Orson Scott Card vs. the "Bush Haters"

Scathing editorial in today's Wall Street Journal by one of my favorite science fiction writers, Orson Scott Card, a Democrat taking issue with the predominantly anti-war/anti-Bush platform of his party's presidential campaign(ers):

". . . their platforms range from Howard Dean's "Bush is the devil" to everybody else's "I'll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil." Since President Bush is quite plainly not the devil, one wonders why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks this ploy will play with the general public. . . ."

It's a long article but well worth reading, and his conclusion is one which is probably shared by many other Democrats:

I can think of many, many reasons why the Republicans should not control both houses of Congress and the White House. But right now, if the alternative is the Democratic Party as led in Congress and as exemplified by the current candidates for the Democratic nomination, then I can't be the only Democrat who will, with great reluctance, vote not just for George W. Bush, but also for every other candidate of the only party that seems committed to fighting abroad to destroy the enemies that seek to kill us and our friends at home.

And if we elect a government that subverts or weakens or ends our war against terrorism, we can count on this: We will soon face enemies that will make 9/11 look like stubbing our toe, and they will attack us with the confidence and determination that come from knowing that we don't have the will to sustain a war all the way to the end.

"The Campaign of Hate and Fear"
Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2003