Posted on 04/28/2004 5:04:09 PM PDT by luv2ski
There is palpable fear among Democrats as they contemplate their presumptive nominee, John Kerry, the candidate who couldn't keep his lies straight.
Kerry followed a week made disastrous by his military records fiasco with a Monday morning performance with Charlie Gibson of ABC's Good Morning America that will live in TV history alongside the 1980 Roger Mudd-Teddy Kennedy exchange through which it dawned on America that a senator in search of a verb wasn't really equipped to be a president.
Gibson's refusal to be deflected by Kerry's rambling incoherence led to a post-interview denunciation of ABC by Kerry. "They are doing the work of the Republican National Committee," Kerry muttered. Yeah, that's the ticket. Jennings et al., are working for the GOP which is working for Fox News' Roger Ailes who is, of course, working for Halliburton. Hillary's vast, right-wing conspiracy just got vaster. Like the Borg, the VRWC has absorbed Disney-owned ABC. Who knew?
There are powers in the Democratic Party, and they cannot be pleased. Tom Daschle, for one, has got to be thinking through the impact of a presidential contest that is over once the polls close at 6 in the East. That sort of wave in 1980 took out George McGovern and a lot of famous liberals just like Daschle.
Streisand's got to be worried as well. She knows what happens when the movie tanks in the first 10 minutes. People return her phone calls, even though she doesn't make any sense at all. Rob Reiner knows a thing or two about stiffs as well. Remember 1994's "North"? Neither does anyone else. Reiner knows that hopes and dreams do not a success make.
And the Clintons-in-Exile, they must hear the music. Forget their ethics and policies, they have a well-deserved reputation for perfect pitch when it comes to politics. Imagine Bill and Hill watching Kerry strangle himself. How they must laugh ... then cry. Hillary gets the nod in 2008, but what will be left after the wipeout?
Another movie analogy: Jim Carrey in the bathroom scene from "Liar, Liar" when he tries to injure himself. That's John Kerry over the past six weeks, throwing himself against walls in front of the national TV audience with the effect of inflicting maximum damage on himself.
It has worked.
Too well, I am afraid. Dems know he's a loser. But can anything be done?
Who knows? Don't bother looking up the rules governing nominations. There were rules in Florida, and the Florida Supreme Court tore those up when Gore needed help. There were rules in New Jersey, but when Torricelli flamed, the New Jersey Supreme Court tossed those aside. There were rules in California, and three judges ordered a halt to the recall that only went forward because the luck of an en banc draw brought sanity to the review panel.
No, the rules won't stop Kerry's recall. Only Teddy can, and the weight of the senior senator from Massachusetts shouldn't be underestimated. The Kerry campaign is his last hurrah, and the convention's in Boston, for goodness sake. What kind of a reception would follow a party that tossed Kerry onto the tracks?
Does Daschle care? Does Patty Murray? Barbara Boxer? Any of a half-dozen endangered Dem incumbents in the Senate and a score in the House? So the receiving committee is a littlie frosty and Teddy dumps them from the Christmas card list – they'll still have jobs.
And Dean – what's he thinking when he can get the voices to quiet down? He was robbed, you know ... by the same people now conspiring against Kerry. Dean doesn't forget, and there's not enough Ambien in America to get him a night's sleep. What if, with another yell, he decides to demand an open convention. "Let the delegates vote!" isn't a bad slogan. Bring back all the orange hats and the blog and all that. Quite a party could be had by all.
Bill Clinton just announced the publication date of his new memoir: Late June. How unfortunate for Kerry – Bill has to do a book tour for the month running up to the convention, sucking the air right out of an already spent balloon. Sorry, couldn't be avoided. Publisher deadlines and all.
So as Kerry melts away, there – on every television screen in the land – will be Saturday Night Bill, playing his sax, blowing his own horn, saying stuff. All sorts of stuff. Looking incredibly large, opposite the incredibly small Kerry.
Tick, tick, tick. The Torricelli Option. Coming to theaters near you this summer.
And ladies aren't all simpering fools.There's a time and place for being "polite";a political forum isn't one of them.
Yes,we do agree on who to vote for and if you pay attention to my posts,you just might learn a lot and become more politically astute.
Sorry about your cousin...but you still have more in common with him/her than I do;by marriage,or not.
I'd bet the manse ...
Ok ... I did a little homework. Methinks this is a play upon the commonly known phrase "I'd bet the farm".
Only, the manse is a tad bit more valuable than the farm, right? And, I'd like to know, which came first: the bet the farm, or the bet the manse phrase?
(Life must be pretty calm to be interested in this degree of mundane .... and this hoopla over Kerry, or whoever gets the democratic nod .... what silly noise. In my long ago Today post, I noted the Bush MTP interview, and especially the Katie Couric kid gloves reaction the following Monday morning was all I needed to see ... this election is stage play pure and simple, soup to nuts. This is only one single way Bush can lose Nov 4 ... he gets killed or he screws up badly between now and then.
When I lived in Texas for many years, I noticed something when he was Gov... He NEVER screws up. Go back and look at the woman execution flap and how he handled that ... that single event as much as any other shows just how smart Bush is. The dems have only one hope ... that Bush continues to be a work out nut, and faints again, and hits his head and really gets knocked out. I don't see that happening.)
And yes,unless the president does something utterly contemptable/really,really,REALLY messes up,he should win come Novemeber.
And as far as X42 goes,I understand him,as well as his spouse.Actually,I think that I understand her better,than him.There's nothing "hidden" about her;she's as easy for me to "read",as the daily paper.
But neither of them have the "power" that they once had and that's what some here forget/ignore.
I learn something from everyone;maybe it's YOU who need the lesson in civility,humility,and intellectual growth.
The Bush team needs to pull out the big guns not only in Iraq but also on the campaign trail.
I would suggest that he hire Ann Colter as as campaign spokesperson and run adds detailing how Kerry was unfairly awarded the Purple Hearts and Silver Star.
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