Wesley Clark was right to remind us what FDR had said about lies, that repetition cannot turn a lie into the truth. They both would know. How do otherwise reasonable, logical individuals fall prey to the sophistry on display at the moronic convergence at Boston’s Fleet Center? I can understand how the men in that audience became witless, weak-willed liberals. It is the lonely hope for love, a longing for lust or at least a levitra interlude. (“Maybe I can score if, in this age-old battle of the sexes, I can show just how sensitive I am.�) But for the women in this audience there must be another excuse. The good news is that Wesley and the other hired tongues can only fool those who wish to be fooled. Now, John Edwards was right about America being two countries. There is the one in which its citizens asked not what their country could do for them, and the one in which the citizens asked what their government could do for us. The Democrats created the latter.
Nancy Palosi, the House Minority Leader, having overdosed on Botox, actually mentioned God in her address. Whatever happened to the separation of church and state that she and her Democrat colleagues consistently champion? Strangely enough though, none of the lies she repeated became the truth. She mentioned the “cynical tactic of fear�. She would know.
With a straight face, Kerry’s daughter told us that at his core he had integrity. Really! Perhaps it evolved out of his Christmas epiphany in 1968 in Cambodia. Afterwards, Alex, the apple of Afleck’s eye, left us with the best image of the night, recalling when dear old dad provided CPR to a sodden rodent. I can only picture him doing it while wearing his baby blue NASA bunny suit. If only he was so compassionate toward the unborn humans on their way through the birth canal.
I’ve concluded that Kerry is scary! He is more to be feared than Bill Clinton (but not as much as Hillary). Bubba’s agenda was to be liked by everyone. Kerry has a real agenda (apart from getting elected by any means necessary). Having been born in the left wing of the VA hospital in urban Colorado and growing up in Massachusetts, it is not hard to imagine what that agenda might be. His speech was technically good, as speeches go. His only gaffe was his completely appropriate reference to “hair pollution�. His biggest applause line was in quoting our nation’s first Republican President, asking whether or not we are “on God’s side�; an interesting point for the oh so secular senator from Massachusetts, someone who has clearly sided with the ACLU against God at every opportunity. He relied on his war experience, this four-month resume’, that renders him ready to lead our military, much to the delight of his anti-war audience, I’m sure. The whole spectacle of his service in Vietnam dripped with hypocrisy, especially in light of his subsequent crusade against the war and his 20 year voting record in the Senate against nearly every defense item to come to the floor. It should be clear that if Kerry had his way in the last 20 years, we would still be scraping the national windshield, shoveling the Western walks and generally laboring in Cold War limbo while cringing and clinging to the hope that the international terrorists would not attack us again.
Perhaps the picture that impressed me most, however, is that of a man with dark and lifeless eyes, set too deep to fathom, animated by some power that did not seem to wholly reside within. Was it merely his obsession with the ghosts of PT boats past, and some hollow incarnation of a more shadowyJFK from the Commonwealth, or was it some sort of possession that provided what passed for passion in his personna and drove the spittle to the corners of his mouth? Yes, Kerry is scary.