Rove is right

NY Post Editorial:

To judge from the rising Democratic outrage, you'd think presidential counselor Karl Rove came to town Wednesday and compared liberals to Nazis, or Stalin, or Pol Pot.

Oh, sorry.

That was Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the United States Senate — slandering U.S. soldiers.

All Rove did was speak about the comparative attitudes of liberals and conservatives on how best to conduct the War on Terror.

And you know what? He was right.

...

Extremism in the pursuit of political advantage? Let's look at the record:

* John Kerry, the party's 2004 standard-bearer, declared terrorism to be a law-enforcement problem, one he likened to going after prostitution, organized crime and illegal gambling.

* George Soros, sugar-daddy for liberal causes and Democratic campaigns — and the major money behind MoveOn — said the same thing. He called 9/11 a "crime against humanity," adding: "Crimes require police work, not military action" and charged that the War on Terror had claimed more "innocent victims" than the 9/11 attacks themselves.

* Sen. Joe Biden, now considering a 2008 White House run, said America would "pay every single hour, every single day" that bombs were dropped on Afghanistan in the campaign that forced out the Taliban.

* And Michael Moore, the capo di tutti capo of Democratic crackpots, said he "couldn't understand" why America was targeting the Taliban, suggesting that we "examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in."

The list, actually, is endless.

"Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: 'We will defeat our enemies.' Liberals saw what happened to us and said: 'We must understand our enemies'," Rove said Wednesday.

Right on.

The hysteria of his critics proves just how close to home the remarks hit.

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