Tobiasly’s Blog

I’m sure lots of people dread this time of year, but I love it. Presidential election season is America at its best. And no, that’s not sarcasm — for all the faults of our government and the politics surrounding it, it’s still the best in the world.

I wonder if Kerry will now actually center his campaign around something besides what he did decades ago. I’m not going to question his service, although what he did afterwards was certainly traitorous. But it really burns me up every time Kerry shows up for some pep rally or stump speech, gives that dorky salute, and says “reporting for duty” or whatever. It’s such a blatant and disgusting display of pandering to the military.

Really, he served for a few months, thirty years ago, and now he thinks that qualifies him to be president. He whines about the Swift Boat Vets attacking him, while MoveOn.org and all the others have been doing the same to Bush for much longer. Well, now he’s slipping in the polls and he still wants to go on and on about his military service. Even his favorable ratings among veterans are dropping like a brick.

On a more positive note, the president’s speech tonight was awesome. Myself and many other Republicans were starting to worry about the fact that Bush hadn’t laid out a second-term agenda, but tonight certainly took care of that. Ahnold’s was great too, although I missed Zell Miller’s. Of course, everything can change at any moment, but I fully expect Bush to be up 6-8 points by next week.

I’m just thankful that Kerry is running such a lousy and misguided campaign. Otherwise, he could easily be up by double digits by now.