The comeback Kerry

Economist, UK ^ | September 23, 2004

[EGPWS]

John Kerry is no Ronald Reagan

OK, now can we get serious and not disrespect the public AND the memory of Ronald Reagan with stating such an obvious reality?

Somehow I can't fathom the idea of Ronald Reagan stating...oh, say...."I was against tearing down that wall, before I was for it Mr. Gorbachev!"

It just doesn't have a comforting ring to it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Meanwhile, Bush is, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."

[Mike Fieschko]

Every single one of these candidates have been Republicans!!

Uhh . . . there was Harry Truman . . .

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Somehow I can't fathom the idea of Ronald Reagan stating...oh, say...."I was against tearing down that wall, before I was for it Mr. Gorbachev!"

That's just too perfect.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

European economic advisors are as comical as French soldiers.

LOL

[cake_crumb]

"It is understandable since we are the richest country with low unemployment. We're the most talented, the most generous, the most God-fearing, the most valient people and that makes us the most successful country in the world. They can't take their eyes off of us."

That's the point. If they took their eyes off of US and paid attention to their own problems, their countries might enjoy more prosperity with lower unemployment too. But NOOOOO. Buncha lazy bums.

[johnb838]

Kerry has tacked hard left this week,

As strains of "The Blue Danube" echoe through our heads.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If they took their eyes off of US and paid attention to their own problems, their countries might enjoy more prosperity with lower unemployment too. But NOOOOO. Buncha lazy bums.

BUMP!

[reagan_fanatic]

I just love all of these articles giving advice to Kerry on how to beat Bush.

You can almost hear the pleading and the gnashing of teeth by all the panicked liberals who simply cannot believe that a far-left liberal intellectual like Kerry can be beat by someone like Bush.

Life is soooo sweet!!!

[The_Reader_David]

Actually The Economist offers everyone advice. It's one of the peculiar features of the magazine: in the same issue they'll give advice on how a Republican President in the U.S., a Communist Party General Secretary in China, a newly-elected unknown leader in a new democracy, and candidates for office in three radically different countries with three different ideologies can do things 'better' either for their country or for their own political position.

It's just the way The Economist is. All in all, though, their editorial line tends to run somewhere between moderate Tory and Tony "We-are-all-Thatcherites-now" Blair's version of the British left, so they're fairly worth reading despite the tendency to give unsolicited advice.

[workerbee]

Re the photo -- Bill & Hill come across as almost genuinely affectionate when compared to the Heinz-Kerrys. I swear these two are the biggest couple of phoney baloney "love birds" I've ever seen.

[ground_fog]

Kerry being compared to Reagan either makes me laugh hysterically or vomit.

[mdmathis6]

"And I am Elizabeth Taylor"


We always suspected that about you...Howlin'!(LOL)

[sandalwood]

John Kerry is no Ronald Reagan

Yeah, and George Bush is no Jimmy Carter.

[sr4402]

'Why not come back to the anti-war position. After all, it was my position with Jane Fonda so I'll shed my hero image and go anti-war again. It's fun'

/sarcasm off

[sr4402]

'Let me out of John's clutches! Haven't you noticed that I squint everytime he tries to kiss me! Ugh!

/sarcasm off

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Phony, plastic, pathetic people.

[jim35]

Whoops! You're right.

[SteamShovel]

That was my favorite book growing up
(Can you tell?)