It’s A GRAND SLAM!
By Debbie Daniel (09/02/04)
Giuliani knocked it out of the park! It’s going . . . going . . . GONE! That ball was out of there!
I don’t know when I’ve been so exhilarated. I needed to sit down and be quiet for at least five minutes just to catch my breath.
If Rudy Giuliani didn’t get the blood rushing through your veins . . . you better check into the local morgue. As I sat and watched the Republican National Convention, I was rocking so fast in my chair, I didn’t think I could get the rocker to stop when the speech ended. I was like a race horse needing one more lap around the track to slow my heart rate down, or I would surely die.
I know I saw the spirit of Winston Churchill move across that great auditorium at Madison Square Gardens waving his “V” signs for Victory. And right behind him was the great Ronald Reagan with his signature “thumbs up” . . . Oh, what a presence of greatness emanating to every ear that could hear and to every eye that could see the former Mayor of New York hit a homerun for George W. Bush!
I just never knew he could hit so well. His finesse, his grace, his tone, his charm, his laughter, his self-deprecation . . . he brought it all home.
John McCain had already loaded the bases with his comment about the “disingenuous” movie producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 – who just happened to be sitting in the audience. When the cameras panned over to Michael Moore, I thought the preponderance of “boos” was so appropriate for a man who relished in the fact that he was there to do a column for USA Today, and loved even more that he could crash the party for President Bush.
It was wonderful to watch the “Great White Shark” – Michael Moore – have his “in your face” presence at the Republican National Convention spurned for everyone to see. Oh, what a feeling! It did my heart good!
As I listened to several tributes from loved ones who lost friends and family in the September 11th attacks, I was reminded that Republicans were warned not to try and wrap themselves in the memory of 9/11.
They’ve also been instructed not to go to ground zero . . . don’t even try to make a connection with 9/11.
I guess Democrats are the only victims of the worst attack on American soil? It happened to them, not anyone else.
As Rudy Giuliani said in an interview: “It’s like Abraham Lincoln running for a second term and told not to mention the Civil War.”
With all the pandemonium going on outside the arena, I would encourage delegates to stay close. You might get killed if you dare to make your way to lower Manhattan.
If you want to see the character of the candidate, look at the character of the protesters. Those are the 1971 John Kerrys out there on the streets of New York – that’s who he was and that’s who he still is.
We’re already hearing of protesters punching people in the face and accosting them with foul language. Is it any wonder we call them the party of DONKEYS?
They want us to know that New York is their territory. They asked to have their convention there, but when they were not given total exclusivity, they took their marbles and went to Boston. Such adolescence!
And now they threaten conservatives on every street corner, on busses, in hotel lobbies, or any public restaurant where they can dampen the spirits of a party who’s loyal to their candidate, George W. Bush.
Well, the one thing that makes me proud to be a conservative is that we don’t have to march up and down the streets screaming obscenities, taking off our clothes, physically assaulting people, or barricading hotel entrances to make our voices heard.
That’s what the ballot box is for. We know first hand from the last national election that they didn’t know what a ballot box was; they certainly didn’t know how to use one. Republicans don’t leave “chads” hanging . . . they are very clear about their choice.
Isn’t it strange that the protesters were put in cages at the Democrat Convention, but the protesters at this Republican Convention are allowed to spit, taunt, jeer, punch people in the head, and given the freedom to stand stark naked like idiots in the middle of Manhattan to show how peaceful they are? What a stark contrast!
And what a message of who gets treated how! A Democratic leader said the President needs to make the Swift Boat veterans sit down and shut up. While he’s at it, should he put cages up in New York City, too?
If you think he can do one, he can surely do the other.
Doesn’t anyone see this picture? John Kerry can stifle the free speech at his convention, but George Bush lets you march right up to the front door.
You might want to re-think whose looking out for your freedom.
But that’s okay . . . we love to let them be who they are. They show us so much, and we don’t have to say a word.
And when you have “Mr. Yankee Baseball” hitting grand slam homeruns for the “Cowboy from Crawford,” doesn’t it make your heart sing?
I hear music in the air!
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