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Serious Times

Do you remember the collective sigh of relief we all had after September 11th when we realized that but for a few votes in Florida, we might facing Osama and his minions under a Gore administration? We realized that serious times require serious people, and thank goodness, the White House was under adult supervision again.

So here we come to the next election. Over the last four years, the forty-second president has attempted to justify a legacy, but I predict that if he is remembered at all a hundred years from now it will be for two things: Monica and the man who let bin Laden get away.

We are three and half years from the last presidential election, and the long anxious days where we learned more than we wished about hanging chads and butterfly ballots.

We are closing on the third anniversary since the World Trade Center was reduced to a million ton heap of rubble. In those intervening years, America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. In both cases, they removed abhorrent regimes and replaced them with governments less likely to feed people through plastic shredders.

Once again we are faced with a choice, but the issues are not prescription drugs or even homosexual marriage. (Just so we are clear on these things, I am one of those conservatives who detests the raid on the treasury to parcel out drugs, and I adhere to morality that believes marriage is between one man and one woman—period, end of sentence.)

The issue is the national security, integrity and sovereignty of the United States. George Bush is a president who has visibly aged over the last years. He has dealt with our generation’s Pearl Harbor. He faces an intractable enemy that welcomes death and relishes killing Americans. The Islamic Fascists would desperately like to take a WMD and light it off in an American city.

These days the evil is harbored in three places: Damascus, Tehran and Pyongyang. It is becoming increasingly obvious that Saddam’s WMDs crossed the border and are buried in concrete bunkers along the Bekka Valley. No doubt, an Ohio class boomer has the place on its target list.

Tehran’s Mullahs (those were the fun folks who violated American sovereignty twenty five years ago) are developing an offensive nuclear capability. These nut cases are crazy enough to give a nuclear bomb to al Qaeda.

Finally, Pyongyang’s Great Leader is recovering from massive explosions several months back (you remember the one they heard across the Chinese border over thirty miles distant). North Korea seems intent on developing an ICBM based arsenal pointed at America, Japan and the rest, and they are so desperate for cash that they’ll sell their wares to anyone.

That’s what the world looks like.

The Democratic nominee is a good-time, rock and roll fellow. (Did you know he served almost four months in Vietnam and got three purple hearts?) He has surrounded himself with Clinton retreads, who if you scratch hard enough are really Jimmy retreads. His advisors include Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. He has made headlines recently for stuffing ninety pages of classified documents into his socks, shorts, shirt and what ever at the National Archives.

John Kerry complained on Larry King that the campaign had intruded on his schedule so much that he did not have time to receive his national security briefings.

Finally, he selected John Edwards as his running mate in an effort to break George Bush’s grip on the southern states. In a time when there are people gunning for our leaders, does anyone believe John Edwards is qualified or prepared to become president in the event of a successful assassination?

This country cannot afford to return to the frivolous times marked by the Clinton years. We need serious people to guide the country in this time of war. The Bush administration needs cooperation to rebuild the military, the intelligence apparatus and to hunt down the bad guys.

You see that’s what it comes down to: hunting down and killing the Osamas and his wannabes.

George Bush has proven he is willing to do the job.

John Kerry has proven nothing.