Cheney Goes on the Offensive

WSJ - June 22, 2006

CHICAGO -- Across the country, Republicans are on the defensive in this year's battle for control of Congress. Vice President Dick Cheney came here Friday to enjoy a rare chance to play offense.

Mr. Cheney addressed a packed ballroom in an upscale downtown hotel on behalf of David McSweeney, an investment banker working to unseat one of the few Democratic incumbents seen as vulnerable in November: Rep. Melissa Bean, who hails from a traditionally Republican district outside the city.

The vice president used the occasion to ramp up the White House's increasingly aggressive campaign to portray Democrats as weak on national security. He said the call by some Democratic Party leaders to withdraw troops from Iraq would "simply validate the al Qaeda strategy and guarantee more terrorist attacks in the future."

First, the Dems are weak on national Security. They have yet to demostrate the ability to lead on the world stage which is demanded from the U.S. as the world superpower; a position so coveted that only God himself can bestow upon a country.

Secondly, the liberal WSJ continued talking about how Republicans and the conservative message in America are in jeopardy this fall. As in years past conservatives will continue to defy "the mainstream media" and show up to the polls on election day and continuing the persuit of liberty.