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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5723)3/20/2004 9:21:47 PM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Another Brahmin eruption



Mar. 19, 2004 11:30 AM

WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT
FOR HILLARY AND '08

Phil Boas
"Plugged In" editor

I was trying to recall the exact moment I lost interest in the 2004 presidential race. It was March 7, the day The New York Times published Maureen Dowd's gushing paean to John Kerry.

Dowd gloried in the "vast palette of cultural preferences" that paint the Kerry persona. Why, he not only reads Keats and Shelley and T.S. Eliot, he writes his own verse on the "barren desolation of the desert."

That of course is when he's not in "his Fellini stage" or gracefully plucking Segovia on his classical guitar.

Of course, sometimes Kerry slips into manly moments of Hemingway, but Dowd reassures us he's no "simple brush-clearing, ESPN watching fellow" - an oh-so-cunning clever to the guy in the White House.

I've never found Dowd particularly enlightening, but I did on March 7.

She opened my eyes to the utter irrelevance of this election.

Not much unites Americans in these polarized days of talk radio and cable screaming heads, but we do share one thing in common and have since the birth of our Republic.

We hate snobs.

Americans aren't going to elect John Kerry and his "vast palette of cultural preferences," and we're certainly not going to elect a man who electrifies Maureen Dowd.

So when I read today that Kerry cussed out his secret service agent for making him fall on the ski slopes, I just found it hard to work up any interest. One more Brahmin eruption. Yawn.

This thing is over.

It was two weeks ago.

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