John Kasich Takes on Naomi Wolf
I saw this video on The O’Reilly factor last week, and some lefty blogs have posted the video saying that Naomi won this short debate. But I’m not so sure of that…
Naomi Wolf has gone from dressing up Al Gore during the 2000 campaign in “earth tones” to now comparing Guantanamo Bay (with 3 religiously-sensitive meals per day, free prayer rugs, health care, et cetera) to Soviet gulags (starvation and harsh physical labor), and argues that terrorists should have access to the judicial system. She can’t be serious, can she? Does she want them to be read their Miranda rights when captured on the battlefield, too?
And since when is the press restricted? Some of America’s most closely guarded secrets are frequently printed in the New York Times and most MSM reporters discuss the War on Terror with a strong anti-America bias and with no repercussions for doing so. I would gladly support a new Sedition Act during times of war, but President Bush has never even remotely hinted at making such a proposal.
I think Kasich was right to dismiss Naomi’s over the top, Bush=Hitler rhetoric. Kasich is a polite fellow and even explains why he thinks Wolf is a “nice person”, but the truth is that she has a serious case of BDS. If the Naomi Wolfs of the world ran the federal government, how would we ever win a war?
Republcans need to always remember to attack the premise of the lunatic arguments that lefties like Naomi advance. We concede premises that are absurd, and then argue around the edges.
Never concede the false premise. Never fail to impact the argument, our population is no longer sufficiently eduated in history or politics to always understand the more fact and reasoned derivative arguments we advance, whereas the Democratic illogical but emotional appeals are always easy to understand.