If you ever wondered…………………………..

……………… why the Real Sporer calls the Democrats the party of the four “Ds”-deception, division despair and defeat, the Des Moines Register’s in depth coverage of the Harkin-Vilsack response to the Swift illegal immigration raids provides vivid proof. It also means I need my readers' help to find a synonym for “pander” that begins with the letter D.

A December 19 story regarding Tom Vilsack’s take on the Swift illegal alien raids commenced this week’s lesson in the politics of gratuitous attack and shallow pander. Any fair reading of the mindlessness of the attack, which centers on the Vilsack Administration being uninformed about the raids by the Federal authorities leaves any thinking human in no doubt that those federal authorities who were enforcing federal law might have thought telling the Vilsack Administration could result in the Democrats interfering with the raid.

I'm not sure which is my favorite complaint, and these are both richer than Krusty Kreme with double Kreme. First, Gov. Vilsack raises the hypothetical specter of impairing state investigations. Now, I ask you readers, don’t you think that busting a vast multi-state human smuggling and identity theft conspiracy that involves at least 1200 people violating serious federal laws isn’t a little more important than whatever hypothetical investigation state officials could have been conducting had they actually, as in happening in the real world, been conducting an investigation that was impaired by the inconvenient enforcement of federal law. Remember those scary words “federal preemption” that liberals used to intrude the federal government into every orifice of the body politic Governor? Well, that sword sometimes cuts both ways. The other truly unbelievable complaint is the lack of a media plan? Like what to tell the press is more important than capturing 1200 or so illegal aliens, a couple of dozen of whom certainly appear to have committed serious crimes while already illegally residing in Iowa.

Then, quite predictably, our junior Senator leaped to the attack, accusing the Bush Administration of violating human rights-without proof of course, but then when did Sen. Harkin ever allow something like a fact to interfere with an opportunity to sew disrespect for the United States. D’ya ever wonder what the American global image would be if self loathing Americans like Tom Harkin and Ted Kennedy brought the nature of their rhetoric a little more in line with reality? More apropos` perhaps, d’ya ever wonder how the same non schizophrenic mind could simultaneously find a lack of “human rights” in the lawful arrests of hundreds of criminals, whose very presence in our country is illegal, yet find Daniel Ortega worthy of support? How much due process did the Sandinistas provide the victims of their mass political executions, Senator?

Then, bringing it all home the Democrats return to their favorite pander tactic, the children. You guessed it; both Harkin and Vilsack attack their government for abusing the children and families affected by their own or a family member’s arrest. Criminals typically hurt their families worst of all because the arrest of criminals really interrupts family life but that isn’t an excuse to attack the people who arrest the criminals.

This is the political jabberwocky with which we have allowed the Democrats to define debate in America. People get hurt when criminals get caught but more people get hurt a lot worse when criminals don’t get caught, and it really is that simple. There is no evidence to support any of their complaints, unless you include the self serving and uncorroborated declarations of the people arrested and the usual “human rights” activists who reject all concept of governmental authority they don’t weal while admiring or excusing the most vicious of human rights violators, like Tom Harkin’s political mentors Daniel Ortega and Fidel Castro.

This latest Democrat attack is straight out of the same old playbook-deceive the public so as to divide people along ethnic lines, breed despair and alienation in an increasingly unrealistic population and seek to make defeat a virtue. Democrats, who desperately want to pander to voting citizens of Hispanic descent and, if recent history is any evidence, desperately want non citizens voting as well, want the public to accept defeat in our attempts to control the borders so that their agenda of unlimited and uncontrolled immigration becomes reality.

So, think of a synonym for pander that begins with D, and tell everyone you know about this latest insanity from the party of distortion and about the great Republican District Attorney Matt Whitaker who is looking out for the taxpayers, the legal residents, and the victims of identity theft.