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Kerry and the Question of Mettle
Jul. 31st, 2004 01:48 pm~
"So now I'm disillusioned. What the Democratic Party is going through is not yet a genuine muscular centrist revival. As a friend joked, from the voters of Iowa to the delegates in Boston, there's been a vast left-wing conspiracy to present a candidate who looks like a muscular moderate, but they picked someone who is not in his heart of hearts a muscular moderate, or anything else."
-- David Brooks for The NY Times
Mr. Brooks gives us the other side of the great Kerry moment, with the idea that beneath the muscular posing of the campaign beats the heart of an unworldly pacifist. All remains to be seen, of course.
One just cannot stand another Bush term - this combination of Mr. Scrooge and a religious nutter. We only have to know that Mr. Kerry can be trusted, and that he is not afraid of our military.
( Brooks column )
"So now I'm disillusioned. What the Democratic Party is going through is not yet a genuine muscular centrist revival. As a friend joked, from the voters of Iowa to the delegates in Boston, there's been a vast left-wing conspiracy to present a candidate who looks like a muscular moderate, but they picked someone who is not in his heart of hearts a muscular moderate, or anything else."
-- David Brooks for The NY Times
Mr. Brooks gives us the other side of the great Kerry moment, with the idea that beneath the muscular posing of the campaign beats the heart of an unworldly pacifist. All remains to be seen, of course.
One just cannot stand another Bush term - this combination of Mr. Scrooge and a religious nutter. We only have to know that Mr. Kerry can be trusted, and that he is not afraid of our military.
( Brooks column )
