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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (597819)	7/30/2004 6:42:26 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Convention Rapid Response Team Boston, Day Four. Dan Casey The face of the Kerry campaign received a large injection of rhetorical botox tonight as the extreme makeover finished up. The six-hundred-million-dollar man (pre-nup notwithstanding) now contains a straighten spine of Cheneyum, replacing a spine of Kofianium formerly bent in supplication to the United Nations. ("We can rebuild him....") Okay, I can't go on like this. Kerry will get his bounce. The Speech accomplished the basics and more. His war service, heroism, the flag, and call for a larger military positions him (to the average undecided voter tuning in) as a strong patriot and a strong leader. Commander-in-chief material. That's gotta be worth a few points. It will take a sustained attack on Kerry's liberal 20-year defense voting record to bring his public image more in line with reality. By my calculations, his 5,221-word speech (thank you, Mr. Drudge) contained exactly 71 words about his 20-year Senate career. That is the dog that didn't bark tonight. RNC chief Ed Gillespie has that 20-year record memorized and that dog barks and bites. Kerry also used The Speech to try and steal away from Republicans the "values" issue just as Republican-strategist extraordinaire Jeff Bell had predicted. The domestic-policy "initiatives" (if they can be called that) were mostly the usual Democrat bread and butter stuff. Nothing too interesting there. I guess we must wait for the unveiling of his "middle-class tax cut." Shades of 1992! Although the average voter had no idea what he was referring to, Kerry's "let's never misuse for political purposes the most precious document in American history, the Constitution of the United States" was directed to gay-marriage supporters. He was signaling how he intends to oppose the very popular Federal Marriage Amendment, while also opposing same sex marriage. A classic Kerry straddle on an issue not mentioned once during prime time at the convention but a potential sleeper issue of the campaign. On to New York. July 30, 2004 National Review Online