Bush's real advantage is Kerry

Chicago Sun-Times ^

[Gucho]

September 6, 2004

BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement

NEW YORK -- The soaring confidence that George W. Bush's political team takes into the final weeks of the campaign stems from more than belief its candidate is vastly underestimated. President Bush's advisers cannot believe their good fortune of how badly John Kerry and his campaign have performed the last month. What's more, that assessment is shared by many Democrats outside the Kerry campaign.

The Republican National Convention here did everything intended, climaxed by Bush's competent though overly long acceptance speech. But Bush's real advantage has been Kerry. At the Labor Day traditional campaign start, the Democratic nominee still seems undefined. In his latest about-face, he has gone into an attack mode, however blunted.

[Merry]

I think Robert Novak is wonderful!!! He is willing to stand up for W even though his home paper, The Chicago Sun Times, is in Democratland and he takes a lot of criticism.

[Publius]

His late-night audience seemed anesthetized.

And he seemed drunk.

[TheGeezer]

Kerry aides then blamed their nominee's troubles on public criticism by Carville, a television personality who holds no party position.

Evil Incarnate James Carville is now part of Kerry's campaign.

[Semper Paratus]

And he seemed drunk.

"Do you know what I am? HIC!"

[The Seeker of Knowlege]

Thank Goodness we have Kerry and his campaign team! He is doing us proud! (chuckle)

[Flux Capacitor]

----But when the usually amiable Georgian was told by friendly critics that he could have smiled a little more, he replied that he regarded the menace to his family posed by today's Democratic Party as no laughing matter.----

I'm not old enough to remember a time when the Democratic Party was a sane electoral alternative (if indeed it ever was). But if Zell Miller is an example of what Democrats used to be like, all those years ago.... well, then I can better understand why they dominated for much of the 20th Century. And I can completely appreciate Zell's anger at what the America-hating Left, that has taken control of the party he worked all his life to help build up, has done to it. It would be as if the GOP were suddenly re-Rockefellerized (though even that analogy is inadequate).

-Dan

[shield]

Evil Incarnate James Carville is now part of Kerry's campaign.

I wouldn't worry about that turd...clintoon made him look good. Someone posted the fact is ONE big difference....he doesn't have clintoon. All he's got is kerry!!! Maybe for once people will really get to see the skinhead-in-chief Carville and what's he really made of...folks he just ain't that good!

kerry is toast and burnt at that!!!

[comebacknewt]

I'm not sure how active Car-vile is going to be in the campaign anyway. He is a guy who insists on complete control, and Cahill and Devine are not going to let go of it willingly.

The fact that serpent-head is not willing to give up his day job speaks volumes to me.

[bray]

The only Dems I was worried about was Liberman and Gephart since they are Moderate.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Blue Highway]

Interesting side note about Robert Novak's son:

In response to queries: My son, Alex Novak, is director of marketing for Regnery Publishing Inc., publisher of Unfit for Command. He is 36 and has been employed at Regnery for six years, since receiving his MBA from the University of Maryland. He has had no connection with my reporting about Unfit for Command, a best-selling book dealing with Kerry's war record whose news value is obvious. I plan to continue to pursue this story as developments warrant.

[billorites]

"***

In response to queries: My son, Alex Novak, is director of marketing for Regnery Publishing Inc., publisher of Unfit for Command. He is 36 and has been employed at Regnery for six years, since receiving his MBA from the University of Maryland. He has had no connection with my reporting about Unfit for Command, a best-selling book dealing with Kerry's war record whose news value is obvious. I plan to continue to pursue this story as developments warrant. "

So, bite me if you don't like it I guess.

Good for Novak.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Did any see that whirling dervish screaming, cavorting and being urged by Kerry on the stage in WV today? He made Miller look like a peace ambassador to the Vatican.

[thulldud]

Look out, the Kool-Aid is spiked!

[Ciexyz]

Good read.

[Paul Atreides]

"Do you know what I am? HIC!"

Which is a variation on his usual, "Do you know who I am, hick?".

[uncbob]

I wouldn't worry about that turd...clintoon made him look good. Someone posted the fact is ONE big difference....he doesn't have clintoon.

Wrong
Perot made him look good
Clinton got 43% in 92 same as Carter Mondale Ducakis in their defeats
Lost the congress for the dems in 94 and couldn't get 50% in 96 running against a lackluster Dole with a booming economy and market, peacetime , a fawning MSM and the incumbency

Biggest political myth is that Clinton is a great politician

[bayourod]

Don't forget an increasingly forgiving press.

[luvbach1]

Evil Incarnate James Carville is now part of Kerry's campaign.

Isn't anyone going to ask how Mary M. can stand him? Or is that a dead horse?

[elhombrelibre]

As I said before: The thing is, and the press is ignoring it, Kerry cannot even run a good campaign, yet we are supposed to believe he could be president at a time when we're at war with terrorism all over the globe. He fights with all his fellow vets, yet we are supposed to believe he could run diplomacy for the nation. He's been acting like a spoiled and entitled child ever since the swiftvets called him on his Vietnam War stories, yet we are to believe he could handle the pressures of being president. The man is desperate and ridiculous wishing to be president, but he cannot even be a decent person when he deals with secret service agents and other people too plain for the GREAT man.