[Pokey78]

Peggy ping!

[lainde]

Great!

[FlashBack]

"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."

Had to pick myself up off of the floor after that line!!!!

Great Article!!!!!!

Peggy Ping!!!!!


G.

[MeekOneGOP]

Good article on John Kerry by Peggy! ...

Peggy Noonan: JFK Disease

Excerpt:

JFK was an interesting man, privately complicated and publicly merry. When his motorcade went by in 1960, women--especially nuns, I once read--couldn't help themselves; they jumped up and down in excitement. The Kennedy campaign called them the jumpers. Mr. Kerry on the other hand--well, no one jumps for him.

I didn't think a man with a face that anguished would make it this far. I mean without other qualities that overwhelm and even counter the message of the face, which is: I suffer from mild clinical depression, do you?

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[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?

[BlueAngel]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

[hershey]

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

[cgk]

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