Liberals do not understand conservative idealism
Brent Bozell:
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"...there's something else the American people may like about Bush, something very American. His press conference was studded with passionate remarks about the spread of human freedom -- that liberty is not America's gift to the world but God's gift to all mankind. It is not just the thought, but the thought process that the media reject because they cannot recognize it: conservative idealism.
"Liberals would like you to think that John F. Kerry is the second coming of John F. Kennedy, when in fact it is Bush whose message is eerily familiar to those who remember J.F.K. stating in his 1961 inaugural address that we would 'bear any burden ... to ensure the survival and success of liberty.'
"By contrast, John Kerry thinks the solution in Iraq doesn't have to include democracy or freedom, but whatever stable dictatorship will allow us to disengage, as he told reporters in Harlem on April 14: 'I have always said from day one that the goal here ... is a stable Iraq, not whether or not that's a full democracy. I can't tell you what it's going to be, but a stable Iraq. And that stability can take several different forms.'
"...In the book, Kerry stated that those poor benighted Vietnamese "didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy."
"In the 1980s, Senator Kerry tried to crush attempts to build democracy instead of communism in Central America, comparing the Reagan Administration's attempts to fight the spread of Soviet and Cuban revolution to ... Vietnam, of course...."
A question for the two Senators from Massachusett--Is democracy in Iraq a burden you will not bear?
Brent Bozell:
...
"...there's something else the American people may like about Bush, something very American. His press conference was studded with passionate remarks about the spread of human freedom -- that liberty is not America's gift to the world but God's gift to all mankind. It is not just the thought, but the thought process that the media reject because they cannot recognize it: conservative idealism.
"Liberals would like you to think that John F. Kerry is the second coming of John F. Kennedy, when in fact it is Bush whose message is eerily familiar to those who remember J.F.K. stating in his 1961 inaugural address that we would 'bear any burden ... to ensure the survival and success of liberty.'
"By contrast, John Kerry thinks the solution in Iraq doesn't have to include democracy or freedom, but whatever stable dictatorship will allow us to disengage, as he told reporters in Harlem on April 14: 'I have always said from day one that the goal here ... is a stable Iraq, not whether or not that's a full democracy. I can't tell you what it's going to be, but a stable Iraq. And that stability can take several different forms.'
"...In the book, Kerry stated that those poor benighted Vietnamese "didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy."
"In the 1980s, Senator Kerry tried to crush attempts to build democracy instead of communism in Central America, comparing the Reagan Administration's attempts to fight the spread of Soviet and Cuban revolution to ... Vietnam, of course...."
A question for the two Senators from Massachusett--Is democracy in Iraq a burden you will not bear?
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