Kerry: Rantisi’s killing was justified
By JANINE ZACHARIA
Well, there goes the CAIR vote. Wait. What are they gonna do? Vote for Bush? It doesn’t seem to worry Kerry a bit that they might desert to Nader. Apparently, he has finally gotten the message that terror-apologist support costs more votes than it is worth.
US Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on Sunday Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi was justified because Israel "has every right in the world to respond to any act of terror against it."
"Hamas is a terrorist, brutal organization," he told NBC’s Meet the Press.
"It has had years to make up its mind to take part in a peaceful process. They refuse to ... and I support Israel’s efforts to try to separate itself and to try to be secure."
Combined with the public rebuke of Kos "Screw ’em" Zuniga and "Red" Steinke’s "shoot Rumsfeld" ad, this is another sign that the extreme Left’s 35 year reign of dominance in the Democratic Party is coming to an end.
At Free Republic, they dismiss this as simple pandering, but the same might be said of any statement that reflects a significant body of voter opinion.
This leaves the left-conformist wackos without a home in partisan politics, and makes a violent outburst by that element all the more likely. This "disenfranchisement" (lack of dictatorial power for lefties) will drive them absolutely berserk.
The extreme left is not a small noisy fringe element, it is a well-established and well-funded complex of interests, centered on media culture and the academic world.
As we have speculated here for some time, they are whipping themselves up for a violent confrontation. The downward spiral of their demented rhetoric must inevitably overcome self-preservation and be translated into action.
I will make my prediction again: a second civil war in November if Bush wins, next spring if Kerry wins.
Fortunately, it will not be anything like the last one. The rebels will be practically helpless this time and their raging hubris will not compenstate for the lack of weapons and know-how.
The far left’s dominance began with a violent uprising, at the Chicago convention in 1968, it will end in a similar but much worse outburst. |