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The media consensus seems to be that Kerry's about to "break out": VP announcement, convention, 9/11 Commission report. In their view, Effin will surge ahead prior to the GOP convention and there's little Bush can do about it.

Let me add a contrarian view. I think the pubbies should remain relatively quiet during the donkey confab in Boston. The Dems are in such a lather that (I believe) they're in danger of pulling another "Wellstone"...letting down their masks and allowing the whole country to see their true instincts. Their convention can go two ways:

1) Play up the patriotic. Doing so will enrage their anti-American left wing. Lefties will appear on TV attacking Bush despite the party's efforts to pretend the lefties don't exist. If the confab is too patriotic, the A.N.S.W.E.R. folks may even begin attacking the Dems ala 1968.

But 2) If they play to the anti-war, anti-American crowd they risk alienating the vast middle American electorate.

I think they've got a real dilemma on their hands. Which way will they go?????

I am having trouble trying to figure out what these dems are up to with Kerry. This weekend, with him pretending to be W, dressing in jeans, toting a gun, admiring the cows, eating ribs later today-well it is so bizarre. He looks so out of place. I will not post photos, they are on Drudge.

Maybe they are banking on a terror problem and lots of anti-Americanism at the Olympics following the Convention that Kerry will get a bounce from?

I was just reading Maureen Dowd's column for today-filled with hate and venom for W and Cheney as it always is, and has been since 2000. She did not even mention the 4th of July.

Dick Cheney was in Wheeling, WV, yesterday evening. I couldn't make it, due to family obligations, but saw it live on the local news. Wow! Some 2,000 enthusiastic supporters joined him at the high school. Meanwhile, fewer than 20 Democrats held a protesting event nearby. Ha! We had twice that number freeping Kerry when he appeared in Wheeling a few months ago, and this is a very predominantly Democrat/union region. There is reason for hope.

I liked this quote from George Washington in 1792, reprinted in our church bulletin this morning:

I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consder the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.