I love Orson Scott Card as a writer. His political views where not commonly something he spent much time openly discusing, and so while I knew him for a Democrat, that never effected my ability to enjoy his fiction.

It was with great interest that I read a recent article he wrote in The Ornery American. I though I would share a bit of it here.

H/T to Wizbang for pointing me to the article.

There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that’s the War on Terror.
And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.

If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.

Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case — if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.

But at least there will be a chance.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — the party I joined back in the 1970s — is dead. Of suicide.

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I hope somebody emerges in one of the parties, at least, who commits himself or herself to continuing Bush’s careful, wise, moderate, and so-far-successful policies in the War on Terror.

Meanwhile, we have this election. You have your vote. For the sake of our children’s future — and for the sake of all good people in the world who don’t get to vote in the only election that matters to their future, too — vote for no Congressional candidate who even hints at withdrawing from Iraq or opposing Bush’s leadership in the war. And vote for no candidate who will hand control of the House of Representatives to those who are sworn to undo Bush’s restrained but steadfast foreign policy in this time of war.

You can find Car’s complete article here, and I recommend a read. It is not short, as anyone who reads Card knows he is rarely at a loss for words, but well worth the investment in time.