[Pokey78]

[UnklGene]

Thanks, Pokey! This is better than the Sun-Times article.

[UnklGene]

Thanks, Pokey! This is better than the Sun-Times article.

[mylife]

Having met him, I'm sceptical of Kerry's extraordinarily high valuation of his personal charm. But the notion that he'll be able to bring the French on board would seem to be at odds with Jean-Pierre Rafarin, the French prime minister's aside to a representative of Le Figaro the other day that "the Iraqi insurgents are our best allies". In a summit showdown between Chirac and Rafarin on the one hand and Kerry on the other, I bet on the Gallic weasels.

Speaking as a third-rate hack, I'd say that as a general rule articulacy is greatly over-rated. But, if articulacy is the measure, how come Kerry can't articulate an Iraq policy any of us can understand? By contrast, for an inarticulate man, Bush seems to communicate pretty clearly.

Steyn spares no one in this article but clearly defines the truth.

[tell me]

I agree that this election is primal. I just think a lot of real undecideds will go into the voting booth and vote for Bush. The terror threat will hit them like a sudden sweat just as the go to vote, and they'll be afraid to vote for Kerry. They really don't know Kerry, but they do know Bush has kept us free from attack for 3 years.

[Madame Dufarge]

Those of us who've been sweet on George W Bush for a long time have got used to these moments.

How true, but don't tell that to the Panic Brigade.

[GretchenM]

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[knighthawk]

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[irv]

We're post-Clinton: you can't triangulate your way to victory.

Hope he's right...

[Bandaneira]

Mark Steyn is a very good writer. He is also a very good word-smith. I wonder how much of a thinker he really is.

I have a question for him...

How will the question of sovereignty over the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the Holy Land finally be decided ?

He is a good Jewish boy, so I wonder if he knows about the 12th Article of Faith ?

(Mark, if you read this, send me a reply.)