Peggy Noonan: JFK Disease

Opinion Journal ^ | 03/04/04 | Peggy Noonan

[js1138]

Peggy Noonan and Ann Coulter. Could any political party wish for more than that?

[Sabertooth]

That Mr. Kerry is a boring man means the election will be dirty and vicious. If he were interesting and dynamic and sunny, if he seemed both experienced and sincere, he arguably could win the upcoming race without letting his campaign get unduly nasty. But he is a charm-free zone on the stump, and he has offered no galvanizing political philosophy or higher meaning. His people will feel the only way he can win is to be uniquely destructive.

How do we know that is coming? It has already begun. First the sustained attack on the president's National Guard service. It is early for such attacks. Second, the indiscreet threat by an unnamed Kerry adviser as reported weeks ago in the New York Times: "Everything--everything--is on the table." He, or she, has since been silenced. But the point was made.

What's that supposed to mean? Cocaine? Alcohol?

Does anyone think Kerry didn't inhale on the antiwar trail?

And there is the repeated insistence of those around Mr. Kerry that they're just not going to take it the way Michael Dukakis did; they'll fight when they're attacked. In this they are peddling a story line to the press: Democrats are unfairly attacked and have been too polite, too gentle, too liberal to fight back.

This would be the Michael Dukakis who was Willie Hortoned by Al Gore?

Al Gore, the Republican?

Sounds like Kerry thinks he's vulnerable as soft on crime. He's probably right, though less so than Dukakis was, since Kerry's never held an executive political office.

I wonder what Kerry's record is on voting to confirm judges who habitually release repeat rapists on technicalities?

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[BlueAngel]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

[SupplySider]

If insane isn't the right word, what do you call a man who holds so many contradictory positions and thinks he's the real JFK?

An unprincipled opportunist who believes his own talking points.

That was a great article, but she failed to mention the borderline insanity of Al Gore. Thank goodness for the Republicans in Florida who showed up and voted.

[68skylark]

Very good article. I didn't know Peggy Noonan could be so catty -- it's really funny!

[Sloth]

[Gore] even wore makeup that echoed the heightened color of Mr. Reagan's cheeks. He wound up looking not like Mr. Reagan but like a turn-of-the-century madam in a San Francisco whorehouse, but that's not important.

LOL... if I didn't read the by-line I'd think that was Coulter's writing.

[firewalk]

bttt

[jjm2111]

Where was that?

[hershey]

Peggy's being too nice to Kerry. He doesn't deserve it.

[SwinneySwitch]

...threw snowballs, bowled with oranges...

[buffyt]

They are already trying to make her crimes more distant in memory but they are doing it by claiming over and over that she didn't commit them, like murder of Vince Foster for one. Marianne Means article in today's paper mentions that one.

[des]

Russert surely did his best to link JFK and Kerry Sunday.
Blatant and silly.

[cgk]

bflr