The courage of conviction....(of convicts?....)

Fellow blogger Ceredwyn asked in a reply to my previous post why the Dems never seem to accept challenges to come on down and debate. She asked whether or not they had the courage of their own convictions.

There is not a single reason currently why the Democrats shouldn't have the courage of their own convictions. Right here, right now, they are winning based upon their own convictions. The only way to characterize the last two major elections is that they were a rout. Not a beating, not a shellacking, but a full-on all out rout. We weren't even in the game as far as they were concerned.

The Democrats walked all over the Conservatives and dismantled the Republican party with their stepped up heavy-handed assault. It's painful, but to ignore that bit of information would surely doom any future effort to regain the land and make it safe for the people who earned it.

So the Democrats are in charge... so much so that they can act with almost impunity in any impulsive way they see fit. Unborn babies a burden to their moms, no problem... yank 'em out. Someone making too much of a living and you feel pretty badly that you didn't have the opportunity/chance/ability/cajones/drive/intelligence/luck/illegal connections/drugs etc... to do the same? Hardly a concern in this day and age... we'll just tar and feather those miserable bastards for being successful.

A butterfly happen to land in a barren but oil-rich field somewhere? We'll bring to bear the full force of the aristocracy to ensure that that barren wasteland not contribute it's fair share to the common good. We'll protect that delicate eco-system from those horrid conservatives.

And so on....

They have the courage of their convictions to stretch the definition of what government is for to endless bounds unmolested by reality or sanity. They will kill the unborn, deprive the old and feeble, condemn the sane and shred the lives of the brave. They will declare failure even unto their own follies, but not with the same zeal.

So why would President Hussein accept Rush's invitation? Or to borrow my earlier phrase, "Why Rush when you don't have to?".

We all know that Rush would slice and dice Hussein to pieces. It's not a fair fight, because under the terms of the affair Hussein would be without his cadre to support him. Besides, Rush is a formidable presence, and while he isn't adorned as a superstar, he's surely more potent as a king of his media than Howard Stern.

The Hussein camp will NOT debate Rush. And the most intriguing reason is WHY they won't do it. Despite the fact that they have set him up on purpose as the head of the Republican party, they will resist all attempts to legitimize him by deigning to accept his offer.

In other words, they will use G.W. Bush Diplomatic Policy to isolate him until he agrees to talk to them on their terms.

Which, of course, is again, one more thing Hussein promised that he would do that he is renigging on... he promised to talk to anyone in the world without pre-condition so long as it affects the security of the United States.

So Hussein will not be accepting the invitation. I'd make book on that one, assuming I was a gambler.

Special thanks to Ceredwyn for inspiring this post... one of my less yell-y and angry ones, too.

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