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America Forever on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:18:00 PM
Sherrod Brown Wins, America Loses
Ohio once again proves its weird sense of humor in electoral politics. Not content with electing the "boy wonder" Dennis Kucinich to Mayor of Cleveland in the 1970's, it elects him to Congress in the 1990's. Not content with a good laugh, Mayor Kucinich decides to have us rolling in the aisles with a run for the Presidency that made Joe Lieberman's own pathetic attempt look like he truly had Joe-mentum. (Oops, I referred to Mr. Kucinich as the Mayor. At least, even during a temporary lapse, I had the presence of mind not to refer to the wunderkind as "Mr. President.")
So, on this bleak Tuesday night, the good citizens of Ohio have elected another sidesplitting joke, this time, to the U.S. Senate.
In another geopolitical environment, even I would concede that Sherrod Brown would be a funny message to send to Washington, in the sixth year of a Republican Presidency. I would -- were it not for the fact that he is a dangerous message to be sent to the U.S. Senate when we are at war with an enemy that I do not believe Mr. Brown has the intellect to comprehend. I would take back my comment on his intellect if he would prove it false by conceding that he just doesn't have the intestinal fortitude required to face the fact that we are in a war for our very existence as a civilization. In the meantime, let's just leave it as a case of intellectual deficiency, a Yale education notwithstanding.
The brave soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan today have cause to be worried. Not by the enemy they so bravely face every day but by the arrival of Senator-elect Brown to join a group of equally unenlightened Democrats who want out of the war -- as if that were a unilateral choice for us to make.
It's late and things may look a bit brighter in the morning. At least, Senator Lieberman seems to have retained his place in the body's Democratic caucus. Maybe he will educate Sherrod Brown about the truth of a dangerous world. Go, do your thing, Joe!