When bill Clinton got trapped into his own words while under oath some time ago, he tried redefining the word “is”.
Ken Blackwell over at Townhall, this morning, Suggests that the democrats may be forced into redefining words again.
The Iraq War may have helped the Democrats win Congress in 2006, but now developments both in Iraq and here at home are putting the Democrats — and especially Hillary Clinton — in a position where they might try to redefine “victory” and “defeat” to help their political fortunes at the expense of our national interest, to our nation’s shame.
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The Democrats realize the problem they face with Iraq is the fact that it is improving. The House Majority Whip, James Clyburn, said that if General Petraeus brings positive news from Iraq it would, “be a real big problem for us.” That’s just awful for a politician to say that military victory is bad news.
This is especially dangerous for Senator Clinton. The far Left of her party is now ferociously anti-war. If middle America is again willing to see this through, she runs the risk of either pandering to her base and losing swing voters, or supporting the troops and alienating her base. Neither is good.
Look for Democratic leaders — maybe including Mrs. Clinton herself — to start to redefine victory. They will cease to measure military progress and start demanding Iraqi political unity.
Our troops will win while their politicians bicker. This would enable Democrats and their presidential candidate to continue ranting that we’re losing the war, beating Republicans over the head with it, even if it’s not true.
But again, as we did in the previous post, we come to the question of what happens when that political victory seems at hand? Forgive me, but it seems to me that at that point the Democrats are in a trap even bill Clinton wouldn’t be able to talk his way out of. Or, is if Hillary? I suppose it doesn’t matter.
