Kevin07’s election strategy: just stand for nothing

• hypocrisy in the Democratic Party’s policies;
• a willingness for liberals to put personal ambition ahead of national security;
• a misunderstanding among liberals as to why (American) blacks are in the economic warren from which they seemingly cannot escape; and
• the most debilitating symptom of all: an inability to distinguish right from wrong, by constantly downplaying the War on Terror, not least by scuppering it through liberalism’s preferred terminology: the so-called War on Terror. As though both sides in the war have equally legitimate points to argue (Hello there radio ABC 702).

Goldberg’s attacks on the Republicans focus on his belief that the party has ditched its conservative values. The party no longer worries about illegal immigrants entering the United States; it worries now on getting those illegals to vote Republican. He also chastises the Republicans for spending like drunken sailors, when such obscenities were always the province of the Democrats. He hints that spending big and raising taxes (as is the Democratic way) is not favoured by him, but is at least honest. Spending big and simultaneously lowering taxes, as the Republicans have been doing under George W. Bush, Goldberg suggests, is not responsible.

Goldberg claims that liberals are great at talking the talk but somewhat unable to walk the walk. Liberals bellow loudly they are for affirmative action (which means giving a job to a black kid over a white kid with equal merit) but when he asks senior liberals in his workplace and then repeats that question to senior businessmen (also liberals) if they will yield (to a black man) their lofty jobs and fine salaries to advance the issue of race-relations, he finds not one will personally make such a sacrifice, but all agree that in principle it’s a noble ideal. He gives winning examples of such naked hypocrisy when he relates the shameless behaviour of former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather as well as big-talking-little-doing sophisticates at the New York Times.

He is gob smacked that Hollywood has more visceral anger to President George W. Bush than to Osama Bin Laden. Last he looked the United States President was not an active terrorist, unlike Saudi Arabia’s most famous outlaw.

Goldberg, who started life as a staunch liberal, is attracted to President George W. Bush for three reasons: the President is a man of faith; the President wears his patriotism on his sleeve and on his lapel; and the President like Goldberg but unlike most Democrats, understands that as a people and as a nation, there is nothing at all on the other side of the Atlantic than can compare to the greatness and the uniqueness of the United States. Not a thing. Goldberg’s conversion from a liberal to a centrist is arguably the glue that holds the book together.

He recounts how liberals will do anything to excuse murderers, even demonstrate for their early release, but will never forgive a (conservative) bigot once he has expressed remorse. Case in point: Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic remark. Last Goldberg looked, Mel didn’t kill anyone, but liberals still won’t forgive his sinful words.

In the interests of fairness, liberals believe that everyone should be searched at airports and deplores the very idea of ethnic profiling of air passengers. Pointing out that while not every Muslim is a terrorist, Goldberg - but not the liberals nationwide - acknowledges that every terrorist, from Russia, Israel, Iraq and America, is a Muslim. And hence it is sheer madness, he opines, to stop and check, say an 85-year-old Anglo Saxon grandmother from the Mid West with the same vigour as one would check say, a young Saudi Arabian male.

He is amazed that the party that credits itself with an open mind can take Global Warming as gospel, even though there is much dissent among scientists.

This book is an easy read. It appeals for three reasons: first, for comprehensively cataloguing the errors of judgment, the absence of scruples and the lapses of morals that are the hallmarks of the Democratic Party. Second, for the insight it gives into the rat cunning exhibited by both political parties in their quest to win office, where everything’s for sale, including a politician’s integrity. And third, for the successful template that it has so far proven to be for the ALP’s run in the coming election.