Friday, August 6, 2004
Rudy's zinger:
(Via LGF) New York Post: Rudy - John is Moore's Stooge
In a statement issued by the Bush campaign, Giuliani charged, "John Kerry must be frustrated in his campaign if he is armchair-quarterbacking based on cues from Michael Moore."
Giuliani pounced after Kerry hammered Bush's first reaction to the news of the Twin Towers attack, which came while the president was reading to schoolkids in Florida.
Kerry yesterday said that if he were president on Sept. 11, 2001, he wouldn't have continued reading for seven minutes as Bush did after learning of the attacks — which is highlighted in Moore's "Fahrenheit 911."
"Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to . . . and I would have attended to it," Kerry said.
Giuliani commented, "John Kerry is an indecisive candidate [with] an inconsistent position on the War on Terror, who voted against funding for our troops and who cannot give a clear answer on his position concerning the decision to remove Saddam Hussein."
Why does Kerry do that? He's been doing this petty, silly-sounding "I woulda done it THIS way..." crap since early in the campaign. Does it sound good to anyone? I've never thought people bragging about how they woulda done it better ever sound good. It's so damn childish. Here's the truth: You have NO IDEA what you would have done, Senator. None at all. That's the truth. The truth is also that this man just can't put up a consistent face and policy, so everything he does is a sort of petty reaction to the man in charge. He can't or won't tell us what he'd do right now. He can't convince us to trust what he says about what he'll do in the future - even if he were to actually offer us something - he's been so inconsistent, how could we take it seriously? All he can do is cast himself in somebody else's past - just as he cast himself in those Vietnam stories all those years ago. At least in the case of Vietnam, he was actually there. All he can do in the case of the Presidency is visualize himself in someone else's shoes and try to convince us all that he'd do better than the original. Sorry. I'm not buying.
