This morning, I wrote, “If the speech is a flop, the convention will have been a failure. If the speech is a hit, the convention will have been a success.” So now that it’s almost done, what do I think? Well… I’d say it’s neither. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just… eh.
“Senators and menators of Congress”? Heh.
UPDATE: Becky writes: “This is boring. I just can’t think of any witty commentary. He’s not giving me anything to work with.”
Yeah, I’m kinda bored too. Okay, so maybe the speech is bad.
Nice shot at the Saudi royal family, though.
CAN WE PLEASE SEND CLINTON INSTEAD? Or maybe Obama? Or Edwards?
ZZZZZ: He’s still talking. Here’s a good analysis of Kerry from Ann Althouse’s son:
[In the primaries], everyone was voting for him because they thought he would appeal to someone else. And those voters believed at the time that that was the politically savvy thing to do. But it was actually politically disastrous: if everyone was just voting for him because they thought someone else would like him, then NO ONE ACTUALLY LIKED HIM.
One problem is that if you’re trying to choose the most “electable” person, I would imagine that you’d be likely to do it by process of elimination — by ruling out all the candidates with obvious political liabilities. I think this is the number-one reason why Kerry won the primaries: he was the only candidate who didn’t seem to have anything particularly wrong with him. Edwards was too inexperienced; Clark was a poor campaigner; Dean seemed kind of insane; Gephardt was too liberal; Lieberman was too conservative. So they choose the one candidate who has no qualities that would really make anyone hate him. The problem is that he also has no qualities that would really make anyone like him either.
He just finished! But where are the balloons?
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Categories: Election 2004
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July 29th, 2004 at 10:26:00 pm
I don’t really know what to say, except that I really, really, like our chances. Bush by 5.
July 29th, 2004 at 10:32:26 pm
By 5, eh? 271-266, again?
:)
July 29th, 2004 at 11:35:45 pm
I saw that coming and thought about changing my wording to 5%, but I wanted to leave it open on purpose cuz I knew you’d say something. ;-)
July 29th, 2004 at 11:45:16 pm
I’ll go with that — except that it’s Kerry by 5. This time the 1 Abstention (“I abbastain” :) comes from Utah, where Republican Elector Moroni Romney withholds his vote in protest against the discriminatory & unconstitional refusal to grant recognition to polygamy, which he calls “the disenfranchisement of the ultimate in Family Values.”
Bush holds Ohio & Florida and wins the national Popular by 238,771. Republicans, with straight faces, cry Larceny & Fraud.
The deciding state turns out to be Arizona, where Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano peremtporily overrules Republican Secretary of State Janice K. Brewer and certifies the Democratic Electoral slate as the winners by 9 votes based on returns from the Hopi Nation that Brewer had disallowed on technical grounds.
Brewer & Bush sue. SCOTUS denies certiorari, with a cryptic unsigned note stating, “In a Pig’s Eye, we will.” An agreement is then negotiated for the issue to be decided by a game of Poker between Governor Napolitano and Senator John McCain at the summit of Goldwater Peak.
During play, covered with unprecedented intensity by news media worldwide, McCain accuses Napolitano of cheating. She decks him.
Bush concedes the election.
:)