The Silver Lining

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's maniacal ravings against President Bush were truly disgusting but I believe, in the end, they will only serve to help our cause. Don't buy the "defense" of Bush by American liberals like Charles Rangel and Nancy Pelosi. Their defense speaks to the silver lining I see in Chavez's vitriol. The truth is that the Democrats were forced, kicking and screaming, into this pseudo-defense of the president because they see clearly that if they don't create some noticeable difference between their criticism of Bush and Chavez’s criticism, they will be lumped together and rejected by the people. The Democrat’s criticism of the president over the past several years has been just as bad, if not worse, than that of Chavez. Democrats see Bush rising in the polls, and his popularity will threaten their chances at winning control of the House in November. If Americans finally say "we've had enough" with the relentless, hateful attacks on the president, they will see that Chavez and the radical left of this country are one in the same, utterly indistinguishable. Ideologically speaking, both the left and Chavez are staunch socialists and subsequently, hostile to the United States and President Bush. The pathetic “defense” offered by Rangel is an attempt to mitigate the fury most sensible Americans feel toward Bush’s critics.