CONVENTION BOUNCE?  WE DON'T NEED NO CONVENTION BOUNCE

Spin Alert!  Really, you have to give the Kerry campaign its props for this one.  The appeasement gang is telling us that it doesn't matter that The Poodle didn't get a bounce in the polls from the convention.  The story now is that Kerry didn't need a convention bounce because, after all, people hate George Bush so much.  All the Kerry people have to do is present him as a viable alternative to George Bush.  In other words, the voters don't need a reason TO elect him, they just have to convince the voters that there's really no good reason NOT to elect him.  If he fits the definition of "anybody" for the "anybody but Bush" crowd, he's in.

Say ... when do you think the Kerry campaign is going to start highlighting all of the wonderful examples of leadership he provided during his twenty years in the Senate?  We all know he served in Vietnam.  We all know that he was an anti-war protester.  We all know that he thinks his wife is just about the most sensational woman in the world.  But what about his service in the Senate?  We know that he missed 29 of 38 meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee while he was a member, but what did he do at the 9 meetings he actually attended?  Come on now!  Here's a man who is telling us what a great leader he would be in the fight against terrorism.  Can't he step forward and give us some evidence of that incredible leadership from the few intelligence committee he actually took the time to attend?

But then ... I guess I have to remember the "anyone but Bush" flavor of this election.  Kerry doesn't have to have leadership ability.  He doesn't have to actually have a viable plan to fight Islamic terrorism and to keep us safe in our own homes and offices.  He doesn't have to have a Senate record he wants to brag about.  He just has to not be George Bush.

THE POODLE'S BAND-AID PURPLE HEARTS

He wanted to make his service in Vietnam an issue, so here we go.  I'm perfectly willing to help Mr. Kerry in that regard. 

A group of swift boat veterans is releasing a book August 15 with some pretty damning allegations.  Among them: two of The Poodle's three Purple Hearts resulted from self-inflicted wounds and had nothing to do with enemy fire and all three Purple Hearts were for minor injuries that required no hospitalization.  They're also claiming The Poodle filed a false report involving the death of a father and a child in a fishing boat.  Another allegation is that sKerry entered an abandoned village and burned it down with his lighter after slaughtering all the domestic animals.  The other swift boat veterans thought he was so reckless, he had to go.  Doesn't quite match his image as a courageous war hero, does it?

The Poodle has been bragging for a year about his four months in Vietnam, and it's fair game.  The Democrats and the media will no doubt whine and cry about these 'dirty tricks,' but Kerry put himself out there.  He's running on his Vietnam war experience front and center, and people have a right to ask questions.  If all of his awards were the result of minor injuries or outright fabrications, shouldn't that figure into voter's decisions?  If he'll lie to receive a Purple Heart, what else would he lie about? 

Imagine if these type of allegations were leveled against George Bush?  We would never hear the end of it.  As it is now, you can bet the media will ignore this, the Kerry campaign will call it an outright fabrication and people will accuse George Bush of masterminding the whole thing.

We know for a fact that Lieutenant Kerry repeatedly lied about his fellow soldiers in Vietnam when he came back.  By what standard to you believe him now?

Sidenote:  Remember, I never served in the military.  Tomorrow I'll share with you some of the emails I get from Kerry supporters that my lack of military service means that I have no right to comment on Kerry's legal service.  It seems that this is the best the Kerry Krowd can do in countering the viable questions about his service in Vietnam. 

TERROR ATTACK IN EARLY SEPTEMBER?

According to Newsday, an Al-Qaeda source says terrorists are planning an attack 60 days before the November 2 election.  This falls right in line with their strategy in Spain, where they were able to attack the country right before the election and install a pro-terrorist, Socialist government.  That was Al Qaeda's first election victory in the Western world.  Pretty heady stuff!  So what makes you think they won't try it here?

I'll admit to being just a wee-bit troubled here.  The Republican convention will be underway in New York City exactly 60 days before the election.  I'll be there.  Should be interesting.

Do the American people have the globes to withstand another terror attack?  Seriously, folks --- if Al Qaeda attacks again, and manages to kill a few thousand more Americans on their own soil, will American voters mimic the Spaniards?  Take a look at the polls.  A large percentage of Americans, measured by some to be over 50%, have lost their taste for the war on terror.  Will they see appeasement as the way to go if Al Qaeda attacks again?   Will we give in like the surrender monkeys in Spain, or will we stand fast and keep the man in office that has sworn to hunt down every one of those vicious bastards and kill them?

I love this country, and I love my fellow Americans.  I do believe, however, that far too many Americans are not only willing ... they're eager to trade freedom for security.  Politicians know that the "security" word is a big winner at the polls.  In this day and age no politician is going to score hugely with the voters by saying something like "If elected, I will remove the government from your retirement planning.  You will be free to take your own money and invest it for your retirement as you see fit.  The decisions will be yours, and the consequences of those decisions will be yours also."  Yeah ... right.  That's a winning campaign theme.  Instead, politicians gather votes by telling you that the other side is going to mess with your social security. 

For months now the conventional wisdom has been that a terrorist attack against this country prior to the election would send voters to George Bush.  I'm not sure that this conventional wisdom is valid.  Kerry has shown an ability to market the appeasement strategy quite well.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed.

HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT YOUR HERO MICHAEL MOORE NOW?

Strange silence from the Bush haters lately.  Their hero Michael Moore has been caught in yet another lie.  You've heard about this one, haven't you?  Some reader sent a letter to the editor of The Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington, IL.  That letter was printed with a small headline above it highlighting the letter-writers opinion that "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election."   Well, Michael Moore wanted to use this "headline" in his movie.  So, he took the "Gore wins recount" header off that one letter in the letters-to-the-editor section and pastes it onto the front page of the newspaper as a banner headline.  The "Gore wins recount" line magically goes from a letter-writer's opinion to the newspapers front page headline.  In other words --- Moore lied.  He created a deliberate, intentional lie and presented it to his viewers as the truth.  Perhaps he felt that altering the content of an oddly-named newspaper in a smaller town would go unnoticed.  It didn't.  This isn't new stuff for Moore.  He did it with "Bowling for Columbine" also. But none of this matters to the left.  Moore doesn't like George Bush.  Moore bashes America, both at home and abroad.  By default that makes Moore a hero.  Truth doesn't matter when you're fighting for the socialist, big-government, pro-appeasement cause.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

So much for the Democrats making hay over the Al Qaeda intelligence being four years old.  Tom Ridge says the intelligence was recently updated.

Illinois Republicans are considering running Alan Keyes against Barack Obama in the Senate race up there.  Now that would be something.  One black conservative against one black liberal.  No doubt the white liberals and the media are gearing up their 'Uncle Tom' allegations.  Problem?  Keys lives in Maryland.

Here's a good one....did you know it's George Bush's fault that there was no lesbian kiss in 'Catwoman?'  Wouldn't have mattered anyway...looks like the movie was terrible.

The Poodle got no bounce out of the convention.....and Dick Morris knows why.

Why did Bush get a bounce out of the Democratic National Convention and not The Poodle?  Susan Page has some theories.

So how about The Souffle's mysterious foreign leaders?  Tod Lindberg names names.

As predicted, the media is covering for The Poodle's terrible poll numbers after the convention.  The Media Research Center has more.

White liberals, including The Poodle,  love to be condescending and demeaning toward blacks.  Walter Williams takes them all to school.

Following his slimeing of the podium at the DNC, Al Sharpton's image has been rehabilitated into some sort of elder statesman.  Jonah Goldberg says Sharpton hasn't changed a bit.

Michelle Malkin has not been invited back to a gathering of media types that George Bush and The Poodle will be speaking to.  In response, she presents The Malkin Media Diversity Test.  Good stuff.

People are being let out of the Finnish Army because of Internet Addiction.

Girls held in killing of teen's grandparents.

Priest and nun convicted after "sex act" in car.

Slogan contest for Topeka to promote the city's image gives some interesting entries.

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