"Unity" is just another word for nothing left to lose

Preznit asks, "Why can't we all just get along?"

Drawing parallels between the challenges of his presidency and those of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Mr. Bush said, “Our nation has endured trials, and we face a difficult road ahead.” And he called for unity, saying, “We must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us.”

I mean, they don't go around calling the opposition "unpatriotic," do they?

"At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views on national security," Rove said. "Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn't make them unpatriotic -- not at all. But it does make them wrong -- deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong."

And they'd never resort to name-calling, would they?

Today's Democrat Party is the Party of George Soros, a man who said "By declaring a 'war on terror' after September the 11th, we set the wrong agenda for the world," not JFK, a man who said "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Today's Democrat party is the Party of Ted Kennedy, who said "The U.S. military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution," not FDR, a man who said "We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away."

Today's Democrat party is the Party of blame America first, led by a man who suggested that terrorist attacks on Israel were the fault of Republicans, saying "If you think what's going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn't ..."

Today's Democrat Party has become the Defeat-ocrat Party.

Funnnnn-y. But Mehlman's just a card; that's not meant to be a Republican talking point!

Last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared critics of the war to "appeasers." Cheney, for months, has been calling those who want to withdraw from Iraq "plain wrong." The White House press secretary, Tony Snow, coined a new term, "Defeatocrats."

The atmosphere is just right for holding hands, isn't it?