Is Liberal a Synonym of Democrat?

The uproar continues over Karl Rove's recent speech to the New York state Conservative Party. It's silly. I understand why the Democrats are drooling over the chance to demand an apology from a Republican after weeks of bad press and dealing with calls for Mad Dr. Dean and Dick Durbin and others to accept responsibility for their WAY over the top rhetoric.

However, the thing that makes their outrage look like nothing more than payback is the fact that Rove's comments were accurate. It's possible he could have qualified his assessment of the behavior of liberals after 9/11. If he is to be faulted for anything, it can only be for the possibility of his comments being interpreted to refer to ALL members of the Democratic Party.

I would say that anyone fluent in English would understand he was speaking about a particular group of people whose philosophy he described quite accurately.

Chuckie Schumer and head-shaking Hillary were horrifed that Karl Rove told the truth about a very vocal and powerful force within the Democratic Party. All the outrage in the world can't change those facts. History cannot be rewritten to suit the whims of some opportunistic politicians.

It cannot be denied that the MoveOn/Michael Moore/George Soros Complex responded to the 9/11 attacks precisely in the way Karl Rove suggested.

Rove said:

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9-11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9-11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."

"MoveOn.org, Michael Moore and Howard Dean may not have agreed with this, but the American people did. Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9-11 and said: we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see...Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia.

"Has there been a more revealing moment this year than when Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin, speaking on the Senate floor, compared what Americans had done to prisoners in our control at Guantanamo Bay with what was done by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot -- three of the most brutal and malevolent figures in the 20th century?

"Let me put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts to the region the words of Sen. Durbin, certainly putting America's men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

Rove is citing specific instances of liberal responses by specific liberals. These liberals DID blame America first and urged restraint in any military reaction.

For example, out of MoveOn, posted 9/13/01:

The Petition

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of the United States of America and of countries around the world, appeal to the President of The United States, George W. Bush; to the NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson; to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi; and to all leaders internationally to use moderation and restraint in responding to the recent terrorist attacks against the United States. We implore the powers that be to use, wherever possible, international judicial institutions and international human rights law to bring to justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than the instruments of war, violence or destruction.

Furthermore, we assert that the government of a nation must be presumed separate and distinct from any terrorist group that may operate within its borders, and therefore cannot be held unduly accountable for the latter's crimes. It follows that the government of a particular nation should not be condemned for the recent attack without compelling evidence of its cooperation and complicity with those individuals who actually committed the crimes in question.

Innocent civilians living within any nation that may be found responsible, in part or in full, for the crimes recently perpetrated against the United States, must not bear any responsibility for the actions of their government, and must therefore be guaranteed safety and immunity from any military or judicial action taken against the state in which they reside.

Lastly and most emphatically, we demand that there be no recourse to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or any weapons of indiscriminate destruction, and feel that it is our inalienable human right to live in a world free of such arms.

The Media Research Center notes what Michael Moore posted on his website on 9/14/01:

"Am I angry? You bet I am. I am an American citizen, and my leaders have taken my money to fund mass murder. And now my friends have paid the price with their lives.

"Keep crying, Mr. Bush. Keep running to Omaha or wherever it is you go while others die, just as you ran during Vietnam while claiming to be ‘on duty’ in the Air National Guard. Nine boys from my high school died in that miserable war. And now you are asking for ‘unity’ so you can start another one? Do not insult me or my country like this!

"Yes, I, too, will be in church at noon today, on this national day of mourning. I will pray for you, and us, and the children of New York, and the children of this sad and ugly world."

And from George Soros' The Bubble Of American Supremacy, 2004, p. 18:

"War is a false and misleading metaphor in the context of combating terrorism. Treating the attacks of September 11 as crimes against humanity would have been more appropriate. Crimes require police work, not military action. To protect against terrorism, you need precautionary measures, awareness, and intelligence gathering - all of which ultimately depend on the support of the populations among which terrorists operate. Imagine for a moment that September 11 had been treated as a crime. We would have pursued Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but we would not have invaded Iraq. Nor would we have our military struggling to perform police work in full combat gear and getting killed in the process."

Clearly, Rove's statements were grounded in fact.

It does seem that the Dems have taken the term "liberal" to be synonymous with "Democrat," something they usually refuse to do. Certainly, not all Dems reacted to the 9/11 attacks in the manner Rove described. The left fringe libs did.

Without question, the Dems should quit demanding an apology from Rove. If they don't like what MoveOn and Michael Moore and George Soros had to say in response to the terrorist attacks, they should take it up with them, not Karl Rove.