Who Is the Dumber One?

I haven’t left town, I’ve been ill. Flat on my back ill. Nothing serious, just the cold from Hell. I’m capable of some rational thought again.

The Kerry campaign is not going well. The NYT, surprisingly, ran a piece about Kerry and his campaign. All in all, it was not all that flattering. It pictured him as a waffler and as indecisive, always seeking out one more opinion. I’m beginning to wonder which of the two candidates is the dumber!

Liberals love to mock Bush about his mangled words. They point to the fact that he isn’t the quickest with the comeback or the snappy answer at times. Yet Kerry Goes to Wisconsin and calls the hallowed (To green Bay fans anyway) grounds upon which the Packers call home Lambert Field. It’s Lambeau Field and I guess it could be overlooked in the light of a rigorous campaign schedule but earlier in the campaign he named Eddie Yost as his favorite Boston red Sox player ever except nobody by that name ever played for Boston. Eddie played for the old Washington Senators, the Detroit Tigers and finally a two seasons with the old L.A. Angels. Then he praised the Ohio State Buckeyes near Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan. That he survived such idiocy without injury is amazing!

OK So as a sports fan, Kerry sucks. Oh, he can ski and ride a bike, wind surf too, but none of those are really team sports. It’s all about the individual. But there is a pattern there. You can chalk it up to campaign lag or you can see that an organized mind is not at work here.

Read this article and see if what you get from it. It’s not the original NYT, it is the same article published in another paper.

http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24410~2428559,00.html

Or could the answer just be that he is not looking for one more opinion, but covering for a less than brilliant mind trying to cope by seeming to examine reams of data. In other words, is he appearing to be cerebral when he is really lost? Indecisiveness is not the hallmark of a leader. Can you imagine a General on a battle field acting that way? He wouldn’t be a General for long and doubtful if he would have made it much past Captain (or Lieutenant in the Navy or pay grade O-3). I think O-3 is as high as you can get by just showing up on time and not getting anyone killed in the process. After that, it gets harder.

VW

Kerry's Message

Pundits on both sides are saying that no one is hearing Kerry's message. Some attribute it to his flip-flopping, some say it's his indecisiveness, some say he hasn't been able to form a coherent message. That's all true but that isn't the problem. If you know an alcoholic, you may say that the obvious problem is the booze. It IS a problem, but the booze is the result, not the cause. It's the same with Kerry. It's not the message or lack thereof.

Kerry's problem is like booze. The alcoholic is addicted to booze. He or she doesn't particularly care what brand of booze they drink, as long as it's booze! It doesn't matter to Kerry what he's saying. It doesn't matter if it is 180 degrees different then what he said yesterday, that doesn't really matter. If he thinks it gets the result, he'll say it.

The real problem with Kerry is not what he says. He could be saying the right things (He's not, but that isn't the point), but there is an underlying problem. You can't stand to listen to him for more than a few seconds. It doesn't matter what he says. He could say that all of a sudden he had some epiphany and is now a born-again Christian and endorse George W. Bush. It's not that anyone wouldn't believe him (OK they wouldn't, but for the sake of argument, bear with me), it's because within 3.8437 seconds, people have tuned him out!

Kerry oozes. When you listen to him, all you hear this northeast, green, yucky, liberal ooze that sounds like he is talking to you like a pedantic professor explaining Keats to a student who just asked a patronizing question. Only the patronizing student cares and the rest of the class fell asleep 3.8437 seconds after he started the explanation. I'm reminded of the Iowa Primary when Kerry beat Dean. How many times did I hear the clip, "Thank you Iowa for making me the comeback Kerry!" It sounded like some rich northeasterner thanking someone for their dollar donation to the "Friends of the Symphony." It oozes with look-down-your-nose insincerity.

I know that Dubya isn't exactly Mr. Orator. Dubya can mangle a word faster than a rattlesnake can strike. Dubya's style is not Reaganesque by any means. The difference is not so much his message or the words, it's that whatever he says, you feel like he believes it and wants you to believe it too. He might jumble a word, but he delivers it with a genuine sincerity that Bill Clinton wished he could muster. People believe Bush and it's not that a lot don't disbelieve Kerry per se; they just don't hear 90% of what he has to say.

Anybody agree or disagree?

What do you think?

VW

Just what the World Needs

Just what the world needs, another Conservative Blogger with an attitude. Oh well. Here I am and we'll see how this experiment takes shape.

I'm a Violence Worker. I work for the American War Machine. I'm 51 years old and I retired from the United States Air Force after 20 years in 1991. I live in WA State with my wife, three of our 8 children, our dog and three cats. (We each had 4 apiece from our previous marriage.) I now work for a major defense contractor in direct support of the USAF.

I believe in God and I believe in America.

Feel free to join, but also realize I am the benevolent dictator. Be nice, back up your statements with some kind of facts and you'll be welcome.

I'll be posting more as time allows. I make typos from time to time. Live with it.

Welcome, pull up a chair and sit on the floor.

VW