"The Party of the Weak Horse"

Jeffrey Lord is a superlative wordsmith, as would be expected of a former Reagan White House political director. He has just written an eloquent and powerful account of how the modern Democratic Party has come to be identified with weakness and appeasement – and why Obama and company reacted so dramatically to President Bush's Knesset address. I very seldom use this term, but "The Party of the Weak Horse" is a must-read. Here's the first sentence:

It was as if a dentist had just jabbed at an exposed nerve in a rotting tooth, inducing a shrill howl from his helpless patient.

Go read the rest. I promise you won't be disappointed. Then come on back here for a moment. There's something else I'd like to show you.

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Did you like it? Good! I knew you would.

Next, check out this column that Jeffrey Lord wrote last week, "Jimmy Carter’s Second Term." It's a masterpiece. (If you were listening to Rush the other day – yes, this is the column he was discussing.)

Here's a snippet:

But Obama's views are also something else. They are the product of a world view that has been around for centuries -- failing every time it's tried. Obama's campaign website says Obama "will take several steps down the long road toward eliminating nuclear weapons. He will stop the development of new nuclear weapons; work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair trigger alert; seek dramatic reductions in U.S. and Russian stockpiles of nuclear weapons and material; and set a goal to expand the U.S.-Russian ban on intermediate- range missiles so that the agreement is global." He also pledges to stop the research and deployment of a missile defense, the same system that Reagan created to end the Cold War.

America was led down this philosophical garden path most recently by Carter. Whether advocated by Carter in 1979, Chamberlain in 1939 or a President Obama in 2009, the philosophy behind this idea has simply never worked. Period. Yet, to borrow from Reagan's line in his debate with Carter, here we go again.

With all of the sweep of American history to look back on, with virtual libraries of history recording what works and what doesn't when running the American government, Obama has stunningly selected the Carter policies as his role model.