Why Destroy Bush?
Because It’s Easy To Be A Loser
February 4, 2003
One of the more apparent truths of life is the old adage that it is easier to go downhill than uphill. Similar incantations observe that breaking something is easier than putting it back together, that being stupid is easier than being smart and that being unfit is easier than being fit.
Perhaps it is for the very reason that being sub-standard is so pathetically easy that many losers work overtime to ensure that their lessers surround them. After all, misery loves company and the miserable love the even-more-miserable the most.
There is nothing new about the pathos of vandalism. And the vandalism of the human spirit is the supreme act of self-loathing. Colloquially, it is a manifestation of the old, “If I can’t have it than nobody can,” meanness. It is a petty jealousy of the soul.
There is nothing that irritates the abscess of self-loathing more than the juxtaposition of those that are comfortable with themselves. The insecure hate the secure and losers hate winners.
Perhaps the reason that George W. Bush induces the bile-spewing vitriol of the liberals is more their problem than his. The President’s commanding presence and performance certainly can induce incontinent youthful episodes for those less secure. The confusion this President creates for those who awake in sodden beds every morning might be explained by the man himself and the company he keeps.
Nothing illustrates the yin and yang of this nation’s state of leadership more than the odd contrast on the House floor during the State of the Union address.
Starting with President Bush, we find a man who was educated at Yale and Harvard, earned his flight wings as a Convair F-102A "Delta Dagger" pilot (one of the most challenging fighter aircraft to master) and...who has a stable marriage to his first and only wife. This is a President who, when confronted by the reality of unprecedented terrorism, is actually taking clear action (the previous President spent more government time and money chasing Bill Gates than Osama bin Laden).
The Vice President, Richard B. Cheney, has a distinguished resume in both the public and private sectors that is too long to itemize. If he is known for anything, it is his reputation for intelligence, character and discretion. He has been married to his high school sweetheart for an unblemished 38+ years.
Secretary of State Colin Powell worked his way up the ladder in life in an unquestionably dignified fashion. With both Bachelors and Masters degrees, Powell fought with a distinguished record in Viet Nam. This son of Jamaican immigrants went on to become a four star General and be awarded two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President’s Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal. He has been unwaveringly married to his sweetheart Alma since 1962.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a Princeton graduate (academic and NROTC scholarships) who became a naval aviator and flight instructor. Again, this is a man with a public and private sector resume too long and distinguished to itemize. Some highlights include a Presidential Chief of Staff, the youngest Secretary of Defense in history, four terms in Congress and U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In addition to being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Secretary Rumsfeld has been in a stable marriage for over 46 years.
Former Stanford University Provost Dr. Condoleezza Rice is the President’s National Security Advisor. Dr. Rice graduated high school at the age of 15 and earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974 (at age 19); her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. Again, this is a person with a distinguished and voluminous resume. Additionally, Dr. Rice began piano studies at age 3 and took up competitive figure skating in high school (rising at 4:30 am to practice before school).
Now, moving to the other side of the political aisle, we start the yin with Senator Edward Kennedy. Kennedy was educated at Harvard and graduated after receiving a one-year suspension for cheating (academic fraud). He is best known as the responsible (drunk?) driver who contributed to the death (murder?) of Mary Jo Kopechne during a dalliance from his marriage at Chappaquiddick in 1969 (he was divorced from his first wife in 1982).
During the State of the Union Address, Senator Kennedy sat with a sour-puss staring into his lap at what some claim to have been a pint of Hagan-Daz while the President spoke of building a defense for the American people against ballistic missiles, liquidating the threat of terrorism against the American people and obliging the Congress to control spending for the benefit of the American people. Kennedy did applaud for HIV-Aids funding for the African people and freedom for the Iranian people.
Also solemnly seated was ex-majority leader of the Senate, Democrat Thomas Daschle. Daschle’s political career commenced in 1978 when he, with the help of his first wife who helped him ring 40,000 doorbells to unseat an incumbent by 14 votes, was elected to Congress. By 1984, Tom had divorced his first wife, with whom he had three children, and married an ex-Miss Kansas who is a lobbyist in the Halls of Congress. Although any claims of impropriety between a paid lobbyist and one of the most powerful Democratic Senators are denied, how should the average person view the ethics of a restaurant reviewer being married to the owner of a restaurant supply house?
Moving on to a rather glum Democratic Senator John Kerry, we find a Presidential aspirant bewitched by self-aggrandizement. The Senator does have the distinction of being awarded a Silver Star during a combat operation in Viet Nam that somehow he filmed for posterity. Kerry is also known for having had cosmetic facial surgery which some say was for telegenic purposes. The Senator asserts that his surgery was to correct a bite problem and not for purposes of vanity. He has a letter from his physician to that affect (O.J. Simpson has a letter from a jury that states his innocence). Senator Kerry is married to 57-varieties heir Teresa Heinz after ending his former marriage of 12 years.
And then there is Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi who sat through the President’s address giggling with less maturity and worse manners than a teenager. Her single greatest response to the President’s address was to fight terrorism by redistributing taxpayer wealth from those who pay taxes to those who don’t.
On the one side is the Bush team with vision, proven leadership skills and a logical plan of action. One the other side of the isle is pessimism, rhetoric and pettiness. The most consistent response from the Democrats to any proposal by the President is name-calling. The Democratic response to the President’s vision for the American economy is to claim that his economic plan is a shrouded conspiracy promoting, “massive tax cuts for the wealthy.” The Democratic response for the President’s plan to protect Americans from the reality of terrorism is to further bloat the bureaucracy with yet more unionized federal employees while trusting to the good intentions of Saddam Hussein.
Although it is hard to see in such gloomy environs, the best summation of the Democratic vision (or lack thereof) is hopelessness, inaction and a growing dependency on the inefficiency of big government. It seems that the Democrats live by the credo that no problem can ever be solved, they can just be maintained, a.k.a. methadone. Why overcome adversity when, with a bit of glibness, you just leave the problem unresolved and move on. Well, misery does love company.
Hey, I would be unsettled also if all I could do was name-call and hissy-piss in opposition to a well reasoned and articulate plan of action. It must be maddening to be surrounded by so much security from such an insecure venue. So, since the President and his team leave so many of the less-fit in the trauma of psychologically tormented shadows, I guess Bush must be demonized. But, it doesn’t take many nanoseconds of synapse crossing to decide which team is the best bet for America’s future. What the hell, an elephant can carry more than a jackass any day and they are smarter to boot.
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