Comments on: Surrender Is As Surrender Does

By: The Thunder Run

The Thunder Run — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:43:55 +0000

Web Reconnaissance 08/12/2007

A short recon of what�s out there that might draw your attention updated throughout the day�so check back often. This is a weekend edition so updates are as time and family permits.

By: section9

section9 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:51:47 +0000

The sense of betrayal in Kosland will be a thing of beauty to behold. However, for Giuliani and Thompson, they are the ones who are sitting pretty, imho.

The Times is merely prepping the Democrats for a shift in memes. In the long run, however, the President was smart, as were the Republicans, to hold their nerve.

By: amr

amr — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:21:04 +0000

My very thoughts, saltydog. “Spin doctoring this is their only real hope of surviving as a party, and as individuals”, said The_Real_JeffS. I agree here too. But my hope is that the communication revolution will keep WHAT THEY HAVE SAID and where they have not renounced their previous position without an explanation (fat chance) will keep such information in front of the voters and they will be skewered. Any politician who changes his position and does not explain it to his constituents needs to be thrown out of office at the next election, regardless of party. The time for politicians getting away with saying to separate groups what they want to hear, hopefully, are over and the blogosphere is in the forefront of pushing just that as this article demonstrates.

By: Grimmy

Grimmy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:44:06 +0000

saltydog:

The people you refer to will not comprehend anything any deeper then the bottom of their own bellies, or of any farther reach than their own genitals.

They are damaged goods, incapable of rational reaction to anything that does not directly feed them or scratch what itches in them.

By: saltydog

saltydog — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:47:13 +0000

I know it’s politics, but I wish like hell that these people would get serious and actually see the damage they do, as opposed simply bending with the wind. We desperately need some intelligence applied to the problems we face, not just in the Middle East, but here at home. It won’t do us much good to win on the field, if we allow a creeping Shari’a here at home, and the continued radicalization of our own Muslim population by the Saudi’s well-financed Wahhabis. Those problems won’t be taken care of until we finally confront the gross fallacies (and peril) of the collectivist ideology of multiculturalism and political correctness, with all their culture killing off-spring.

If the ant’s head explodes, Jeff, I don’t think the collective will even notice. They are all interchangeable, after all–egalitarianism, and all that.

By: The_Real_JeffS

The_Real_JeffS — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:51:22 +0000

And before I forget……

I’m expecting that one of those exploding heads belongs to the THE ALPHTARD™. After all, He was counting on the Dhimmicrats to save His jihadi brethern. Alas, that appears not to be the case.

By: The_Real_JeffS

The_Real_JeffS — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:49:32 +0000

Now, they need to make it look like it was their idea.

But of course. Spin doctoring this is their only real hope of surviving as a party, and as individuals. But the same techniques that saved Ted “I can swim!” Kennedy (and even helped him prosper) will work nicely here, especially as their target audience tends towards tunnel vision anyway.

By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:26:57 +0000

Heads must be exploding among the Kos Brigades. How else to explain that sulfur smell?

As for the boob-baring bats, my only response to them would be: Good God, women! Have some dignity.

By: OldManTyme

OldManTyme — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:25:50 +0000

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I’ve been reading this in the wind for 2 months now. There are some acerbic and accusatory conferences going on at various Dem legislators’ summer retreats right now. New scripting is being defined, written, discarded, rewritten, redefined, refined, and polished.

The turnaround when congress reconvenes is going to be dramatic, and not just about Iraq. It’s finally occurring to Pelosi, Reid, the presidential hopefuls – all and sundry – that Bush is a lame duck and there’s little to be gained going after him directly and much to lose.

In some ways, the worst thing that could have happened to the Dem hope to take the White House in 2008 was winning such a slim majority in 2006. They’d have been better off carping from the minority and insulated from the looney left holding them responsible for any consequences.

By: Purple Avenger

Purple Avenger — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:08:02 +0000

he would even leave some military equipment behind to expedite the troop withdrawal

Dumbass. We’re going to leave a huge amount of stuff behind for the IA and IP’s under any circumstances.