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Friday, October 8, 2004

I tuned in a half hour late tonight and now I'm listening on the radio.

John Kerry voted for the war in Iraq - he's just against actually prosecuting it.

He voted for the Patriot Act - he's just against enforcing it.

I wish George Bush would point out that many of the people who's opinions Kerry is using to bolster himself (like John McCain, for instance) are voting for *him* (Bush).

This is a frustrating experience. I'm listening on the radio. Kerry is simply better at throwing out figures.

Kerry is on the big-time attack, and Bush is at his best defense remaining poised and calm. He's disarming on stem-cells and the Supreme Court - he's calm. That's the best defense against a shrill opponent - especially when you are the President and your opponent only wants to be. I don't think brow-beating a poised President sells well.

Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that these things are utterly meaningless to a well-informed voter. We know what the candidates are about already.

Say, I wonder how the press will be telling us to interpret it.

Oh, one more thing: Kerry's vote to deny our troops the support of the 87 Billion wasn't just "talk." That's what he doesn't get. When you're a leader, you have to make decisions and be accountable for them. You can't sit around and say, "Well I wanted different funding, and I wanted this, and I wanted that..." OK, we all want things, but in the end, get them or no, you have to make a decision and stick to it. John Kerry voted to deny our efforts the funding. Be a man. Own your vote. That's the theme that runs through Kerry that repels me from him - his lack of personal responsibility and thus his horrible quality as a leader.

Good news: The Sox Won!

Update: This is tangentially related, but I did find it in the comments of Roger L. Simon's debate post. Jonah Goldberg:

...I'm not saying there are no good arguments against the war. I am saying that many of you don't care about the war. If Bill Clinton or Al Gore had conducted this war, you would be weeping joyously about Iraqi children going to school and women registering to vote. If this war had been successful rather than hard, John Kerry would be boasting today about how he supported it — much as he did every time it looked like the polls were moving in that direction. You may have forgotten Kerry's anti-Dean gloating when Saddam was captured, but many of us haven't. He would be saying the lack of WMDs are irrelevant and that Bush's lies were mistakes. And that's the point. I don't care if you hate George W. Bush; it's not like I love the guy. And I don't care if you opposed the war from day one. What disgusts me are those people who say toppling Saddam and fighting the terror war on their turf rather than ours is a mistake, not because these are bad ideas, but merely because your vanity cannot tolerate the notion that George W. Bush is right or that George W. Bush's rightness might cost John Kerry the election.

I get e-mails from you people every day and I see your candidate on TV every night. Shame on you all.


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