Patty Murray versus Patty Murray

Patty Murray’s argument is not really with George Nethercutt. Her real debate is with Patty Murray. What is it Patty? Are we to defend our country with ordinance or au pairs? Bullets or baby sitters? Intelligence or insipidity? Does Patty Murray intend to dispatch our enemies by having them laugh themselves to death?
The issue has been fermenting for a couple of years now. Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Patty Murray said something so breathtakingly naïve, and frankly stupid, that it casts doubt upon her qualifications to serve in any position of responsibility. I’m not sure I would trust her to go back to the classroom and teach elementary school kids again.
These days, it is common for politicians to choose a few words out of context and grossly exaggerate or otherwise knowingly and intentionally distort their original meaning. Patty Murray cannot shelter behind that excuse, because her wisdom was recorded and there is no way for her to argue that she has been misunderstood, or as she once said, “construed.” And because this is a year in which she has to defend her seat in the United States Senate, her thoughts are now being played over the air daily for all the world to hear.
Her opponent in the upcoming race for the United States Senate seat from Washington, George Nethercutt, could not resist the temptation to play an unedited tape of Patty Murray’s speech in his campaign advertisements. Washingtonians are permitted to listen as she explains that we have much to learn from Osama Bin Laden. According to Murray, Osama Bin Laden is a champion in the Arab world because he has instituted the domestic agenda of the Democratic Party in the Middle East.
"We've got to ask, why is this man so popular around the world? He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that.”
Those were her words. And remarkably, in the worldview of Patty Murray as well as many of her supporters, allowing everyone to hear the thoughts of Washington’s senior senator constitutes dirty campaigning. Patty Murray must have a very low opinion of her constituents’ intelligence if she believes that she can convince voters that hearing her thoughts, in her own voice, constitutes gutter politics.
On the other hand, perhaps she has a justification for her low estimation of the voters. They did elect her twice.
Her defense is typically insipid. How dare anyone question her patriotism? One need not bother with questioning her patriotism. Her judgment is in doubt here.
So profound is Patty Murray’s ignorance that her drivel failed to grasp even the most basic appreciation of life in Afghanistan under that Taliban. Even if Bin Laden really did build day care centers, what would Afghanistan’s women need with one anyway? Bin Laden’s Afghanistan did not even permit women to leave the house.
The mind of Patty Murray relies less upon genuine thought than it does upon slogans. Her worldview was constructed upon the sixties radical assumption that America is the root cause of all the world’s evil. Blame America first.
There is such a thing as a thoughtful liberal. Patty Murray is not one of those. If a thought cannot fit within the space of a bumper sticker, then it probably exceeds her attention span. To Patty Murray, a slogan like, “you can’t hug a baby with nuclear arms,” represents deep and profound thinking. And if an idea doesn’t conform to her clichés, then it can’t fit into her thinking any more than a square peg fits into a round hole.
Nowhere in Patty Murray’s leftist programming is there room for the real reason for Osama Bin Laden popularity in the Muslim world. He’s loved because he kills Jews and Americans.
Murray argues that she in fact does support our national defense. Her words on the tape do not specifically address her attitude toward defense. But she’s just trying to change the subject. But since she did raise the issue, she has assembled a 12 year voting record to the contrary that’s as incontrovertible as the tape of her speech.
Who should we believe, the Murray of the campaign trail, or the Murray of record?