Denis Boyles on NRO. Read this amazing intro:
In the middle of the thundering herd's race to blame the values issue for Kerry's defeat, Jeff Jacoby — the Boston Globe's tenuous link to reason — had some bad news for the idiots of the global village this week: "For four years, Americans watched and listened as President Bush was demonized with a savagery unprecedented in modern American politics....And then on Tuesday they turned out to vote and handed the haters a crushing repudiation."Very cutting edge, Americans. We may be on to something again. In the '60s, it was free love. Nobody had to pay for it. Now it's free hate — and nobody's buying that, either. Virtually every major European newspaper is giving away lifetime supplies of toxic text and poisonous bile, all directed toward George W. Bush and the Americans hate-filled Brian Reade in the Mirror calls "the frightened and clueless...self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks...who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to child-molesting." Persuasive, no?
No, it's not. The party without a soul has some soul-searching to do.
I agree that the Democrat Party has lost it's soul, which is why I am no longer a Democrat. But I cannot join a Republican Party that seems not to have a heart.
I spent last summer in Italy and I was stunned at how afraid they are of George Bush. That kind of fear can fuel hate if it is not addressed. They honestly fear that Bush will lead us to World War III.
Feelings are neither right nor wrong, and this fear is not necesarily rational.