Posted on 10/08/2004 8:31:02 PM PDT by Without Barbarians
Bush won, and John Kerry demonstrated he can be more of a dork than Al Gore when it comes to quoting numbers that are based on nothing but campaign artifice and imaginary numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. recent
It was very gratifying to see John Kerry put on the defensive and forced to rely on the retail scare tactics about healthcare, Medicare, and social security that have relegated the Democratic Party to the status of the disloyal opposition. Kerry bloviated endlessly about rolling back tax cuts to pay for healthcare and inspecting airplanes, in bridges, in tunnels, under your fingernails, behind your ears, ad nauseum. Does anyone expect rolling back tax cuts on those earning over $200,000 will generate enough revenue to pay for all the things Kerry listed?
And on those vaunted style points, Kerry was atrocious. For the media to conclude that he won would involve so much spin the Earth would be thrown off its axis. He dropped more names in this debate than precision air strikes on Baghdad. Do I care about his meeting with Michael J. Fox? Did Michael J. Fox give a damn about people with Parkinson’s before he discovered he had it? Christopher Reeve hasn’t been compelling since Superman 2. It’s enough already.
An discussing the war, Kerry dropped the name of every general that retired in the last four years, including General Shinseki, General Baka, General Shalikashvili, General Custer, General Mills, General Motors, etc. He might as well have named General Calrissian and Admiral Akbar while he was at it, at least we would understand what he was talking about. And why drop the names of Republican Senators who disagreed with the President’s strategy in Iraq? Are we supposed to infer that Republicans’ opinion on the war is more credible than that of Democrats? Or are we supposed to be concerned that Bush didn’t follow in lockstep with the party elders? Isn’t independent thinking in a President a good thing? Oh wait, I get it. On this one issue, Senator Lugar is right; on everything else he’s wrong.
I get it, Kerry’s crazy.
Watch the Democrats will spin apoplectically about how questions on stem cell research and abortion were framed from the conservative standpoint (embryonic research kills life and pro-life, respectively), but this simply proves that they have been given a free pass for years to frame the debate from their standpoint for so long they can’t think on their feet when it’s turned around.
Frankly, Bush said all the rights things, the right way. We have to wait and see if voters were listening.
lol
bush shoulda name dropped zell miller on him...
How can you make pure blogs like that? I haven't been a freeper very long and all I've figured out how to do is to link a comment with an article. I'd appreciate some instruciton.
It is BS that Kerry name drops Republican Senators....unfortunately, I think that the President forgot to insert the fact that all those senators support him and even Campaign for him in their states.
Excellent points!
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