The GOP Realizes the Democrats Won't Debase Our Politics as They Have

Remember recent history? Rove instructed Bush 43 to say, "You can embolden an enemy by sending a mixed message... You send the wrong message to our troops by sending mixed messages."

And Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) claims that terrorists "are going to throw everything they can between now and the election to try and elect Kerry," adding that Democrats are "consistently saying things that I think undermine our young men and women who are serving over there."

Democrats won't resort to these techniques, but isn't there somewhere in the Bible about treating people as they treat you.

The article "Obama fails to grasp the gravity of going to war" describes the GOP attacks that Rove would never have allowed to remain unchallenged.

The article states "I see Obama's visiting the United States," said Rush Limbaugh on Thursday, the president's first full day back in Washington after a spring break diplomatic tour of Latin America. For the White House, it was a touch of well-deserved sarcasm; Obama's absence at the start of the Libyan hostilities, along with his haphazard conversations with members of Congress and his nonexistent effort to prepare the American public for war, left more than a few Washington insiders shaking their heads over how the president could have mishandled things so badly."

I guess we should just forget how Bush 43 cherry-picked intelligence to lie the US into the Iraq while bin laden thumbed his nose at us and used the Iraq war as a recruiting bonanza.

The article states "I am completely mystified," says former top Bush aide Karl Rove, who supports the Libya intervention, "that this administration, of all administrations, makes a decision on a Tuesday night and does not bother to call anybody in Congress until Friday morning, 90 minutes before the policy is going to be executed, to tell them what is going to happen. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had tried to do that? We'd have been barbecued!"

Rove would be in jail if the Democrats matched GOP practices. Not only that, but FOX pays him to spout GOP propaganda. They gave Ollie North-a criminal during Reagan's administration, a similar chance and Rupert Murdoch has utilizes these thugs for profit.

Where does "Turd Blossom" get the nerve to criticize President Obama?

Rove believed in a constant political campaign at the expense of actually governing and as the article states "We would have marked that in a very significant way," says Dan Bartlett, the former White House communications director. "We would have built a whole, for want of a better word, campaign to articulate what was happening."

Yes, Bush 43 marketed the Iraq war in such a way that the GOP gained a few extra seats. The Muslim world, and even our allies, hates us for this atrocity, but Rove got a few extra seats and the top 1% in the military-industrial complex made a profit, so the GOP was happy.

President Obama wants to get out of Libya as quickly as possible-so maybe he didn't want to emphasize the US' role. Bartlett referred to this as the article states "Bartlett, who also supports U.S. involvement, believes the laid-back White House handling of the war might be an intentional strategy to downplay the U.S. role -- "Maybe they're thinking that if we had the president out there in a big way, it's going to be viewed as an American effort."

No administration used propaganda more blatantly than Bush 43's. Remember "Mission Accomplished"? Yet some GOP minion accuses President Obama of using misinformation. The article states "The president has gotten us involved in a war, but they won't call it a war," says Peter Wehner, another Bush White House veteran. "Muddled thinking creates muddled language, and we're getting a lot of muddled language." There's no sign that will change anytime soon."

The article "Cantor criticizes Obama on US actions in Libya" noted that it wasn't only GOP fools not currently in the Congress.

The article states "House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Thursday that President Barack Obama must more clearly explain the U.S. role in Libya."

If we get the international community involved we don't pay as much. Bush 43 ruined our economy and not raising taxes during expensive wars that the US almost entirely paid for, and yet Cantor wants to pretend that the US can't afford another pricey war.

The article states ""It seems more important to appease the United Nations and Europe at times than it is to answer to the American people," Cantor said. "Where is Washington taking us in, now, this new commitment of action?"

Red staters are sadly folks with little to hope for. They can be reached by appealing to their basest instincts. Hate, fear and war mongering has been the staples of GOP politics for generations and Cantor pays homage to this as the article states "If we're engaging diplomatically, the only language that some in that region understand is that there may be the threat of force."

It isn't going to be the children of the top 1% involved in these wars that Cantor is salivating over. Red staters-it is your children who will be paying the ultimate sacrifice.

The article "NATO preparing to take over Libya mission" describes how President Obama's plan seems promising.

The article states "The Obama administration is preparing to turn over control of the Libyan no-fly zone to NATO, though American warplanes will continue to participate in the military assault against forces loyal to Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, administration officials said Thursday.

"We have agreed along with our NATO allies to transition command and control of the no-fly zone," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday evening."

Let's hope that President Obama has learned that the US can't stuck in another quagmire in addition to the two Bush 43 and his "Political Brain" Rove has us in.

The article states "As the fighting continues ... you are going to see the pressure ratcheted up for the United States or the coalition to do more," said Jim Lindsay, vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations. "And that's where you get into the dreaded 'mission creep'... where you end up doing things you vowed not to do," he said, suggesting that the U.S. and allies could be forced to deploy ground troops to defeat Gadhafi, something Obama said he would not do."

It is horrible to think of what inhumanities Gadhafi is capable of. In Iraq we've seen what can be accomplished when intervening in a country with a ruthless tyrant. Some days it looks promising, others not so much, Gadhafi refers to his people as germs-how could anyone be more depraved?

It seems like the thing to do is to get in, get some stability, and hand it off-which is President Obama's policy. Only time will tell, and anyone who hasn't learned that we don't understand the complexities of lands so far away from us in miles and in culture, hasn't been paying attention.

Democrats won't sink to the depths of depravity that the GOP has resided in for generations. Nothing President Obama does is good enough for them, but the GOP's reputation precedes them and the Democrats must do what they feel is correct.