Mark Steyn: I still think Bush will win

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 07/17/04 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[BlueLancer]

"He’s happy on his little hamster wheel, going round and round and getting nowhere, occasionally pausing to chew his nuts."

I don't know why ... well, yes, I do (it's because I've got a dirty mind) ... but this is the funniest line in the whole article. I can just visualize John F'ing Kerry on this giant hamster wheel, running for all he's worth, and then stopping to chew on his ****

[TexasNative2000]

This one immediately goes to the top of the Steyn list - very well said on all counts.

[Always Right]

The media, said Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek, in a unusual moment of candour the other day, ‘wants Kerry to win’ and so ‘they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic ...

And the New York Times is worried about bias at Fox. Nothing Fox is accused of doing even comes close to that bias. Newsweek is boldly admitting their magazine is just propaganda for Kerry.

[rushmom]

Larry Sabito was on Fox this morning. Very depressing. He thinks Bush has to lose Cheney for another VP. He says for Bush this election is tied at best. Now I have some questions about this. Isn't Kerry supposed to be receiving his Edwards bounce now? Tied at best? On the other hand, we hear this story about the indifferent black voter base every election, and every election they vote in huge numbers for Democrats. Sabito also says Bush is losing in Pennsylvania and Florida right now...and that the electoral map looks just like four years ago, except that Bush has to get Florida back, and has a chance at Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this time. Anybody have any substantively good news out there? Has this country moved very far to the left? It's so scary.

[maica]

Fabulous: Should be read into the record at the Republican Convention.

But the other reason I’d bet on Bush is more basic: he tends not to lose.

This is what the kool-aid drinkers refuse to see.

[texasflower]

I don't normally consider myself to have a dirty mind, but that line cracked me up too.

[EmilyGeiger]

Botoxicated Brahmin Bloviator from Massachusetts. LOL, I think I'll be using that one with my democratic friends!

[sinkspur]

But to say that you believe in voting against what you believe because you don’t believe in believing in your beliefs is as close as you can get to admitting that the flip-flop perception is true: you stand for nothing; there’s no there there.

Another Steyn classic.

This guy needs to get out more. He's fantastic.

[malakhi]

The 2000 census brought about, yet again, a further draining of electoral muscle from the Democrat north-east to the Republican south and west. This means that even if Bush won only the states he won last time round, instead of a squeaker, he'd beat Kerry by 278 electoral college votes to 260.

An excellent observation. I haven't seen this pointed out anywhere else.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't think it is possible to split Maine's electoral votes evenly--either they will split 3-1 or 4-0, depending on who gets more votes in each Congressional district. It isn't possible to lose in both districts and still have a statewide popular plurality, unless they have some really fuzzy math involved.

[dennisw]

The only thing Thomas got wrong was that 15-point bounce. There was no discernible Edwards bounce outside his hair.

That wasn't a bounce. That was a flounce of the Breck girl's hair.

[rhombus]

...it’s about American resolve in dangerous times, Kerry and Edwards look way out of their league.

Bingo. This is the main issue of the election. Kerry/Edwards call American resolve arrogance and they minimize dangerous times simply because they have no new ideas. Like Clinton's foreign policy team, Kerry/Edwards will focus on sending little boys back to Cuba and empty treaty cerimonies as an opiate for the simple minded.

[91B]

But to say that you believe in voting against what you believe because you don’t believe in believing in your beliefs is as close as you can get to admitting that the flip-flop perception is true: you stand for nothing; there’s no there there.

I almost pity the Dems-not having a Mark Steyn.

Almost.

[Cultural Jihad]

A few months ago the Democrats were jeering about ‘the Bush recession’. Then the recession ended. So they started jeering about ‘the jobless recovery’. Then the jobs kicked in. So now they’re moaning that the jobs ‘don’t pay enough’. Get the feeling this whole economy thing just isn’t going anywhere for them?

A DNC water-carrier ping!

[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

I don't know why ... well, yes, I do (it's because I've got a dirty mind) ... but this is the funniest line in the whole article.

I got to that line and had to scroll down to see if anybody had highlighted it yet.

[bad company]

"Like a caged hamster,"

Can't stop laughing.

[new cruelty]

Pure gold...

"This is a first: a candidate who boasts that his conscience is at odds with his voting record. If you believe that abortion is the taking of a life, you vote against it. If you lose the vote, then you say, well, I personally believe life begins at conception, but I respect the will of the legislature, blah blah. But to say that you believe in voting against what you believe because you don’t believe in believing in your beliefs is as close as you can get to admitting that the flip-flop perception is true: you stand for nothing; there’s no there there."

[Sloth]

He’s happy on his little hamster wheel, going round and round and getting nowhere, occasionally pausing to chew his nuts.

I thought that was Teresa's job.

he doesn’t believe he has the right to inflict his deeply held personal beliefs on Jacques Chirac, or Gerhard Schröder, or whoever the Belgian guy is.

LOL. Take that, Belgium!