Posted on 06/16/2004 2:23:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Bad news for John Kerry
Posted: June 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Hugh Hewitt
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
John Kerry built his presidential bid on the idea that Iraq was a quagmire leading to a Vietnam-like foreign-policy disaster and that the U.S. economy was mired in a jobless recession.
With rapid progress toward democracy unfolding in Iraq and increasing despair among the terrorists, if this New York Post story on an alleged Zarqawi posting on an extremist website is to be believed Kerry's Iraq doom-and-gloom preaching sounds increasingly like a core value of defeatism, which has never resonated with the American electorate.
Add into the mix that a crisis with Iran looms notably mullah-stonewalling on their nukes, and a UPI report on Iranian troop movements to the border with Iraq and the electorate is looking at a choice between resolve and retreat. Bad news for Kerry.
But not as bad as the news he gets daily on the economy. Resolute only in his refusal to deal with the facts of an economic boom underway, Kerry is banking on the American people believing what they hear from him as opposed to what they read in the newspapers, see on the television and hear from the Bush campaign. The Washington Post explains that Kerry is committed to badmouthing the boom, but the account admits that:
... a recent spate of positive economic news threatens to complicate, if not contradict, Kerry's impending attack. The economy is growing at its fastest clip in 20 years, 1.4 million jobs have been created in the past nine months, including nearly 250,000 in May alone, and wages are starting to climb for many workers.
Kerry stubbornly clings to his dark visions through thorn-covered glasses, telling New Jersey audiences Monday that times were terrible, but even the Los Angeles Times was forced to admit in its headlines that Kerry's rhetoric is failing the laugh test: "Kerry Sidesteps Job Growth as He Hits Bush on Economy." Here are two precious paragraphs of the article:
"I've met steelworkers and mineworkers and autoworkers who are now ex-workers, and every single one of them know that their job has been unbolted before their eyes, shipped overseas," the Massachusetts senator said at the airport rally.
He struck a similar note in his speech to more than 300 donors milling around the pool and whirlpool at Bon Jovi's castle-like New Jersey estate, but acknowledged the dissonance of the scene and the message.
Hollywood producers and rock stars funding the stiff preppie from Yale to talk down to American workers about the boom they are creating and will sustain yeah, that'll work.
Perhaps' Kerry's brain trust ought to read a recent report from CNN's Money magazine on projected job growth in the third quarter: "Hot summer for job seekers: Survey finds 3Q hiring plans to keep pace with those of second quarter; outlook is best in the West."
Kerry's campaign says America is headed in the wrong direction? Job growth is even up in California, where the Sacramento Democrats have been tied down by Arnold who has led a reversal of many of the job-killing policies from the years when Gray Davis teamed with an overwhelming Democratic majority in the Legislature created a perfect storm for destroying employment.
In short, tax cuts and regulatory reform produce economic growth, and the evidence of that is overwhelming even media elites rooting for Kerry. No wonder Kerry has been acting weird it isn't even July, and his campaign platform has been destroyed by events.
Which is a little like how Paul Krugman must have felt yesterday morning. Part of the New York Times' commitment to full employment for eccentrics, Krugman's column is read rarely, and then primarily in the fever swamps of the left. But yesterday's offering was unique in its bad timing.
"Travesty of Justice" begins with this line: "No question: John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in history." Coming hours after Ashcroft announced the indictment of a Somali terrorist plotting to blow up a Columbus shopping mall, Krugman's rant will impress readers generally and certainly the voters in swing-state Ohio only for its persuasiveness as to Krugman's frothiness. (Has anyone ever seen Robert Scheer and Krugman together in the same room?)
As Krugman curses deadlines, voters should ask why the Senate Democrats are dragging their feet in renewing the Patriot Act, why Kerry opposes that renewal, and whether they'd like to have Janet Reno back at Justice chasing the terrorists in our land.
It will be a long five months for Kerry's gang, but amusing for the rest of us if the stakes were not so serious.
Americans will vote for a pessimist? John F*ckin risks look more and more like Canada's beleagured Paul Martin.
John who? ;-)
>>Kerry stubbornly clings to his dark visions through thorn-covered glasses.
And nobody can find proof of his attacks...must be astrological predictions.
"Eccentrics" must be the New Yawk colloquialism for what we call "lunatics".
What I can't understand is how so many people still think the economy is rotten. Poll after poll shows that. Now I generally take all polls with a grain of salt, but I'm begining to worry that the MSM has been successful in planting that meme in enough people. And the Bush 2004 team has done a terrible job in getting their message out so far.
Depends on how the question is phrased -- or in what context. Notice how consumer confidence surveys -- which are done professionally, sans political bias -- show pretty bullish sentiment. Yet media 'horse race' polls shows the opposite. Both can't be right. Odds are the media polls are really push-polls whose questions are fashioned in such a way as to yield results that fit the media's 'Bad-economy' template. If people thought the economy was as rotten as the media polls say they do, the economy would screeched to a halt.
i agree with your post.
we are having a heck of a time finding companys in st. louis that we can outsource too, to help us keep up with our customer backlog. also i cant find enough people to staff a third shift let alone enough qualified people to staff my first and second shifts. that 5.6% unemployment is basically full employment. those 5.6% are mostly people who only want to work 2 or 3 days a week for beer and cigarete mony or or ex high paid unionists who refuse to work for anything less than their last overpaid job.
THing is you need to take them with more than a GRAIN of salt. Polls don't just spin, they lie. The Blowout of '02 convinced me of that. They showed the rats even or even ahead in most of the senate races and they got their butts handed to them.
I think these polls are just to give sKerry talking points. As Hewitt so pithily put it, they don't pass the Laugh Test.
Anything less than about 5% unemployment gets to the point where all the good people are getting promoted and the 1st line customer service people are the dumbest, rudest, least helpful apples in the barrel. That's the only downside of full employment.
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sanitizing evil
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL
A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists
JOHN KERRY'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content
"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?
The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance
What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?
MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)
The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)
UDAY: "The end is near
this time I think the
Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
Those would be the people who are too lazy to find out themsleves. They want to be TOLD how to feel & what to think by Dan Rather & others of his ilk, IMHO.
Kerry not wanting to give up his senate seat is enough to convice me that he is convinced he isn't winning in November.
I think the RATS decided that this is a throw away election and will not risk Hillarys 100 mil and a senate seat. Kerry loses and goes right back to the senate. With Edwards not running for reelection, this would now seem to be the logical choice for VP.
hit the nail on the head you did.
interfaceing with the public seems to be a lost art
but then again those are some of the values we are losing to the P.C. jerks and their prophet, the aclu.
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