Posted on 09/03/2004 5:08:34 AM PDT by SJackson
Me, too. I always enjoy reading what the Vampire writes...it's always full of intrigue and melodrama. But he's wrong most of the time.
Fortunately, for our side, Kerry has decided to push the idea that since he put on the uniform and spent time in Vietnam, that he's more qualified for the Presidency than the two men who 'decided not to serve'. HELLO? I don't know what he thinks flying F-102s is; chopped liver, maybe? As far as Dick Cheney is concerned, I think being married and having kids at the time, he wasn't considered suitable as he wasn't already in the military. Doesn't make him a slacker, that's just the way it was for many men at the time.
By concentrating on Vietnam, Kerry is avoiding his Senate service, and leaves that road open for the President and Vice-President to remind folks of Kerry's record in the Senate. It is my opinion that Kerry has jumped the shark with his continuing to talk about his Vietnam service, and even the Swifties have moved on from that! Fine by me, it will just make the President's victory margin that much larger! ;o)
Just sit down and shut up till the election.
Yeah, I wondered if Peggy had a hand in that speech. It was Dubya's style, but some of the phrases that just sounded so 'Peggy'. When she wrote the column at WSJ that said she was going to work with the Republicans, she said that she'd be working for folks most people hadn't heard of, but I'm not so sure.
That they chose to follow so immediately the RNC convention gave anyone watching the chance to contrast and compare.
The other team is not even fit for the office of tax collector.
Wonderful line. Good leaders inspire goodness in people. Morris has in recent years redeemed himself IMHO and the fact he lets goodness effect him, then uses the power of his pen and prose to let people know, speaks well of Mr. Morris. I don't agree with some who call him a "wh*re"
Nope, I believe that one was Mark Helprin's work; I think that's the guy's name. I believe he was also one who wrote the President's speech after 9/11 in the National Cathedral.
That is a wonderful phrase that deserved the prime time lime light in enjoyed in the President's wonderful speech.
I turned to the Confused News Network after the speech just to hear what the most Evil and Dense thought of it. Maureen Dowd was confessing miserably that she believed the convention was almost perfect. Her sadness in admitting that was palpable. Hehehe.
MSNBC was even more positive and Maureen Dowd on CNN was declaring the whole convention almost perfect.
His most recent column pointed out the advantage Bush has in the his supporters tend to all be on one side of an issue, whereas Kerry has supporters on either side of a given issue.
And that means that no matter what Kerry says on any given issue, it's going to tick off a good portion of his supporters.
They do, real men are already voting for Bush.
"Uh, Dick. It's time to put the stake through Kerry's heart. Thanks - Hillary and Bill"
Of course, some of us knew this all along.
The line Dubya has drawn in the sand leaves about half of the Democratic party standing on the wrong side. They are total cynics about the concept of freedom, they see capitalism as a pathology, and they see imperialism everywhere...they are not in for a fun ride.
I saw Dubya's speech as a rallying call to centrist Reagan-style Dems to join him under the mantle of Reagan and move forward, to join him on the American/pro-freedom side of the line. Those who recoil instinctively or choose to remain on the wrong side should prepare to be isolated politically and left behind in history. The Dem standards of multiculturalism, socialism, human rights, and pacifism are largely irrelevant or shown to be empty in the current climate.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the Chicoms meet today.
If Hillary runs, he's going to be our best friend .
sw
[...because I definitely caught a whiff of Noonan in the tail end
Karen Hughes.]
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You mean the Karen Hughes who (I've read) wrote the twins' script? :o(
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