Bush: Put on your bunker gear and turn up the heat!

The latest example of Republicans whining because Democrats call them names. Why do these people think there is some advantage in dainty manners? Call the Democrats names. Even just the right names for Democrats are pretty awful without exaggerating, and this causes the squeamish Republicans to either sanitize their descriptions of our enemies - for example, by not calling them enemies - or even to resort to outright lies to describe Democrats - like calling John Kerry a patriot.

To call the Democrats socialists, demagogues, liars, dangerous villains is merely to describe their better qualities. Cheney comes close to such honesty from time to time, at least what gets to us through the press filter, but Bush and his spokesmen almost never. To call them communists, subversives, greedy, power mad tyrants is entirely justified on the basis of their public record.

If the Republicans won't name Islamofascism as the enemy in the war and we won't name socialism as the enemy in the presidential race, is it any wonder we have trouble winning? Know your enemy. Call him by his right name. The truth shall make you free.

On a deeper level, we fight not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of the air, against spiritual wickedness in high places. It's time to purge the GOP leadership of people who don't understand this. Faint-hearted allies are worse than useless, they spread despair in our own ranks.

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