Klein on "The Values Gap"
Good to see Joe Klein displaying uncharactaristic common sense regarding the disconnect between the Democrats and the American people on questions of religion and values.
The following, though, contains more bologna than a butcher's window: "After all, the Democrats took flagrantly responsible stands on the two most important issues of the election: in favor of muscular multilateralism abroad and fiscal responsibility at home."
There was nothing "muscular" about John Kerry's flaccid desire to sacrifice our national interests in order to let the irresolute, generally naive, viscerally anti-American, and congenitally ineffectual consensus of world opinion dictate American foreign policy. Further, the cheap shot about "fiscal responsibility" is silly; discretionary spending has actually decreased under the Bush administration from where it was under Bill Clinton, every wartime president in our history has run a deficit- and despite his cooked numbers, the programs Kerry proposed would have sent that deficit to the moon.
Perhaps, in addition to their difficulty in connecting with the American people on moral matters, Klein needs to consider his own and his party's utter inability to make any but the silliest of arguments for their own candidate- and any but the most personally abusive and subjective arguments against the guy who just waxed their butts at the polls.
The following, though, contains more bologna than a butcher's window: "After all, the Democrats took flagrantly responsible stands on the two most important issues of the election: in favor of muscular multilateralism abroad and fiscal responsibility at home."
There was nothing "muscular" about John Kerry's flaccid desire to sacrifice our national interests in order to let the irresolute, generally naive, viscerally anti-American, and congenitally ineffectual consensus of world opinion dictate American foreign policy. Further, the cheap shot about "fiscal responsibility" is silly; discretionary spending has actually decreased under the Bush administration from where it was under Bill Clinton, every wartime president in our history has run a deficit- and despite his cooked numbers, the programs Kerry proposed would have sent that deficit to the moon.
Perhaps, in addition to their difficulty in connecting with the American people on moral matters, Klein needs to consider his own and his party's utter inability to make any but the silliest of arguments for their own candidate- and any but the most personally abusive and subjective arguments against the guy who just waxed their butts at the polls.
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