No Confidence Vote

With the New Hampshire Primary looming, the options that remain for the Democrat Party do not inspire confidence. Joe Lieberman, the only candidate for serious people, is moribund in the polls. Howard Dean and Wesley Clark, the scariest and most entertaining candidates, are fading fast. Likely to finish first and second are John Kerry and John Edwards. Setting aside their excellent given names, both are running away from the defining actions of American foreign policy in the past ten years. The liberation of Iraq and the doctrine of preemptive defense have demonstrated American resolve to defeat Islamic fascism and are delivering results. Libya has opened its weapons program to inspection, a globally disbursed market for the tools and expertise necessary to create nuclear weapons has been uncovered, massive numbers of Al Qaeda operatives are dead or in custody. Despite these successes Kerry and Edwards insist that the only legitimate way to pursue national defense is with a permission slip from the United Nations. They will make a two man race of the remaining primaries but how either candidacy can inspire foreign policy confidence is left to the liberal imagination.