Thursday, January 15, 2004
Here's one of the ads the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) is running in newspapers to highlight conservative opposition to a Constitutional Marriage Amendment.
I'm being bombarded with pro-Dean e mails from liberal-left friends & orgs. None completely convincing from their left perspective. There's a tone of desperation in the daily barrage of spam I receive from MoveOn. & watching West Wing puts a surreal spin on it, given that Martin Sheen was on board early with Dean. Other old-time liberals I know are more cautious: John Kerry isn't exactly centrist sellout. I wanted to like John Edwards - sucker that I am for enlightened Southern & Border State Democrats (I was born nine days after Truman was elected) - he failed to stimulate.
Anyway, that "tone of desperation" is justified. Bush is shaping a reelection campaign that more & more resembles Nixon in '72. But its weakness is that it is a pastiche; War President, Peacemaker, Space Travel Visionary (yawn), Agent of Christian Righteousness, with a messianic post-convention return to New York on 9/11. Bit of Reagan here, Kennedy there, even Clinton, not to mention Moses. Then, amazingly, one expects him to break into a verse of Woody's "Deportee" down in old Monterrey. Bush's handlers figure if they bury him in enough bullshit, no Democrat will be able to dig him out by November.
Current Temperature, Rahway NJ: 5F, wind gusts to 30 mph.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
I'm being bombarded with pro-Dean e mails from liberal-left friends & orgs. None completely convincing from their left perspective. There's a tone of desperation in the daily barrage of spam I receive from MoveOn. & watching West Wing puts a surreal spin on it, given that Martin Sheen was on board early with Dean. Other old-time liberals I know are more cautious: John Kerry isn't exactly centrist sellout. I wanted to like John Edwards - sucker that I am for enlightened Southern & Border State Democrats (I was born nine days after Truman was elected) - he failed to stimulate.
Anyway, that "tone of desperation" is justified. Bush is shaping a reelection campaign that more & more resembles Nixon in '72. But its weakness is that it is a pastiche; War President, Peacemaker, Space Travel Visionary (yawn), Agent of Christian Righteousness, with a messianic post-convention return to New York on 9/11. Bit of Reagan here, Kennedy there, even Clinton, not to mention Moses. Then, amazingly, one expects him to break into a verse of Woody's "Deportee" down in old Monterrey. Bush's handlers figure if they bury him in enough bullshit, no Democrat will be able to dig him out by November.
Current Temperature, Rahway NJ: 5F, wind gusts to 30 mph.
