Ok, maybe not but…

BUT NOT in a Brokeback Mountian sort of way.

I have posted many, many, many Mark Steyn articles in which I have used such phrases as:

They are all true. Today I will enter a new phrase into the mix:

Today he nails the Iraqi elections and the limp-wristed, pansy-ass Democrats.

Well, that old Iraqi quagmire just keeps getting worse and worse, if only for the Democratic Party. What was the straw they were clutching at back in January? Oh, yeah, sure, gazillions of Kurds and Shi’ites might have gone to the polls, but where were the Sunni?

As some of us said at the time, the Sunni’ll come out tomorrow. And so they did. On Thursday, they voted in record numbers, leaving Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats frantically scrambling for another disaffected Iraqi minority group they could use as proof that the whole crazy neocon war-for-oil scam was a bust.

It is true the Democrats have penned their entire political future on the need for Iraq to fail. Oh sure, they will go their graves denying that, but all you have to do is watch the news and particularly the talking heads on Sunday.

…who needs Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger [from Brokeback Mountain] when you’ve got Howard Dean and Abu Musad al-Zarqawi? Yee-haw. And, if that sounds unfair, pick almost any recent statement by a big-time Dem cowboy and tell me how exactly it would differ from the pep talks Zarqawi gives his dwindling band of head-hackers — Mr. Dean arguing that America can’t win in Iraq, Barbara Boxer demanding the troops begin withdrawing Dec. 15, John Kerry accusing American soldiers of terrorizing Iraqi women and children, Jack Murtha declaring the U.S. Army is utterly broken. Pepper ‘em with a handful of “Praise be to Allahs” and any one of those statements could have been uttered by Zarqawi.

I’ve always wanted to know what it would take to rip someone a new arse hole. Looks like I found out. How does that feel Dr. Dean?

That doesn’t leave many folks over on the other side except Zarqawi and Mr. Dean. What do the two have in common? They’re both foreigners, neither of whom have the slightest interest in the Iraqi people.

And no, I’m not questioning their patriotism. Honestly, who can be bothered questioning anything so footling as Howard Dean’s patriotism? If you’re a Democratic patriot and outraged by my linking your party to the “insurgents,” take it up with your leaders: They’re the ones who overinvested in American failure. Instead of being angry at me, you should be ashamed of them.

Game set and match.

And finally:

The Anglo-American political tradition is the most successful in the world in part because of the concept of “loyal opposition.” Yes, the party out of office opposes the party in office and hopes to supplant it, but not at the expense of the broader political culture. A party that winds up cheerleading for a deranged loser death cult is the very definition of pointless self-defeating sour oppositionism. So, as Zarqawi flails, Messrs. Dean and Murtha and Kerry flail ever more pathetically, too. Just wait till the WMD turn up.

Unfortunately Mr. Steyn, the WMD’s will not turn up until Assad is tossed out of Syria or we invade Syria.

Go read the entire thing.