Blameworthy
Michael Barone makes an excellent point regarding the Donkey Party’s loyalty to America, using their love affair with Michael Moore to illustrate:
Consider the case of Michael Moore. In June 2004, about half of the Democratic senators attended the Washington premiere of Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida emerged from the theater with a big smile and a thumbs up for photographers. At the Democratic National Convention, Moore was seated next to former President Jimmy Carter on Monday night.
This is the same Michael Moore who hailed the Iraqi insurgents as “Minute Men” and who said they will and should win. This is the same Michael Moore whose own website featured his statement that Americans are the stupidest people in the world. If that is not rooting for America’s enemies, I don’t know what is. Yet leading Democrats chose to associate themselves with him. . . .
[I]t is these Democrats [who support Michael Moore et al.], not George W. Bush or their Republican critics, who have raised the question of whether they are on America’s side.
Partly, the Democratic Party has yielded to the kookish leftish fringe that Moore represents, which has forced them to applaud approvingly for lying debauchery like Farenheit 9/11. Yet, their ideological surrender does not exculpate their behavior. Indeed, why should Americans trust congressional leaders who, for one reason or other, side with individuals who prefer socialism over constitutional democracy and surreptiously apologize for the 9/11 bombers or current Al Qaeda members fighting against the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere?