The confused constituency [the moron vote]

The Washington Times ^ | March 12, 2004 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[expat_panama]

Recently, I have been making my own scholarly contribution to political scientists' understanding of the 2004 election by identifying a rising new constituency within the electorate, the moron vote.

Those who compose it are the angry, the fearful and the unaccountably neurotic. When they beheld Dr. Howard Dean hollering in public about how very angry he was, they thought of Abraham Lincoln. Now they behold Sen. John Pierre Kerry boasting of all the hair he has on his chest, the medals on his wall and his grim plans for President George W. Bush and they think of John F. Kennedy or maybe Robespierre

[expat_panama]

Evidently only morons believe it's a 'jobless recovery'. Finally.

[cripplecreek]

Speaking as a self employed person I'm seeing a lot more self employed people than there used to be.

[familyofman]

"Are these statistics sound? Mr. Kerry does not ask that question, but some economists are asking it. One, Brian Wesbury, a man distinguished for his reading of economic trends and business achievement, has looked carefully at the economy and found job growth where others have failed to look."

Just for the record - Brian Wesbury has been wrong more often than he's been right over the last 4 years. I wouldn't use him as an example of an economist to rely on for sound economic analysis and projections. I quit using his investment firm because of his reliably wrong analyses.

[CatoRenasci]

Kerry the Frog as Robespierre!

That is an absolutely priceless image. A cartoon ad showing Kerry as Robespierre leading all of the republican leaders to the guillotine while Chirac, Schroeder, Kim, Saddam and Cuffy Annan cheer would be priceless.

[expat_panama]

And when you tell the morons the fact that more people are working now and that they're earning higher wages than ever before, they continue without blinking the same tired nonsense about outsourcing, mac-jobs, and a jobless recovery.

Truly the moron vote.   

What scares me is that this block (of blockheads) may be pivotal.  Maybe this is the constituency that GW is reaching out to when he does some of the things he does.

[Condor51]

John Robespierre Kerry

[tdadams]

I understand what he's saying, but two things come to mind that makes me think no one's really going to listen to this explanation.

For one, it can't be explained in a sound bite. Secondly, it's just nebulous enough to sound like a 'smoke and mirrors' explanation of why job losses aren't really job losses. At least that's the way Bush haters will see it.