Posted on 09/03/2004 5:08:34 AM PDT by SJackson
UNTIL President Bush began his speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention, the goal of the United States' anti-terror policy was perceived by a largely supportive public as a bid to assure safety. With a rhetorical flourish worthy of the great speeches of all time, George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty.
In a speech that was at once eloquent and substantive, sensitive and dynamic, profound and familiar, Bush has risen to a level few presidents have ever reached.
Sometimes a strategist just has to sit back and gasp. Occasionally, a seasoned political observer needs to realize that he has seen something extraordinary. Tonight, Bush made me feel like that.
The speech satisfied every single political need. He contrasted with Kerry without appearing negative. He demonstrated emotion without pandering. He rose to a level of substantive specificity without becoming wonkish.
The Bush speech was akin to a State of the Union speech, surveying the landscape of American issues and articulating a proactive agenda for the next four years. But, like his stirring address to Congress in the aftermath of 9/11, he issued a ringing declaration for freedom, injecting the historic concept of freedom into the center stage in the 2004 election.
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Now I'm worried.
I just hope that there are millions more Democrats that have the same feelings Dick Morris does.
He laid on us (the US) the mantle of a sacred and holy mission, our reason for existence. That's pretty big stuff, and 'substantive' just brushes the surface of what 'W' implied. For what it's worth, I think he's right. (Gen. 12 - "I will bless you so that through you all nations will be blessed.")
Morris is not always wrong. I was bored at the beginning of Bush's speech -- it wasn't what I had been expecting. But that speech transformed itself as he went, and that man covered everything. It went a little longer than some expected, but it had to. I am amazed at what President Bush was able to accomplish in one speech.
You mean there was a time when it wasn't?? < /rhetorical >
Bump for President Bush!
Holy Moley. Dick Morris is for Bush. I hope none of his "magic" rubs off...
Holy Moley. Dick Morris is for Bush. I hope none of his "magic" rubs off...
Thank you Dick, this was your finest editorial.
Its hard to know what to think of Morris. I lost a lot of respect for his political acumen when he said that the GOP must nominate Colin Powell or Rice in 2008 or 2012 in order to broaden the appeal of the party because the GOP had 'run out of white people.'
How someone whose job is to know and study polls and election results can say that the GOP has run out of white people when W Bush got 54% of the white vote last time, versus 59% for his father in 1988, and 64% for Reagan in 1984 is beyond me.
Of course the GOP should strive to do better with non-whites, but they should also be active in trying to do better with their base.
One of his big problems is that Morris has an opinion on everything. As such, he is both right and wrong about more things than most pundits.
A very good observation...and what's more, it's what is being done by our troops.
"Liberators" not occupiers.
Thanks Zell for leading us to higher ground! Now we must secure the future.
Advancing the banner of liberty.
I agree -- it is an honor.
This is Morris' best article. Fortunately, he doesn't predict anything in it. His predictions are normally exactly 180 degrees wrong.
Last night President Bush not only reassured me he is the right man, for the right job, at the right time; he inspired me that he is indeed.
Besides the fact that we and the rest of the free world can't afford to have Kerry at the helm, Bush is indeed ---
The War on Terror was always a battle for extending liberty. These are the two sides on a seesaw combat that has gone back and forth since mankind first developed a sufficient amount of social interaction to form tribal societies. Some tribes are ruled by all the members being cowed into submission by a ruling clique, and other tribes have an all-encompassing rule by a direct democracy, in which all aspects of contention are discussed by the concerned parties.
Somewhere deep inside Dick Morris lie principle. It takes a great leader like Bush to give people the courage to express and live by those principles.
I think Bush reached well inside everyone that listened last night and stirred their souls.
"I just spoke to two friends in FL. Both Dem. These dem are voting W."
Does anybody know who Peggy Noonan is working for this year - because I definitely caught a whiff of Noonan in the tail end of that speech. "Buildings fell, and a nation rose..." etc. Anybody else share this assessment?
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