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Monday, July 7, 2008
Put Bush in the White House
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Bush I want to see in the White House — that’d be Jeb, the former governor of Florida and the most consistent conservative in the Bush lot — joined John McCain last week for a visit to the Basilica de Guadalupe, one of the holiest sites for Catholics in Mexico, where he declared that McCain will win.
Too bad he’ll win without Jeb on the ticket, but radical Dems and wobbly Republicans are probably not ready just yet to continue the family dynasty. After four years of — God, forbid — Democrats pursuing the national agenda that Barack Obama espouses, the American public will be begging for another four years of a Bush in the White House. That’d be Jeb.
John Kerry, the man that the world turns to for — well, nothing comes to mind but he’s out there opining anyway — said Sunday that McCain lacks the judgment to be President. Maybe. But McCain did have the good judgment to reject overtures from Kerry in 2004 that he join him on a bipartisan ticket.
On “Face the Nation,” Kerry said that McCain has made poor decisions on everything from tax cuts to Iraq. “John McCain … has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he’s made about the war,” said Kerry. “Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shia violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves.”
This is the thanks McCain gets for coming to Kerry’s rescue in 2004 when George W. Bush’s campaign accused him of being weak on defense. But, said Kerry, McCain has “changed.”
Too, Kerry said, “if you like the Bush tax cut and what it’s done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove.”
Ah, yes, the old “third term” routine. The Obama talking points.
Give us a rest on the “third term” just now. Wait for Jeb.
Listening to the candidates and their surrogates say things you know they don’t believe, you have to wonder: Do they really think we’re this stupid? Are we? Four years ago Kerry thought McCain had the stuff to be President. Now he’s “changed.” He thought the same thing of his eventual running mate, John Edwards. But he “changed” too.
Can anything any of them say between now and November — Obama, McCain and their surrogates — be believed?
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