7/28/2004
Okay, they’ve done it again. The very fact that Democrats haven’t learned from recent history but, instead, continue to play with fire tells me more than anything how broken this party really is.
Monday night, Democrats invited former VP Al Gore, AKA, “The Grim Reaper,” [url=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/washington/convention/speeches/072604cckkDNCalgore.1754ba3b.html]to speak at the Democratic National Convention on behalf of their new candidate, John F Kerry[/url]. Which means, of course, that poor Kerry is doomed!
Almost as an arbinger of that coming doom, Kerry’s campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, yesterday went on the air with Fox News to accuse NASA of leaking photos from Kerry’s visit to the Kennedy Center showing him in what some are calling a “bunny suit,” but which is actually a suit used by workers in space. John Glenn is with Kerry and in several photos, Kerry, Glenn, and a third person (whoever that might be) are obviously posing for picture, yet Ms. Cahill insisted that “no photos were supposed to have been taken,” and that the photos came as a complete surprise. I have heard a rumor, unverified at present, that a NASA official claims to have submitted the photos taken during the Kerry visit to his campaign for their review, but a few of the photos taken during the visit were also posted to the NASA website. Really, this is silly because, while Kerry does not really look all that great in the suit, he doesn’t look bad either.
The fact is, space suits rarely make you look good. They are built to protect human life, not human dignity.
The mistake here is that Ms. Cahill has turned a bad photo op into Grade-A fodder for Kerry critics by overreacting to a few not-so-dignified photos. Ms. Cahill should have gone on Fox News and LAUGHED at the photos and told Brit Hume and the Fox News audience how much fun Kerry had putting on the suit, crawling into a real rocket, visiting with John Glenn and NASA officials, etc. The mainstream public would have smiled and moved on. Really, thats all there is to the story and most everyone knows it.
Unfortunately, Ms. Cahill has turned something innocent into a conspiracy. When Hume asked Ms. Cahill if she thought this might be a “dirty trick” on the part of some officials at NASA, Ms. Hume responded, “What do you think?” BIG MISTAKE! Laugh and move on and the American people suddenly can appreciate Kerry for his ability to laugh at himself and show enthusiasm for something cool like putting on a real spacesuit and crawling into a rocket.
That and a new poll by ABC News and The Washington Post showing that Kerry’s momentum might be slipping have to be of great concern to Kerry supporters. All that, ironically happening the very day after Bill Clinton vowed to get Kerry elected as the next President and the day of Gore’s speech on behalf of Kerry.
Bill Clinton’s speech, was brilliantly delivered. [url=http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/washington/convention/speeches/072604ccjpConvBillClintontext.184541d5.html]NO ONE can speechify like our former President[/url], except perhaps the British PM, Tony Blair. The difference, of course, is that I trust what comes out of Blair’s mouth.
Case in point; about midway into his speech, Clinton spent a couple of minutes dividing the nation between rich and poor, the powerless and powerful, the caring and the cold-hearted, the victim and the victimizers. Then he goes on to conclude that “they [Republicans] have to portray us Democrats as unacceptable, lacking in strength and values. In other words, they need a divided America.” [emphasis mine] “Wow,” I said to myself, “Clinton pulls out the old ‘weak vs the powerful’line, akin to Edward’s ‘The Two Americas’spiel, and then claims that Republicans need a divided America? A bunch of malarky, but MAN did he make it sound good!”
But I digress.
The fact is, former VP Albert Gore has been the kiss of death to too many politicians for me to count. One of his latest casualties was Howard Dean. Gore showed up to give Dean an unexpected and ringing endorsement near the height of Dean’s campaign… And soon after Dean’s poll numbers began to collapse and Dean was routed in nearly every Democratic primary in America. Dean was called “unelectable” by voters, but I know better. What really happened was that Dean got Gore-d! As did Grey Davis in California, and numerous other Democratic candidates and incumbents.
In February, [url=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/8/133008.shtml]Newsmax highlighted how damaging Gore’s endorsements can be[/url]:
He is also becoming the butt of jokes. Bob Dole said he has advised the Kerry and Edwards campaigns that if Gore calls them, they should not return the phone call.
“I suppose people are going to be running away from Al Gore the way the devil runs away from holy water,” Paul Begala, a former Clinton aide, told the New York Times.
Please, you Democrats out there, listen to me… Al Gore is bad mojo. Be afraid, be VERY afraid!
David Flanagan
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4 Comments
You’re right about the Gorebot. His trail of failures is uncanny. Don’t forget that beard he sported around prior to us hunting down Al Qaeda…
Comment by BiPolrFrenzy — 7/29/2004 @ 9:20 pm
Yes, and he gave a speech on global warming on the coldest day of the year, and tried to get the movie, “The Day After” hyped to get people scared and the movie fizzled. Bad mojo!
Thanks,
David
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