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| Steyn: Kerry's showing he just can't take the heat |
| 2004-09-04 |
| Another gem from Steyn- best line on WOT: "If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running." Both candidates gave speeches late on Thursday night. George W. Bush was more or less expected to. John Kerry didn't have to, but reported for duty even though nobody wanted him to. Unnerved by sagging numbers, he decided to start the post-Labor Day phase of the campaign three days before Labor Day. The way things are going, Democrats seem likely to be launching the post-election catastrophic-defeat vicious-recriminations phase of the campaign round about Sept. 12. At any rate, less than 60 minutes after President Bush gave a sober, graceful, droll and moving address, Kerry decided to hit back. In the midnight hour, he climbed out of his political coffin, and before his thousands of aides could grab the garlic from Teresa's kitchen and start waving it at him, he found himself in front of an audience and started giving a speech. As in Vietnam, he was in no mood to take prisoners: ''I have five words for Americans,'' he thundered. ''This is your wake up call!'' Is that five words? Or is it six? Well, it's all very nuanced, according to whether you hyphenate the ''wake-up.'' Maybe he should have said, ''I have four words plus a common hyphenated expression for Americans.'' I'd suggest the rewrite to him personally, but I don't want him to stare huffily at me and drone, "How dare you attack my patriotism." |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 I was cruising the Euro Press and they are really perprlexed that Kerry isn't running away witht eh election. It's as if they almost want to vote for us (prob for our own good). I saw the same thing inthe Euro press during the 1984 election. They could believe that we wanted another four years of Reagan. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-04 6:41:24 PM |
| #5 We can take 4 years of whining by Kerry. We cannot take 4 years of Kerry. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-04 5:23:41 PM |
| #4 One line out of this piece struck me: " If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do." That pretty much describes the Democrats in their entirety; it's all about who THEY perceive to be the victim, and nothing else. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-04 5:21:50 PM |
| #3 We have two months of whining left until the whining over the 'stolen' elections begin. And then four years of whining about: "If only...." If these two can't take a criticism of their Senatorial records, how would they act when they are criticized by an ally or an enemy? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-09-04 4:28:21 PM |
| #2 C-Span is replaying the key speeches from the convention today -- Giuliani was just on. It's like watching the NBA slam dunk contest. Kerry's Thursday night speech was really worrying in the sense that I'd like to see John Fng Kerry buy himself a psychiatrist or two before this goes much further. Does he think that the criticism is going to abate if he's elected? |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-09-04 11:38:39 AM |
| #1 "Doctor Nuance" John Kerry is changing his name. . . {but he still can't count} |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-04 11:31:25 AM |