Politics Today

9/9/04

I watched in dismay the Democratic convention. The idea that these people could take control of my country was frightening. When Senator Kerry Reported for Duty, I almost couldn't believe it. He has somehow convinced himself (but luckily not all of us) that the only requirements for becoming the President of the United States is to have served in Vietnam, gotten medals and not be George Bush.

After the convention, he got a negative bounce. The pundits of the liberal media all immediately jumped up and defended him and the conventional explanation was that there were so very few undecided voters that a bounce was not possible. They didn't mention that a negative bounce implies losing support. We weren't supposed to notice that.

The Republican convention was, to this obviously unbiased reporter, extremely well done. The speeches indicated the differences within the party's big tent. The Zell Miller speech was possibly the best I have heard in a long time. Zell was angry. Arnold was happy to be an American. Rudy was happy to be in New York and a lot of the others just seemed happy.

President Bush gave his speech and against the gentleman's agreement that has long existed, Senator Kerry spoke the same night. The result? An 11 point bounce for George W Bush. I guess all of the undecided voters decided at the same time? Wait...There aren't any undecided voters. It must have been the Kerry voters that decided to change sides. Wait.... Yeah, maybe. Who knows where the bounce came from--I'm just glad to see it.

I just know that the difference in the tone of the conventions were reflected by the polls. Happy people are a lot better to watch than pople that are working so hard at not saying what they want to say. You could tell that most of the Democrats wanted to shout something along the lines of "Bush is Satan". What will happen in the future is yet to be seen. I think that it will be a large win for the President but I guess we will have to wait until November to see. I hope so!