Reply #6: Not so fast there...

[PurityOfEssence]

When, during the '04 campaign, Junior announced redeployment of our military to better service the needs of the post cold war world, he was talking about taking many troops out of Germany and putting them where they'd best serve current interests. Far be it from me to praise this sub-moron privileged asshole, but this approach made sense.

Kerry, of course, following your party line approach, spoke out against it. That was the absolutely wrong thing to do; he should have said that it was a good idea that should have been initiated long ago, thus agreeing with a very sensible idea and still tweaking the boy-king.

Knee-jerk disagreement and resistance is stupid. When they're wrong--as they are most of the time--then they should be pre-emptively confronted, but to simply take the opposite side in anything they do just makes us contrarians and political maneuverers.

They're wrong on most issues, and should be fought on those, but to simply "be agin 'em" whenever they propose anything will hurt us in the end.

We shouldn't be against the war because they're for it, we're against it because it was horrendous abuse of power, unjustified and an affront to humanity itself. We should be against tax cuts because it allows those who benefit the most from our collective effort to shirk their responsibility, mooch off the struggling workers and destroy the elaborate network of goods and services from which we all benefit. We should be against the gutting of the safety net because it'll tear our country apart; the cost of individual failure is a cost to us all, and more importantly, it's deeply morally wrong.

Fight them on everything that they should be fought on, but vocally agree on the few things that make sense.