Enough Already!!
Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message
The irrepressable Michale Moore's exhortaton to faint-hearted Dems to put away their hankies and see Kerry through is a good tonic.
He got me with this paragraph:
If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.
The heart of his argument includes a "reality check" of 4 points he believes augers well for us if we hang in there.
1. The polls are wrong. He neatly summarizes what I have been seeing scattered elsewhere.
2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team.
3. His travels convince him there is a lot more unrest in the country than the mainstream media report, concluding with this admonition
Turn off the TV! (Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything else is just a sugar-coated lie).
4. Bush has so badly botched Iraq that Mr. and Mrs. Middle America must have to realize it.
Michael goes into the final turn with:
All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last Thanksgiving. It is this failure of monumental proportions that is going to cook his goose come this November.
'Tis a consumation devoutely to be desired.
Posted by Donald Douglas at September 21, 2004 12:08 PM