The unifying theme of their (Democrats’) otherwise contradictory messages is that we can return to the infantile delusions of September 10, and not the crisis-filled adult world of post-September 11 that now confronts George W. Bush.

I got this quote from Victor David Hanson via Worldmag blog. The quote is the final sentence of an article in the August 6th National Review entitled A Return to Childhood. I agree with everything Hanson says, and I have something to add to his argument. Not only are those who are listening to the Democrats and who plan to vote for John Kerry falling for a siren song of false security, but also those third -party utopians who plan to throw away their votes in a meaningless gesture instead of voting for an imperfect candidate who might have the will to win this war in which we are engaged, those third party voters are deluded. Peggy Noonan, in the column I wrote about yesterday, says,
Because I am a conservative I support the party that best represents conservative views, the Republican Party. Sometimes I get mad at it; often it disappoints me. It is imperfect, and not perfectible. But to a greater degree than in the past I feel an urge to help it. Since peace was wrenched off the tracks on 9/11, deep in my heart I have pulled for President Bush, Vice President Cheney, members of the current administration, and Republicans in the Senate and the House. With the decline of the Democratic Party I have become convinced there is a greater chance we will win the war if the Republican Party wins the election.
This is the way adults think. There are no perfect political parties, no ideal political candidates. I will never find a political candidate who will agree with me on everything, and in this post 9/11 world we do not have the luxury of voting for someone who sounds more Christian or more conservative than GWB and thereby throwing the election to the Democrats. John Kerry doesn’t even seem to know who our enemy is; he and his supporters believe that I am the enemy of America, Bush and his right-wing, extremist, fundamentalist voting base. I do not understand this kind of thinking, and I do not understand the thinking that says because GWB is wrong on immigration or wrong on the war in Iraq or not pushing hard enough to end abortion or whatever, I will vote for Candidate X who says all the right words and has absolutely no chance of winning this election.
I believe our continued existence as a nation is at stake in this election, and I further believe that if we elect John Kerry we will pay for our mistake with “blood, sweat, and tears.” As Peggy Noonan implies, there are no guarantees. We are already in a war with Islamic terrorists around the world; the question is not how can we get out of this war? Nor is it should we be fighting this war? The question is how can we win this war and defeat these terrorists and show the world the fallacies of their evil worldview? And who can lead us as a nation to do so?