On Staying Home in November
Allah, now blogging over at Hot Air, makes the case for why it's pretty effing dumb for anyone who cares about national security to not support GOP candidates in November 2006:
...the stakes are simply too high for a protest vote (or non-vote), I think. I hate to say it — especially when the Senate is on the verge of passing that awful immigration bill — but they’ve got us by the shorthairs. When push comes to shove, better that we have pro-amnesty politicians who support taking out terror camps than pro-amnesty politicians who can “see it from both sides.”
Allah is a wise man, and if you don't know him it's a shame because his old blog got deleted so you'll never get the full experience.
Regrettably, quite a few people are probably going to elect to be colored "effing dumb" in November 2006, without any hesitation. Here's where the Bush administration's tremendous success in keeping the fighting "over there" can turn out to be a political negative. For some people, the distant military threat from Islamic radicals now pales before the immediate economic and social threat from illegal immigrants. It's really a shame the Republican leadership cannot see the latter threat as significant to their constituents as the former.
