T
he names Ronald Cartland, Robert Boothby, Harold Nicholson were absolutely unknown to me a year ago. I certainly knew of Harold Macmillian, but I had no idea of the lives these men lead not just in oppostion not to their national policy, but in opposition to their own PARTY'S most important policy. I had no idea of the personal impact the conscience of these men caused to their own lives via view of their actions as betrayal.
Today we have a Mr. Brian Baird of Washington .
MoveOn targets pro-surge Democrat
August 29, 2007 Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue. On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman in his own district.
Baird recently returned from a trip to Iraq and reversed his position on a withdrawal timetable, citing military progress in the four-year-old war.
MoveOn is calling the move a “flip-flop” and says it goes against the views of his constituents.The ad does not make specific reference to Baird’s conversion. Instead, it features a soldier who served in Iraq talking about the amount of resistance troops encountered and at the end asks viewers to tell Baird to bring the troops home.
The men mentioned above were singled out by the Conservative Party, and suffered all, an organized effort to replace them with others who would toe the party line. It was an effort at ostracism, intimidation and economic ressure to some. What was that party line? Well, it was the most popular policy in nearly all of British history:
Appeasement
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