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| Steyn says, "Kerry's polished, but he can't make his case" |
| 2004-10-03 |
| ELF snip But none of that matters. If John Kerry is so polished and eloquent and forceful and mellifluous, how come nobody has a clue what his policy on Iraq is? As he made clear on Thursday, Saddam was a growing threat so he had to be disarmed so Kerry voted for war in order to authorize Bush to go to the U.N. but Bush failed to pass ''the global test'' so we shouldn't have disarmed Saddam because he wasn't a threat so the war was a mistake so Kerry will bring the troops home by persuading France and Germany to send their troops instead because he's so much better at building alliances so he'll have no trouble talking France and Germany into sending their boys to be the last men to die for Bush's mistake. Have I got that right? Oh, and he'll call a summit. ''I have a plan to have a summit. . . . I'm going to hold that summit ... we can be successful in Iraq with a summit . . . the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together ...'' Summit old, summit new, summit borrowed, summit blue, he's got summit for everyone. Summit-chanted evening, you may see a stranger, you may see a stranger across a crowded room. But, in John Kerry's world, there are no strangers, just EU deputy defense ministers who haven't yet contributed 10,000 troops because they haven't been invited to a summit. And once John Kerry holds that summit all our troubles are over. Summit time and the livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin' ... No, hang on, your wife is rich and your manicure's good-lookin' ... 'kinda get the feeling Mark isn't voting for Kerry.. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #17 Bush during the debate said Kerry has a pre 911 mentality. He should also have said he has a very very left appeasement mentality. He is dangerous to this country because of this goofiness. View the image on the net of Kerry playing the guitar (and imagine him singing Kumbayah). Kerry is stuck in the 60s--lost in the fog, incapable of defending this country. |
| Posted by: John 2004-10-03 3:20:15 PM |
| #16 Did Kerry support Clinton's DefSec, Wm Perry, in 1996 when he and his subordinate Harold Smith threatened Qaddafi with use of the B61-11 bunker-buster and thereby forced Q-man to halt his underground nuke program? Rove needs to get all over this one. Electing Kerry in the face of a soon-to-be nuclear Iran would be like electing freezenik Jonathan Schell during Andropov's day. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-03 3:12:22 PM |
| #15 Kerry won a skirmish but opened up a huge window of vulnerability in the process. Unbelievably, the man advocated unilateral disarmament and other foolish positions that show he hasn't learned a thing since his peacenik/nuclear freeze days. The man passionately believes we should give up our bunker-busters and at the same give nuclear fuel to Iran. Suicidal incoherence. Eighties-era leftist idiocy. Rove, Bush and Cheney need to be all over this, and fast. Kerry is far more dangerous to this country's security than anyone imagined. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-03 3:08:51 PM |
| #14 I saw the recent polls but I can't find anyone who changed their vote due to the debate last week. Yes JFK looked pretty up on stage but he said nothing of substance. After the debate noone in the Kerry camp could still pinpoint his position and his 'plan' for the future. Still Bush's race to loose and I think he will due a lot better at the town hall and watch the evasiveness of JFK. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-03 11:44:04 AM |
| #13 The clown analogy was to illustrate that above the din and spin of the left ( the clown ), voters (parents ) know a bad choice when they see it and will act accordingly. Voters may well keep undergoing this bandwagon effect, but ultimately, they will vote for the sane candidate. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-10-03 10:34:24 AM |
| #12 The clown analogy is maybe more accurate if one thinks about the clown John Wayne Gacy played at parties in Chicago area...as the body count went up. I have trouble accepting the funny and cute part of the image. #9 seems to me to be on target--maybe except for the clown imagery. Hey, THROW THE CLOWN WITH THE BONER OUT!!! |
| Posted by: John 2004-10-03 10:05:18 AM |
| #11 "Then one by one parents and adults begin to notice not only is this clown performing without any pants on, he also has a huge boner." Oh, no, not ANOTHER Bill Clinton! |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-03 9:40:59 AM |
| #10 Sometimes I think we are all preaching to the choir on Rantburg. I wonder how wide Rantburg's audience is? I don't think the MSM is about to change. I think they will continue to shill for left wing elitest Democrats. First Amendment guarantees the right to be a shill. I do have great concern over a President Kerry. I agree with the above remarks that the world will become a more dangerous place under Kerry. I do agree with #4 about the consistency of Kerry's record that is truly scary. The polls are about even if you can believe them. Unfortunately, the polls have become very biased I believe. Polls are used to try to get a "bandwagon effect" going for a candidate. One has to look at who is conducting the poll just as who is writing the news piece. The only real poll that matters is the one on November 2 and what the outcome is on November 3. |
| Posted by: John 2004-10-03 9:40:23 AM |
| #9 Much as I hate to break up this commiseration-fest, alls ya'll gotta do is show up at the polls Nov. 2nd. Bush didn't have to do all that well in this first debate, and so he didn't, but his poll numbers on national security are still strong. Kerry may have scored some points with this 'punditi' who wank off in front of clips of J. Fn. Kerry speaking, but that doesn't make him a viable candidate. Our media people won't make note of this because they, like Kerry, would sell their very souls to the devil for another leftist presidency. Ultimately Kerry came off as a petty, sniping, waffling, leftist internationalist, who would have NO PROBLEM in selling our security down the river for a second term, if he gets in; a patrician's patrician. Paraphrasing Dean Wormer: French and haughty is no way to go through life, son." Ultimately Kerry cannot run away from this performance in this first debate. And I am certain Messrs Gillespie and Rove will remind voter of Kerry's personal vacuousness To me, Kerry is like a clown at a kid's party. Funny and cute, ya gotta love the guy and his antics; the kids are laughing, and its a great time. Then one by one parents and adults begin to notice not only is this clown performing without any pants on, he also has a |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-10-03 9:36:49 AM |
| #8 If the MSM would only do 1/2 of what we expect it to do, report the truth - rather than shill for Kerry - this election would have been over a long time ago. But expect them to get more shrill and dish out more outrageous lies to fool the masses in the coming 30 days. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-03 8:56:40 AM |
| #7 Yup. There's that, plus a few other things: Kerry to Hu Flung Dung (or whoever the hell's in charge of Red China these days): go ahead and attack Taiwan, we're too timid to stop you. Kerry to Kim Jong Il and his NorK Orcs: go ahead and nuke Seoul (and Tokyo, too, if you have the urge): we're too timid to stop you. Kerry to Musharraff: your hand are too dirty, and our hands are too dainty, for you to be our allies anymore. We don't want your help. Kerry to Israel: stop mistreating those Palestinians! They only do the suicide boomer thingie because you're so MEAN to them, so Mr. Sharon, tear down that wall! Kerry to the Mad Mullahs: we're sorry that terrible man called you part of the Axis of Evil; here, will you forgive us if we give you some enriched uranium? And finally (and I think this one scares me more than any of the others), Kerry to U.S. Troops: F*ck you, you baby-killers. If Kerry wins, we're going to be confronted by a world which is suddenly a **LOT** more dangerous than it is now. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-03 8:45:17 AM |
| #6 Bush's performance in the debate seems to have freaked a lot of people out, and polls suggest Kerry could actually win Yes, that's how I pick my presidents in these dangerous times. I pick them based on their performance in one debate. Bush was hunched over and bit his lip several times. Most freaky of all was that, several times, he paused too long before answering. I mean OMG!! What does that say!!! It's been difficult for me this year, though. With the polls changing so often, I've had to keep changing my mind. Since Kerry is up now...I wonder...is there something wrong with me that I too don't support Kerry? I must wait to see what the future polls say before I decide what I think. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-03 8:41:13 AM |
| #5 Dave D. -- Exactly. "President" Kerry to the rest of the world, "Now that I'm President, what would you like me to do to make your lives easier? I'll do anything you say so we can all get along, because America's been so bad and mean." |
| Posted by: nada 2004-10-03 8:30:33 AM |
| #4 "I cannot conceive of Kerry getting elected." Unfortunately, I can: Bush's performance in the debate seems to have freaked a lot of people out, and polls suggest Kerry could actually win. But I think in the sense you meant it, no, I can't conceive of him being president, either; the thought is too horrible. "He will drive us all crazy trying to figure out what his positions are. There is no divining rod, score card, roadmap, etc. that will help." I dunno about that. If you look at his post-Vietnam politicking and his 20 years in the Senate, a pretty clear picture emerges: he's an extreme liberal peacenik, molded in the anti-Vietnam War protests, the Nuclear Freeze Movement of the 80's, and the pro-Sandinista Marxist faction of the Democratic Senate of the 80's. He voted against kicking Saddam out of Kuwait in 1991. He's voted against many, perhaps most, of the weapons systems that are vital to the success of our military and the survivability of our troops. He's a blame-America-firster: the reason France and Germany wouldn't ally with us against Saddam isn't that their leaders are cynical and corrupt, he says, it's that we were arrogant towards them and weren't nice enough. We don't play well with others, and he'll fix that by building REAL coalitions. Right. What would Kerry do as President? It's clear enough to me: he would be true to form, and faithful to all the instincts he has displayed over the years. And that means he would be another Jimmy Carter, but even more spineless-- yes, such an abomination is actually possible. Foreign leaders are watching this election as closely as they've watched any U.S. election in the last half-century. No doubt they, too have been formulating their own predictions of what a Kerry presidency would be like, and those predictions are probably very much along the lines of what I wrote above. And they will act on those predictions. Count on it. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-03 8:22:33 AM |
| #3 I really view Kerry's running as simply another one of his personal goals and hopeful accomplishments. It doesn't seem like he cares about being President, he just wants the title. Quite a resume: Yale, Navy Officer, Vietnam Hero/Anti-Hero, Activist, Lawyer, Senator, Husband to a couple of rich women, and now possibly President. What more could he be except Commander of Star Fleet? I can just see him getting elected, and letting his minions run amok because he just doesn't care what happens after he inherits the title. That's what scares me. |
| Posted by: nada 2004-10-03 7:55:20 AM |
| #2 ...and by the way did I tell you about my heroic deeds and service in Vietnam. I am also Arabic, Jewish, French, Christian and whatever else you got that votes. I cannot conceive of Kerry getting elected. He will drive us all crazy trying to figure out what his positions are. There is no divining rod, score card, roadmap, etc. that will help. THERE IS NO KERRY PLAN, Let's just not elect him. That seems simple. Look folks, there is just nothing there to like about the guy-there is no substance-no beliefs-no positions-no nothing! The mideast situation is far to serious to wait for Kerry to figure it out and take a position. The stakes are very high. |
| Posted by: John 2004-10-03 7:14:38 AM |
| #1 Gotta enjoy that humorous assault. Steyn is our weapon of Kerry destruction |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-10-03 2:22:58 AM |