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Campaign 2004
Bush for Sure
in 2004? |
 It
is a tale told by an idiot. A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing….
Macbeth, William Shakespeare.
This was not the kind of war room with which George Stephanopoulos was
familiar. Yes, the former top Clinton advisor turned network character
assassin was able to show off his latest haircut to his ABC viewing audience
— some 14 Democrats and a 90-year-old South Dakotan whose cable
was out and his remote control was missing. This first debate among Democrats
— victims of the Bush agenda — would accelerate only Disney’s
intention to sell its huge media presence. Stephanopoulos forced a smile
and his characteristic optimistic spin as he told viewers, “I’m
sure the newly liberated Iraqi people are looking in on this American
political process so that they can see what they have to look forward
to.”
The nine Democrats seeking regime change in Washington, DC appeared sure
that the rejuvenated Air National Guard pilot George W. Bush could be
returned to patrol the skies of Texas, even if he didn’t remember
where the Alamo was. Victory in 2004, for the Democrats at least, seemed
as certain as knowing that New Hampshire’s famed “Old Man
of the Mountain” would continue to be as solid as the rock where
nature carved it.
Democrats were so confident they even permitted Sen. Joe Liebermann —
apparently a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2004 — to
sit in on the debate. Liebermann, once a Democrat, has expanded on the
Bill Clinton manner. While Clinton had a way of taking over a Republican
agenda and making it his own, Liebermann has become so enthralled by GOP
ideas — like war and tax cuts — that George Bush is asking
him to move East to Rhode Island and run against incumbent US Senator
Lincoln Chafee. Despite the hospitality of Democrats in allowing him to
sit in on the debate, Liebermann was at his rudest, singing Hosanna’s
to Bush’s war behaviors and expressing interest in Bush’s
tax cut plan. President-elect Al Gore admits disappointment in his 2000
running mate. “He no longer deserves a key to the lockbox,”
Gore said from his Tennessee cave where he is quietly plotting his own
secret 2004 re-election campaign.
Liebermann is continuing his efforts to split up the remaining New England
delegation to the Democratic primaries. Massachusetts Senator .John Kerry,
who demanded a regime change in Washington despite his vote to give Bush
authority to capture the Iraqi oil fields, was first to play the “patriotism”
card against former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Kerry questioned Dean’s
capacity to serve as commander-in-chief even though the governor had once
mediated a dispute between Ben and Jerry that eventually kept the world
safe for Chunky Monkey. “In Vermont, we keep all of our unions civil,”
Dean reminded his opponents.
“I don’t need any lessons in Chunky Monkey from Howard Dean,”
intoned. Kerry while sipping from a Dairy Queen cup, signifying that he
intended to challenge George W. Bush in his home state.
Richard Gephardt challenged Dean as a medical doctor, noting that it was
doctors demanding expensive waterfront homes in Vermont that kept working
people unable to “ask their doctor” for purple pills. By making
doctors slaves to managed care under his health plan, Gephardt reminded
his opponent, the human touch could be entirely eliminated from life and
death decisions.
“That would be great for trial lawyers! “ North Carolina Senator
John Edwards agreed.
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