Well, That Wasn’t So Bad
For us, I mean. Bush’s speech was a weak laundry list of ideas he proposed four years ago. Yawn. Rebutting this crap was is so easy, John Kerry was already on the stump an hour later.
I really thought Bush would avoid mentioning Kerry at all. My guess (which I was gonna write up this afternoon) was that last night and tonight were gonna be a good cop/bad cop thing. Instead, he channeled Jeff Foxworthy for his “If you ________, you don’t share conservative values” riff.
Bush’s delivery was as stiff as his state of the union. And that speech tanked. It was made even better by the fact that he let the protesters screw with his head. When they were getting dragged out, the crowd actually drowned out their leader by yelling “Four more years!” Not knowing what to do, Bush just kept on going as if nothing was happening. If he was quick on his feet, he would have waited for the protester to get dragged out and made a quip like : “I thought all the angry Kerry supporters were outside. If you think she’s mad now, you should see her come November”.
To sum the convention up :
Republicans own 9/11. McCain and Guiliani represent a party that doesn’t exist. The Bush twins give us a good idea of what their dad was like in his twenties. Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t speak for more than three minutes without stealing a line from Hans and Franz (which was a parody of him). Zell Miller is a lunatic. Dick Cheney is a grumpy old man who can’t even come up with new lies to use against Kerry. George Bush has the oratory skills of a little boy.
If anyone’s getting a bump out of this convention, it’s the Dem’s. Seriously.
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Hells Bells, did you read/see Kerry’s speech? All I could think about was the OG Punchout: UPPERCUT! UPPERCUT! RIGHT CROSS! LEFT JAB! LEFT JAB! RIGHT HOOK!
Seriously, it was awesome, the kind of calling-out-the-bullsh*t we’ve waited far too long for.
In other news, I’d like to suggest you’re not being very nice to children, comparing their oratory skill to Dubya’s. He’s barely literate. At least children can actually read my pet goat.
1…2…3
OOOH Daaayum!
Comment by The Eligible Ross Lincoln — September 3, 2004 @ 1:58 am
He also channeled Jeff Foxworthy’s newest stick, “I believe…” I seriously though I was watching Blue Collar TV for a minute.
Comment by Charlie — September 3, 2004 @ 5:46 am
i hope you’re right, but i dont think so. the democratic convention was subdued. they gave instructions for speakers to not go on the offensive. no such restraint in the garden. i saw all of their rhetoric as bullshit, but it was strong and consistant and they beat the hell out of kerry. i think bush is gonna show pretty strong in the polls next week and kerrys gonna have a lot of ground to make up.
Comment by josh — September 3, 2004 @ 8:06 am
I’d have to agree with Josh on ths one. TIME polls have Bush at a lead in the double-digits. However, we’re entering the really crucial times that everyone casting their vote is going to remember; hopefully Bush will just keep hurting himself and Kerry will manage to climb back up.
All I really know is that if Bush somehow wins come election time, I’m packing up and shipping out. This country’s headed to hell.
Comment by Angel — September 3, 2004 @ 2:03 pm
There’s got to be some kind of problem with Time’s polling. Every single other poll shows a very minor Bounce for Bush at best, yet the Time poll shows him suddenly trouncing Kerry. I don’t believe it.
Comment by the eligible Ross Lincoln — September 3, 2004 @ 3:10 pm
I used to agree with Angel. I thought, if Bush wins again, I’m leaving. But lately, I’ve been thinking I’ll stay, even if he wins, even if he cheats and wins. One reason is that I’ve found myself feeling more actual love for this country then I have in a long time. Why, I don’t know… Another is that many other people are upset about the Bush administration – a lot more people than I would have thought were paying attention. I suppose that speaks to a certain lack of respect I have for the electorate.
But the biggest reason I won’t be leaving anytime soon is that, in the end, you can’t sustain a regime based on hate, fear, and theft forever, and when they finally go down in defeat I want to know that I was there, that I participated, and that I didn’t shirk my duty to this country and the world that it rules. I want to kick ‘em when they’re, finally, down.
Ironically, I will feel much better about emmigrating if John Kerry won this November.
Comment by Joe — September 3, 2004 @ 6:28 pm
Those polls showing Bush trouncing Kerry are not worth the paper they are written on (or the webspace they are hosted on). Look, every poll you see out there asks “Registered Voters” who they would vote for. And many times, they call people on “land lines” who voted in 2000. I know a lot of people who don’t even have a land line anymore (I still do, but landline = oldschool).
I recently went to the Vans Warped Tour (most of the music sucked, I’ll be honest) and all I saw was anti-Bush/pro-Kerry shirts, merchandise, and every band shouting it during the concerts (which actually got old to me, someone who donated a few hundred dollars to Kerry). Don’t worry about the polls, as I’ve read elsewhere, polls like this are created to put fear into the hearts. People start thinking defeat, and there it is.
Look, I converted an ex-girlfriend who voted Bush last time because she didn’t know the issues and liked Bush (hell, she is literally a single-mom and social worker who wants to help people. It wasn’t hard to convert her to (D)). We talked about politics, and now she can’t stand Bush about as much as me. My roommate didn’t vote in 2000, and he’s pissed. I got him to register to vote last year, and he’s voted twice now in little tiny local elections. He HATES Bush. Hell, I voted Nader in 2000, along with a dozen or so of my friends. We’re not stupid enough to do that again ;)and guess what, I/we live in Ohio (swing state supreme). I hear all the time how “ten people in ohio are going to decide the election”, well I know personally more than 10 votes for the (D) that didn’t vote (D)in 2000 in Ohio. And I live in Cincinnati also, the hotbed of Repuglicans in Ohio. Don’t be afraid…you don’t see in the polls the people who are going to vote in November. You see the people sitting at home who answer their phone (and if you pay attention to these polls that show Bush trouncing Kerry, the polls were taken DURING the Repug convention). And the polls even called more registered Repubs than Dems… Don’t fret…I am the voice of Free Ohio.
I think this election will be a lot more Kerry than anyone is even thinking (minus terrorist attack, WMD in Iraq or the Oct. Surprise that Bin Laden is being held in Dubya’s basement in Texas). Ol’ Dubya ain’t registering new voters in any comparison to Kerry/Dems. No way, no how. It’s not the independents who will turn this election, it’s the new voters who haven’t voted before. Can’t you feel it? I can. Work and fight, but don’t fear…thats what the Repugs want.
Comment by Nick from the USA — September 4, 2004 @ 6:47 pm