nuts in order to make a presidential run.



Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:30 PM

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