Posted on 09/27/2004 9:02:45 AM PDT by pabianice
The Kerry-Edwards ticket is in trouble. For the first time since the beginning of the presidential campaign of 2004, Kerry-Edwards has trailed Bush-Cheney for nearly a month. Among being disemboweled by scathing TV ads (while crying, “Jimmy, make them stop!”), with the public's growing familiarity with Kerry's Marxist voting record, and with Edwards having turned-out to be that smarmy lawyer you see on TV begging you to call him to “get what’s coming to you” after you’ve been stupid enough to run-over your own foot while changing the oil in your car, the Democratic campaign has been wandering, rudderless. It reminds me of a cartoon that was posted prominently in the nav room of my first Navy squadron. The cartoon shows the pilot, calling back to the navigator, “Hey, Nav; where are we?”, to which the navigator replies, “Well, Flight, according to my accurate plotting, savy technique, and superior professional judgment, we’re lost… but making excellent time!” Even the Eloi, who were always Kerry’s strongest supporters and spend the weekend reading The New York Times over their lattes while we Morlocks trudge off to work or religions services, are beginning to complain about why Kerry has lost the election to “that moron cowboy.” Battalions of Liberal lawyers are being rushed to every swing state to be ready to file challenges to the vote immediately after polls close on November 2. This one may not make it through the courts until the summer of 2005.
Nonetheless, it is becoming clear through polling data (always suspect, especially in such cases as Zogby, which has openly begun shilling for Kerry) that Kerry’s real support has never reached 45% of those polled, and that in the past several weeks, the “undecided” have been breaking for Bush two to one. Unsurprisingly, the Kerry people, whose entire campaign has been based upon the slogan, “Vote for me; I’m so not Bush,” having exhausted every old Liberal lie since FDR, has recently decided to run on the anti-Iraqi War ticket. This effort has gone so far as to show Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi as a Muppet, controlled by puppeteer Cheney from beneath the dais, while Bush is lampooned as sitting at a card table in a corner of the Oval Office, filling-in The Big Army Coloring Book. This sort of snot-nosed viciousness is something from which most Americans recoil, a reaction lost on the likes of Carville and Lockhart, busy defending the CBS National Guard memos as “questionable but accurate.” Then, too, the thousands of feet of film showing Kerry only recently supporting Bush on the Iraq War gives people cognitive dissonance severe enough to make one’s head explode, a la “Scanners.”
As a drowning man grasping at a nearby swimmer who is himself in trouble, Kerry’s army of darkness has turned him, robot-like, to embrace national security as his main, last ditch issue -- just in time for anti-Kerry ads to blanket the airwaves with old movies of Kerry kissing Daniel Ortega’s tuchis in Nicaragua and slipping the tongue to Jane Fonda at an anti-American rally in Paris. The undecided voter group is splitting 2-1 for Bush and Kerry knows that the “debates” will be his last chance to fool just enough people for just long enough to maybe win the election. As a Vietnam vet I recently received an urgent email from a group called “not so swift vets,” a wormy group of Kerryites who claim to be Vietnam vets dedicated to destroying the Swift Boat Vets and all other organized opposition to their man. When I replied that I find Kerry’s post-war actions slanderous and reason alone to have sent him to Leavenworth, the www.notsobrightvets.org replied that I was clearly too stupid to understand their erudite arguments.
You see, a new word has entered the campaign: Beslan. Over 1,500 Russian women and children were tortured and 300 murdered by people indistinguishable from those who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001. In a world that thought it had seen it all, the film of eight-year-olds being shot in the back as they ran, screaming, bloody, and naked, from a terrorist explosion, was too much. Now, as the formerly undecided voter group (especially women) swings towards Bush over national security, barring another “Bush DUI!” dirty trick from the Party that Kicks to the Groin in elections, Kerry knows he’s going to lose. Nader is going to be on the ballot in over half of the states, and he isn’t going to be taking Bush voters. Under our Electoral College system, a 52% - 46% - 2% vote for president can create an electoral landslide for the winner. To make matters worse, last week, when it was announced that Arizona, a swing state, was tilting towards Bush, Maria Theresa Heinz Kerry escaped from her place of captivity just long enough to invite Arizona voters to, uh, have sexual relations with themselves because “Arizona is just one state in the state,” simultaneously putting Arizona in the Bush column while displaying her near encyclopedic levels of ignorance and rabidity. Subsequently, she was recaptured, rewrapped in duct tape, and redeposited in Donna Brazille’s windowless basement, this time chained more securely to the radiator. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry has the highest of what I call the S-Factor: she’s the person you most want to reach at through the TV screen and slap. Repeatedly. She manages to hit just about every bad note within the range of human hearing. Snot-nosed, abrasive, condescending, snarly, obscenely rich (but that’s OK if you say you’re a Liberal), and imperious, she is pretty much a political candidate’s worst nightmare wife. In a campaign in which John Kerry must connect to most Americans, Maria Theresa makes the average person wince. Wincing is not good for getting votes. Seeing the “We Love Theresa!” placards -- so hurriedly and desperately drawn-up the night of the Democrat Convention and waved by the party faithful after Ms. Kerry did an Ozzy Osborne and bit the head off a live reporter after her speech on “Civility in Politics” – was like watching the old bastards who run Beijing smile into the cameras after their tanks had slaughtered the crowds in Tiananmen Square in 1991. They loved it in Harvard Square but to most of America it was like watching an episode of “Farscape.” More and more voters are openly saying that they just can’t stand the idea of this delicate South African blossom becoming First Lady.
Now come the debates and the public will, for the first time, get a dedicated, long version eyeful and earful of Kerry. And John Kerry is the student council president and teacher’s suck-up you knew in the 11th grade who did extra credit work in social studies and came to the junior prom with his date in a limo. I can’t wait for the first moment when Bush says something that the thin-skinned Kerry perceives as an insult or attack. At that moment, his face will freeze-over with that, well, French look of distain, he will stand more stiffly, and unless he watches himself, that crappy index finger of his will reappear, jabbing, jabbing at Bush and the rest of us dolts who are just too stupid and unsophisticated to understand why he, as the smartest person in the world (ok, second smartest, next to Hillary) should be president. This is what the Kerry people fear most. They know that presidential debates are about 20% policy and 80% likeability. Even Kerry’s supporters don’t like him. Bush is the guy you’d invite over for a beer and a barbeque. Kerry is the guy who gives you a colonoscopy.
John Kerry’s disconnect from the average American is wholly debilitating. I served with over 600 men in Vietnam and not one brought their own film crew with them to record their heroics. His execrable, treasonous words upon returning from Vietnam should alone be enough to show just how alien America and Americans are to him. To John Kerry, the US is basically an unruly collection of dirty, poorly-educated people who need him to lead them into the light – with the help of the cultured Europeans and the United Nations. The more he talks, the more people see that he is really an alien, crashed to Earth and struggling to live among the primitives until help arrives from the United Federation of Liberals. That he received no post-convention “bounce” is more than the Democrats’ claim that most people had already decided for whom to vote. That Kerry received no bounce is really the result of Kerry having beamed viewers up to the Mothership for several hours, to be regaled with tales of the intergalactic peace and harmony that are being kept from them by Darth Bush and his Imperial Storm Troopers. People watched for a bit, blinked, and then switched to “reality TV” to watch a middle-aged school teacher beat-up two NFL linemen. No bounce there, but hey; at least there’s an alternative to the SciFi Channel.
After the 9-11 attack, while New York and the rest of the country was staggering under the impact of the event and collectively having to sit down for a moment to keep from falling down, one columnist summed-up the new political atmosphere as ‘the return of the real men.’ She meant the firefighters, police, and other rescue workers who strode into that hell of fire and rubble and screams of pain and blood and death and carried out the dead and wounded and saved lives and cleared the rubble and did what had to be done in unimaginable circumstances. She noted that the Eloi were nowhere to be seen when the chips were down because they would never think of getting their hands dirty, let alone endanger themselves, and because they would be useless in such a situation by virtue of personal weakness. John Kerry is the candidate of the Eloi, who, if elected, will fight a more “sensitive and effective war on terror” by going, hat in hand, to the French Germans, and others of Old Europe for help in Iraq, and these people will, of course, leap to send what little armed force they have to help us. Right.
In the debates people will get an earful of both George Bush and John Kerry. George Bush, whatever you think of his politics, comes across as natural and honest. When he looks you in the eye you automatically see this. When John Kerry looks you in the eye, you know he is seeing another dolt to whom he must be polite to get his vote. And while the Dems seem to have for the most part silenced Maria Theresa, let’s face it: the ROTC building-burning Liberals (without whom Kerry cannot win) LIKE her mouth: she is one of the few vents they have for the bile they choked on at the Convention for the appearance of party unity. Left to her own devices, she can no more shut up and sit down for the good of the party than shop at Wal*Mart (‘What are those wire-thingies on wheels? Shopping Carts? How Quaint!’). While Laura Bush is genuine and genuinely admirable, Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is just what she seems: a collage of Liberal ugliness and hypocrisy.
So the 527 ads will continue, thanks to the brain-dead McCain-Feingold Act that "takes soft money out of politics," and they will continue to roast both Bush and Kerry. CBS and Big Media will drop any pretense of not being whores for the Democrats by openly installing red lights over their news room doors. And in the next several weeks, George Bush, halting delivery, lingual mismanagement and all, will defeat John Kerry in the only debate that matters this year: who will take tough action to save my children same from those Beslan monsters, and who will, instead, call Kofi Annan to discuss a properly nuanced, politically-sensitive response.
LTN72@charter.net
Bush has to put him away.
Bump for future reading.
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I remember them saying the same thing about AlGore?
Is this your writing? It is absolutely wonderful. So many scathing and terse points, I don't know which one to excerpt. But here's one that had me grinning:
"displaying her near encyclopedic levels of ignorance and rabidity"
Kudos to whomever wrote this!!
"Bite the head off a live reporter!" I just went visual! ROFLMAO!
So MANY wonderful visuals, 'eh?
Delicious.
Devastating, and true. This is a great piece, with all the hard edges still in place, ready to pierce the smug superiority of candidate sKerry and his pitiful posse.
LOL..
I intend to use that one ;-)
GREAT post! I especially like President Bush's face as he's trying not to laugh!
Reminiscent of Firehat
Good job
And I loved the reference to the movie, "The Time Machine."
'The Yale Debater'
Actually there was a NYTs article posted here that tells how Bush and Kerry had the same debate professor at Yale, at different times.....of course.
Fabulous imagery!
Wish I knew who wrote this.
" While Laura Bush is genuine and genuinely admirable, Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry is just what she seems: a collage of Liberal ugliness and hypocrisy. "
At least she's genuine. LOL Her husband sure isn't.
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