Mark Steyn: John Kerry is all tied up in nuances

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/02/04 | Mark Steyn

[alwaysconservative]

That one was great, and so was this one:

Last spring and summer, I went to three Kerry campaign events in New Hampshire, intending to write about them for the Telegraph. Each time, I staggered groggily out of the diner or American Legion hall and, after checking my pulse and administering self-resuscitation, I figured that everything he said was so rambling and platitudinous that to inflict it on readers would be unfair, if not actually career-jeopardising.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, my friend :-)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!

[GeronL]

BUMP, good evening

[JohnHuang2]

Backatya, bud

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[dennisw]

Kerry's your guy - or your nuancy boy.............

Hhahahahaha

[dennisw]

Kerry's your guy - or your nuancy boy


Nancy boy indeed

[annyokie]

Au contraire: Florence King in National Review.

[Texasforever]

Heck Kerry doesn't even need a VP. He can be both.

[annyokie]

http://www.nationalreview.com/king/king200402270920.asp

[lainde]

bttt

[MEG33]

It was the NUANCE statement by the NYT that I especially wanted you to see.What a rationalization!

I love Steyn.

[JohnHuang2]

G'evening, my friend

[Ruth A.]

Oh, how he makes me laugh. And I love a man who makes me laugh.

[noodler]

Seriously.This guy has to be some sort of mouthpiece for another country.We haven't really got to this but the next election will tell what we deserve. Those who've been there before will hopefully be prepared.I really don't think it will happen tho the culture is being brooded for it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bush-bashing: international sport?***Some Bush-bashers merely make fun of the president's personal traits and failings. "The Bush Dyslexicon" by Mark Crispin Miller is a compilation of the president's public-speaking slipups (of which there are indeed many). There are websites devoted to photos of the president looking like a chimpanzee. In Britain, reports have referred to Bush as a "cowboy," a "redneck," and a "vulgar Texan." Such name-calling is a sorry substitute for debate, and surely undeserving of good Americans' time or consideration, much less their votes. Worst of all, some in the anti-Bush brigade try to scare people into voting against him. In "Bushwhacked," Ivins and Mr. Dubose tell of a New Jersey family allegedly being poisoned by an insecticide plant because the Republican-run Environmental Protection Agency refuses to do anything about it; they write of food conglomerates that allegedly knowingly spread deadly listeria, as another downside to "life in George W. Bush's America." Raising people's fears about their health is surely the lowest form of political engagement. It plays on irrational concerns rather than exploring any hopes and ambitions they might have for reshaping the world outside their front doors.

With little by way of political conviction, many Bush-haters resort to moral blackmailing, or hectoring the electorate. Bush is an idiot, they say, so you'd have to be an even bigger idiot to vote for him. Or they claim that voting Bush is bad for your health; or you might inadvertently help to poison some poor family in New Jersey.

Taken together, all this looks like an incoherent rant, a scream of rage against the Bush administration or "stupid white men," or chemical plants, or global warming, or political power in general. The aim may be to expose Bush as incompetent, stupid, and dangerous - but the anti-Bush brigades often do a better job of exposing themselves as politically lazy, cynical, and lacking in vision.

Indeed, if they aren't careful, such critics could prove to be Bush's secret weapon: The American electorate may tire of being cajoled and frightened into voting against Bush, rather than politically convinced to do so. Some might even be tempted to vote for him as a way of snubbing the critics who have patronized them. America's voters deserve better than this.***

[Carolinamom]

I must have had temporary amnesia.......Florence King! Thanks for the link as well. (I've read all her columns and books.)

[PogySailor]

He was at it again this weekend. "This President always makes decisions late," he huffed apropos Haiti. Hang on. He's just spent the past year complaining that Bush makes decisions too early, rushing in when he could have spent another year or so chit-chatting with the French.

Hey, at least he's consistent at flip-flopping. You can rely on Kerry to be all over the map on any given topic.

[SquirrelKing]

Thanks for the PING! Kerry = *yawn*