"How awful of John Kerry to give Osama bin Laden credit for determining the outcome of the election!" writes Ann Althouse in a gem of a final write-off of the big loser:
I'm sure bin Laden appreciates your acknowledgement of his influence, which is exactly what he seemed to want.
I'm sure Kerry feels a lot of pressure to explain his loss, but he really ought to resist giving bin Laden this affirmation. The fact that Kerry would say that bin Laden holds this power over the minds of Americans, for me, reinforces the mistrust of Kerry that made me decide to vote for Bush. And Kerry's contempt for us -- we're just scared, and without a bin Laden tape, we'd have forgotten about bin Laden! -- is just one more hearty shove in the direction he sent me two months ago.
Exactly. Like so many of our betters in the political class -- take John McCain with his global-warming demagoguery, blogged here yesterday, where he assumes we little people are too stupid and lazy to be up on the science -- these titans think they can manipulate our dependency and cluelessness at will. Especially now that we have the blogosphere to test conventional wisdom and outright deception, they're going to have to start showing a little respect. Besides, had Kerry been paying attention to the blogs, he would have realized that Osama was rooting not for GW, but for Kerry himself.
He had to have an excuse, so that's the one he pulled out at that moment. Today might be different; he is, after all, the "flipper". Quite different from the "Gipper". :)
He's like all the other liberals who just can't understand that their guy lost, especially to "someone like W".
AND complaining non-stop to anyone who will listen, thus all the sky-high psychologist bills.
I wish them all good mental health. ;)
Posted by: pam | November 20, 2004 at 08:49 AM
It seems that Kerry will go to any lengths to blame anything except himself for his loss in the election. Reminds me of when he fell down snowboarding and blamed the Secret Service guy who accompanied him (or, as Kerry called him, that "son of a b***h").
I like that you point out the arrogance of "our betters in the political class." If only we in the electorate were as smart, sophisticated, well-informed as they are, why, of course we'd recognize their inherent superiority and shower them with the acclaim they're so entitled to!
What a crock. Bush won on the security issue (bin Laden tape or not) and he won on the personal character issue. Kerry got knocked down by a stand-up guy, plain and simple. But it doesn't surprise me that he's unable to recognize it.
Posted by: Vanuatu | November 21, 2004 at 06:15 AM
Eloquently put, Vanuatu. I agree with your every word. :)
Posted by: Sissy Willis | November 21, 2004 at 06:51 AM