William J. Bennett on Democrats on National Review Online
Go back to your roots as you plan your speeches for Boston, as you prepare your campaign to replace President Bush. Re-embrace your concern for human rights abroad with your willingness to use force to defend those rights. Propose alternative foreign-policy strategies that can build off of our successes in Iraq and Afghanistan ” and cease labeling those successes as failures. Restore the proper and respectful role of your partisan duties with legitimate differences of opinion that do not give doubts as to your principles. In the end, let 'er rip, but do not ” for the sake of your party, for the sake of your country” abuse your partisan role to further divide our nation, or our reputation abroad. Up until now, your demagoguery has put a primacy on the fanning of flames rather than the light a responsible use of heat should shed. Boston, the site of so much good from our country's early history, can be the site of you reclaiming so much good from your party's past. Now is the time for your new revolution; do not ” in your heated passion” squander this moment.
"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."---Moliere
Where are all the essays where Mr. Bennett---such the master of virtue---has criticized the Republican Party and President Bush with the same heat he's criticized Democrats over the years?
Nothing. Zero. Zilch. That's about Bennett's level of credibility with this Karl Rove-on-Ecstasy, tiresome essay.
(And there would be Republicans whom the Dems would respectfully listen to---Senator John McCain is the first to come to mind. David Brooks is another.)
