For Bush it's a step closer to reelection (GOP putdown of Kerry selection)

[papau]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/03/for_bush_its_a_step_closer_to_reelection/

JEFF JACOBY
For Bush it's a step closer to reelection
By Jeff Jacoby, 3/3/2004

<snip>Just as they did four years ago with Al Gore, in 1988 with Michael Dukakis, in 1984 with Walter Mondale, and in 1980 with Jimmy Carter, the Democrats are poised to nominate a tedious blister as their standard bearer. In the months ahead, the voters will be harangued and hectored by Kerry, who will lecture them about how Bush has been the worst president in modern times, the Bush economy the most desperate, the Bush foreign policy the most reckless.

As spring and summer give way to fall, it will gradually dawn on many of them that Kerry isn't actually saying anything. What was true of the first President Bush, they will discover, is true of Kerry: He has no "vision thing." He has a sonorous answer to every question, but the more he talks -- and he talks a lot; his default setting is "filibuster" -- the less voters will be able to put their finger on why he wants to be president or whether anything about him is more than an inch deep.

"Excited by his resume, his panache as a war hero, Americans from coast to coast will be disappointed in the real man," writes Jack Beatty, an ardent liberal, in The Atlantic Online. "They will long for him to stop his answers at the one-minute mark and by Minute 2 will have tuned out, and by Minute 3 will pine for the terse nullity of George W. Bush." <snip>

Democrats thought Reagan was an idiot and a cowboy as well, too simplistic and dangerous to be given the keys to the White House. "When the globe is a tinderbox, we need a president who knows what he's doing. We need a president who . . . has been tested by experience, who has read and remembered history . . . who sees force as a last and not as a first resort." That was Walter Mondale in 1984, sounding a lot like Kerry in 2004.<snip>

[damnyankee2601]

1. Blah Blah Blah

If that's the best they can do, the GOP is in deep voodoo.

All ad-hominem, no substance.

[grannylib]

2. What a case of wishful thinking...from someone who probably thinks

Ronnie should be canonized...
Democrats were right; Reagan was an idiot and a cowboy. Mondale was right; we did need a president who knew what he was doing, we just didn't get one.

And Kerry is correct now: Bush must go, for the good of the nation and the planet!! No more Republican morons in the White House, please, please...the current resident must have queued up twice for oatmeal instead of standing in line for the grey matter that belongs between one's ears...

[booksenkatz]

3. Well, Jeff....

our "tedious blister" kicked your ignorant, kill-happy chimp's appointed-by-the-Supreme Court ass by half a million votes last time, cupcake. We're going to kick it again in November. Suck on it. Anyone who thinks we're on the right course and is hoping for another 4 years of this clearly disastrous, ruinous, murderous administration is either a) an inbred freak, b) making money off this administration's policies, or c) living in a fantasy world. There is no in between. You can't call a pile of steaming horseshit "perfume." It is not a matter of opinion.

Kerry was not my first choice, but he's a thousand times the man the miserable failure is. I'll work my ass off for him. I literally will not be able to survive financially (and otherwise) another 4 years of this living hell.

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[booksenkatz]

9. Uh

You must have a son in Iraq, right? Or else you're going to suit-up yourself and join the fun over there? Such unwavering support for this administration must surely be reflected in your personal sacrifices, am I correct?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I have heard these kinds of attacks from the

rank and file... if this is the best they can do in editorials, they are in trouble and they know it.

[damnyankee2601]

5. E-mail Jeff and tell him so. I did.

"Ahh. Just another right-wing flak working for the "librull" media. If that's the best you can do, the GOP is in deep voodoo. All ad-hominem, no substance.

Your profession has abdicated it's responsibility to the electorate to ask tough questions and follow up in favor of sitting at a keyboard and typing propoganda. Then you wonder why you are more despised than lawyers."

[many a good man]

6. "...terse nullity" ?

of George W. Bush...

I love that.

[lovedems]

7. That's so funny! Kerry has a vision I agree with completely

and that is the worst pResident in American history must go! That's an excellent vision if you ask me.