Saturday, October 02, 2004

The Kerry Syndrome

The Democrat is captured by George W. Bush — and Richard Nixon.

Jonah Goldberg writes that John "war criminal" Kerry is acting and sounding more and more like Nixon. Not the dignified Nixon of later years, but the sweaty paranoid Nixon of the Watergate era. It seems that every few days we hear of a new conspiracy which was cooked up in Texas to ruin the solar system, burn down black churches, bring back the draft and steal your kid's tuition money. The problem is that we are hearing these theories not from the sterno bum on the corner, as we might expect, but from Senator Kerry as part of his official campaign policy of the moment. Next week he will be claiming that Bush has a secret plan to build a theme park on a Central American island and stock it with cloned dinosaurs. If only the lawyers will let him.

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