Travis Doug Henwood wrote:
> [from the reactionary hack PR firm - note Pat Buchanan cri de coeur at
> end]
>
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> "This isn't France!"
>
> GOP IS NOT IN CRISIS-- LIBERALS ARE IN DENIAL
>
> Author of best-selling kid's book HELP! MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER
> MY BED scoffs at liberals licking their chops over election results
> and Bush's recent woes. Says concerns by Pat Buchanan are overblown
> and Americans want more conservatism. Her message to Dems: "Silly
> liberals! This isn't France!"
>
> What's the difference between liberals and children?
>
> * * * * * * * * * * *
> Conservatives -- stung by set-backs at the polls on Tuesday, as well
> as President Bush's sagging popularity numbers and the indictment of a
> key member of the Administration -- are beginning to panic. Pat
> Buchanan has already declared that "Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis," a
> message headlined on the popular Drudge Report today. Meanwhile,
> liberal Democrats such as Howard Dean are gleeful, predicting a
> landslide victory in next year's House and Senate elections.
>
> These predictions of a pending conservative melt-down are overblown,
> according to Katharine DeBrecht, the author of HELP! MOM! THERE ARE
> LIBERALS UNDER MY BED, the best-selling children's book that features
> villainous look-alikes of left-wing icons Hillary Rodham Clinton and
> Ted Kennedy.
>
> "Liberalism is a brain-dead philosophy, and the American people do not
> believe in it," asserts DeBrecht, whose book has provoked charges of
> brainwashing and Nazism from liberal critics. "After FDR, our nation
> tried liberalism for 50 years -- and it didn't work! That's why the
> Democratic party lost Congress after decades of dominance, why the GOP
> has won 7 of the last 10 presidential contests, why no self-proclaimed
> 'liberal' has won the Presidency since 1964, and why twice as many
> people now self-identify as conservatives as compared to liberals."
>
> Conservatives should not panic over a few bumps in the road, adds
> DeBrecht, who notes that even Ronald Reagan suffered the loss of
> Republican control of the Senate in 1986. And while President Bush may
> need to re-examine his staff and strategies, all signs suggest that
> the on-going conservative revolution will continue to make progress
> over the years to come.
>
> "The American people want more conservatism, not less!" argues
> DeBrecht. "They want to see Washington cut its out-of-control spending
> and secure our borders, and they don't trust bureaucrats to make
> decisions for them and their families. The liberals won't do that. All
> they have to offer is a tired agenda of higher taxes, opposition to
> family values, hostility toward religion, and a relentless desire to
> turn more control over to the United Nations. The American people
> won't go along with that -- this isn't France!"
>
> Liberals have relentlessly attacked DeBrecht for her illustrated HELP!
> MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED since it was published earlier
> this fall. Alan Colmes called it "brainwashing," pundit Andrew
> Sullivan said it invoked images of Mao Tse-Tung, and MSNBC host Ron
> Reagan said he wanted to publish his own kid's book to demonstrate
> that conservatives "hate black people." The Democratic Underground
> website proclaimed DeBrecht a member of their "Top 10 Conservative
> Idiots" list, and the spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly
> mocked her book, claiming it suffered from poor sales. (The book is
> currently going to press for a third printing, and it has been ranked
> as high as #1 on Barnes & Noble's website.)
>
> "Silly liberals!" laughs DeBrecht. "Can you believe that they actually
> think this country will take a long-run turn to the left? The
> difference between liberals and children," she adds, "is that most
> children are eager to learn new things, while liberals never learn!"
>