"Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right."
---Robert Park
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MentalBlocks
Throwing Mental Blocks at Glass Constructions
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Friday, July 30, 2004
I missed Kerry's speech last night, so I'm having to get it secondhand through NPR excerpts and blog entries. The Washington Post has a pretty good op-ed on it. And Instapundit quotes a reader thusly:
It's no secret a great many Democrats are skeptical of Mr. Kerry. These are exactly the Democrats now arguing that he can win by signaling to voters an end to America's exertions, an end to drama, a time of rest. That's the real message of Mr. Kerry's constant invoking of Vietnam. That's the real strength of his campaign: I was daring and adventurous then, and had my fill.
As many predicted, his political base will not allow him to pull a Clintonesque move to the center. This election will be the final test of the old left--testing their hypothesis that the Great Society and the old social contract was the correct way to take America into the future. It seems to me that the public has already made its intentions clear, that the hypothesis has already been disproven, and that the hard-core left simply hasn't come around to accepting that. It's going to get ugly when they face the facts and realize not only that they've lost the election, but their entire ideology has been soundly rejected.
Hang on folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
11:58 AM
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