| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
13:26 - "Finally, we have started swinging"
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Now's the time when all the bizarre accusations that have been leveled against Bush-- his AWOL thing, the WMD thing, the economy, all that-- are going to suddenly start blowing up in the Democrats' faces.
"The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions," Bush said. "They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. They're in favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts."
Not least among the unfounded accusations will be that Bush is a witless buffoon-monkey. If this is just the opening salvo against the likes of Kerry and the others who opposed war, they can look forward to a fun campaign full of one-liners like this:
"They now agree that it's better that Saddam Hussein is out of power. They just didn't support removing Saddam from power," Bush said, a smile growing across his face. "Maybe they were hoping he would lose the next Iraqi election."
I keep using the 1996 election as the model for this one. Only this time it's Bush who gets to be Clinton, with the amiable grin and the casual jibes and the ease of the incumbent with everything going his way. And it'll be Kerry running on Dole's dour old platform of "You're not as happy as you think you are!"
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Brian Tiemann
