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To: LindyBill who wrote (56610)	7/28/2004 6:01:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793999

Good comments by Hugh Hewitt The Moore adoration is the most significant story of the convention. ....Howard Dean's running in 2008. That much is clear from his remarks this evening: "Never again will we be ashamed to call ourselves Democrats. Never. Never. Never. We're not just going to change presidents, we're going to change this country and reclaim the American dream." Look for that line and that clip to play over and over again as Dean travels the country in the aftermath of Kerry's loss. It is an elixer to the new, nutty Dems following Michael Moore around the convention, which will tgell them it wasn't their nuttiness that lost their election, but the refusal to go even farther over the cliff. Dean, Edwards, and maybe Hillary --it will be a fun cycle. The Moore adoration is the most significant story of the convention. Imagine inviting Lindberg to the GOP convention in 1944 and having him symbolize GOP opposition to FDR three years into the war. This is an insane strategy for the Dems, who have allowed their hatred of Bush to overwhelm their sense of propriety about nuts like Moore. But Kerry's on a very bad roll --from Whoopi's concert of hate and his wife's "shove it" outburt, to the bounced first pitch at Fenway and the weird Dukakis-in-a-tank moment in Florida, Kerry's clumsiness as a candidate has begun to appear again, illustrating the fuindamental dynamic of this race: When Kerry shows his face, his numbers fall. You can't hide a candidate for 98 days. Dems can console themselves with visions of Hillary, Howard and John on the circuit for the next four years. There isn't much else to cheer at this gathering --except Moore.