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September 03, 2004
John Kerry - Dead candidate walking John Kerry looks like a dead man walking through what was once a campaign. Looking at him during his midnight rally in Ohio, you could see that he's been beat. He knows it himself. THIS tends to confirm it.
For starters, the Swfit Boat Vets have seriously hurt his credibility. On top of which, the Republicans looked (not necessarily to say are) good coming out of their convention. It went off really well. The damned balloons even came down right.
However, what really convinced me that Kerry's just screwed was his response, from probably not 50 miles from me in Springfield, Ohio. He knew that he needed to take some aggressive action like scheduling a big rally at midnight, just as the Republican convention let out. Take the reigns, and seize the initiative.
Yet in the actual practice, you could just see him going through the motions. He's ticking off numbers and making the motions of emotional appeals, but the only thing about which he seemed actually emotional is his sense of personal hurt over how bad he's been filleted by his opponents. It's just not FAIR how those mean old Republicans are taking him apart.
President Bush had a big convention acceptance speech in the round Thursday climaxing with his story of an Iraqi visitor whose hand had been chopped off by Hussein's goons. Now here he is visiting the White House after the liberation of Iraq, using his prosthetic hand to write an Arabic prayer thanking God for the United States.
So then, here's how Kerry thought he was going to win the public's favor: an hour later, he gave a speech whose climax was a direct insult of the opponent's military records.
"Well, here is my answer to them: I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and who misled America into Iraq.
The vice president even called me unfit for office last night. Well, I'm going to leave it up to the voters to decide whether five deferments make someone more qualified than two tours of duty."
For starters, this Kerry attack looks particularly ungracious coming within not much more than 24 hours after Vice President Cheney had in fact publicly praised his military service, and led the Republican delegates in applauding him for it.
In the second place, he was obviously saying that there was a plural "those" who did not serve, meaning President Bush. He was, however, in the National Guard. So being in the National Guard doesn't count as serving your country? I'd like to see him make that argument at our local armory.
So then, the President of the United States gave an eloquent and moving acceptance speech talking about the heartbreak and loss of war, even while explaining the necessity of the sacrifice.
After which, John Kerry gave a speech about how his opponents weren't fighting fair, and they're all a big bunch of misleading liars anyway.
Now, which one looked like a PRESIDENT, and which one looked like a whiny boy who was up way past his bedtime?
