Tart and soul

John and John yuk it up at celeb fundraiser as Whoopi advises keeping "Bush where it belongs."

"Our republic works best when political parties are challenged by a principled opposition with integrity and seriousness," writes Charles Johnson with reference to an utterly unserious Kerry/Edwards all-star Bush-bashing fundraiser in NYC last night. A wine-swigging Whoopi Goldberg set the tone with a vulgar double entendre about keeping "Bush where it belongs and not in the White House." Comments Johnson:

But in a time of war, the Democrats are plunging into depths of hatred and derangement that are truly disturbing, and that can only end up damaging the political process — and in an Orwellian inversion of reality, they robotically parrot the words “real American values” as they descend into the abyss.

Michele had blogged about this gathering first thing this morning, asking rhetorically, "So that's the heart and soul of our country? Priveleged celebrities telling dirty jokes about the president? Quoting the two candidates' appreciation of the glory of it all:

Edwards said it was "a great honor" to be there and insisted, "This campaign will be a celebration of real American values."

Kerry thanked all the performers for "an extraordinary evening," hailed the "great producers" - Harvey Weinstein of Miramax and Jann Wenner -- and said "every performer tonight . . . conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country."

Oh, but it gets better, as Michele points out, quoting Bush campaign spokeman Steve Schmidt's riposte:

"It is a great example of John Kerry's priorities that on the day he said he did not have time to receive his intelligence briefing on threats to America, he found time to attend a Hollywood fund-raiser, filled with enough hate and vitriol to make Michael Moore blush," Schmidt said.

Schmidt was referring to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Member Kerry's interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" earlier last evening, excerpted as a news flash on the Drudge Report:

KING: News of the day, Tom Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States. Didn't increase the -- you see any politics in this? What's your reaction?

KERRY: Well, I haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just haven't had time.

Now this, just in on Drudge: GW's campaign manager is calling on Kerry "to release the video of this event so that all Americans can see what John Kerry has called America's 'heart and soul.'"

Comments

[rick]

Bet I'm not the only one wishing time would fly just a wee bit faster, and we can get this insane election year behind us. The amount of hatred and mouth-frothing coming from the left is frightening in its ferocity.
The heart and soul of America wants Bush where it belongs, all right - in the White House, Whoopi. Nobody I know wants to even THINK about yours.
Sure, he's not the greatest prez ever; sure, he's kind of a republican in name only sometimes, but damn, I shudder to think of the roll-back on the GWOT that'll follow a dem victory in November.
Scary. Very, very scary.
The only way I can see of a good outcome for a Kerry win is it'd keep Hill out of the running in '08. Well, if there was still a country left, and we still had elections, I mean.