Posted on 09/18/2004 9:14:24 PM PDT by Cableguy
It's hard to remember a presidential campaign without a repetitive stump speech that reporters could chant line by line. Ronald Reagan asked, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Bill Clinton, the Comeback Kid, felt your pain, every day, in every way. Al Gore preferred a rant about "the people versus the powerful." And George W. Bush will always have his "compassionate conservatism," not to mention his current daily promises to fight an unrelenting war on terrorism.
Then along comes the John Kerry campaign. After beating us about the brow with his commander-in-chief credentials at the Democratic convention, what are the other reasons he gives to would-be Kerryites to report for duty? Let's see: One day it's something about the evils of George W. Bush's allowing the ban on assault weapons to expire. The next day it's about the president's damaging huge deficits. Or blaming Bush for the rise in Medicare premiums. Or about Kerry's vision of healthcare for all. "It's like the campaign wakes up every morning and says, 'Gee, what's on the front page?' " sighs a pro-Kerry Democratic strategist.
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I saw the TV ad today and couldn't believe it. I thought the wind was still in my ears... Kerry's insane, he supports universal HC if he can get away with it and much more of a cost increase than the prescription drug program ended up. He's appealing to the brain dead.
Poor Gloria! Finally doing a Rassman off the sinking Kerry ship.
Next is Don Imus. What a splash.
You're right in every respect except such a message is indeed forthcoming, it is that Iraq is Vietnam, a quagmire.
If it is Vietnam, it needs a Vietnam solution. Who better to deliver that solution than the man who offered it to the country 30 years ago?
Presto, you have the man and the message as one.
This is what's coming.
"The mainstream press has taken to telegraphing the Kerry strategy to the Kerry campaign."
Indeed, they're crawling all over themselves with advise for Flipper.
This is from Gloria Borger? Wow. She is a shrill Democrat partisan, so this is momentous.
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