TONIGHT'S DEBATE

Until tomorrow, I'll just limit my remarks to this.

Do not ... I repeat DO NOT engage in a drinking game where you take a shot of hooch every time John Kerry says "middle class" or "I have a plan."  You don't want to risk alcohol poisoning.

LET'S REVISIT BESLAN FOR A MOMENT

Please ... tell me you remember Beslan.  It was in Beslan just about a month ago that some Islamic terrorists took hundreds of children and adults hostage in a school.  These brave warriors of Islam rigged the school with explosives.  You remember how it ended, don't you?  As school children tried to escape after the explosions began these mighty followers of Mohammed started shooting them in the back.  Shooting children in the back! 

Why bring this up again?  Hell ... it ought to be brought up every single hour of every single day right up the close of the polls on November 2nd.  These are the people George Bush wants to track down and destroy, along with the governments and enable and harbor them ..... and these are the people that John Kerry wants to track down with international cops, and those he can't convict at trial he wants to reduce to a mere nuisance level.

Today Bill Gertz is reporting in the Washington Times that US security officials are investigating an intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists  illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July.  The group is suspected of having links to Islamic terrorists -- including al Qaeda.  The group is also said to be wearing backpacks.  Reports are that these Islamists traveled to northern Mexico and crossed over the border in a part of Arizona that is difficult to patrol. 

Well now, isn't that special!  Did we really have 25 Islamic terrorists sneak into the United States illegally with backpacks.  And what do you suppose they want?  Why would they be coming here?  Jobs?  Do you think they're going to be hanging sheetrock in Sheboygan?  Laying brick in Bristol?  I doubt that those were construction tools in those backpacks. 

If, in fact, we have Chechnyan Islamists entering the United States through Mexico their intent is clear, they're here to kill.  They're here to murder innocent Americans.  Maybe they're here to kill your child.  They have experience in that field you know.

What a nuisance.

IT'S GOING TO DEPEND ON TURNOUT

I'm noticing multiple stories in the media recently about the tremendous number of people who are registering to vote for the first time.  We have 100,000 here, 100,000 there, and 100,000 over yonder ... all filling out voter registration forms at the last minute so that they can rush to the polls.

I find myself wondering about the motivation behind those stories.  Are these reporters merely informing us that a large number of Americans have suddenly developed an interest in voting?  Or are they setting the stage for massive protests and legal challenges should Bush win the election by a close margin?

My pal Jamie Dupree in Washington disagrees, but I don't think we're going to see this election decided by the morning of November 3rd.  Al Gore set the stage ... and the new norm is going to be lawyers and lawsuits.  Look for claims that tens of thousands of people who registered to vote before the deadline were denied the opportunity to vote on election day.

What fun.

By the way ... people who register to vote at the last minute are shown to have a tendency to vote against the incumbent.  This means that all of these late registrations will benefit Kerry.

It is my belief that an election that hinges on voter turnout will swing toward Democrats.  Democrats are leftists.  They're collectivists.  People who vote Democrat are more likely to adopt a group rather than an individual mentality.  Groups are easily manipulated.  When the call goes out to head to the polls people with group-obedience mentalities, like union members for instance, are far more likely to react. 

People who are predisposed to vote for Republicans, on the other hand, are more individualistic in their outlook.  Talking to them is like trying to talk to a flock of pigeons.  Getting them to the polls is like herding hamsters.

If turnout is the key, things aren't looking all that good.

MORE MASS GRAVES IN IRAQ

They've found more bodies ... more victims of Saddam Hussein.  More mass graves have been unearthed in Iraq.  There are bodies of women lying in those graves, still clutching the bodies of their infant children.  The women were shot, many of the children died when Saddam's bulldozers covered them and their dead mothers with desert sand.

This is just part of the legacy of Saddam Hussein, the man John Kerry would not have overthrown.

GEORGE BUSH KILLED CHRISTOPHER REEVE

This didn't take long...already it is being insinuated in the press and elsewhere (including the statement by John Edwards) that somehow Christopher Reeve would be alive and walking around today were it not for the mean old George Bush banning federal funding for stem cell research.  By the way, you do know that prior to George Bush being elected, there wasn't any funding for stem cell research at all? 

You should also know that there is no ban on stem cell research.  Never has been.  The only restriction is that federal funds cannot be used for new lines of embryonic stem cell research.  That's it.  This is no different than banning federal funds for say, abortion.  You can still have  one, it's just that the state isn't going to pay for it.  But in the world of the liberals, a lack of federal funds equals a ban.  And so it goes.

But perhaps we should see what Christopher Reeve himself had to say on the subject. Earlier this year, Reeve was interviewed by Reader's Digest.  He was asked where he stood on federal funding of stem cell research. "I advocate it because I think scientists should be free to pursue every possible avenue.  It appears though, at the moment, that embryonic stem cells are effective in treating acute injuries and are not able to do much about chronic injuries."  In other words, embryonic stem cell research wouldn't have helped Christopher Reeve.

But that won't stop the left from shamelessly hijacking the legacy of a man who is no longer with us.

I'VE HEARD OF CAMPAIGN PROMISES .... BUT THIS IS GETTING A BIT RIDICULOUS, ISN'T IT?

The Kerry/Edwards gang decided this week to take advantage of the emotionalism surrounding the death of Christopher Reeve.  Reeve was genuinely admired by this entire nation.  The courage and strength showed by this man impressed all.  So, how do you exploit the death of Christopher Reeve for political purposes?  You send Super Lawyer to appear before a high school audience to tell them that if John Kerry is elected people like Christopher Reeve, people in wheelchairs, will get up and walk again!

Wow!  What a deal!  "Hey Mom!  Hey Dad!  You gotta like vote for John Kerry!  You know what I'm sayin'?  You gotta like vote for Kerry because do you like remember Shawn?  Yeah!  Shawn!  He was like crippled in a car wreck last year, you know?  And if you like vote for like John Kerry Shawn will like walk again because John Kerry can like fix his like spinal chord!"

But wait!  Don't stop there!  According to Super Lawyer, not only are quadriplegics going to suddenly arise and head for Starbucks for a latte,  but grandma is going to suddenly know who you are and she won't be able to hide her own Easter Eggs!  Yes, the great and grand Kerry/Edwards team will cure Alzheimer's.  And grandpa is going to stop shaking so much because they're going to cure Parkinson's.  And you kids in the audience can put away your insulin too!  We're going to cure juvenile diabetes! 

It goes without saying that only an unadulterated idiot would believe that voting for Kerry would mean a cure for all of these diseases and afflictions.  The point here is that idiots are exactly the segment of our population that the Kerry campaign is targeting right now!  After the "global test" and "terrorism as a nuisance" comments that's about the only place they can still mine for votes.  Unfortunately there are a gracious plenty of idiots who's votes are up for grabs.

What's next?  Campaign ads by Stevie Wonder?  "Vote for John Kerry so I can see!!!!"

"Grandma! Throw away that wheelchair!  We're voting for John Kerry!"

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's yesterday's Best of the Web by James Taranto.

The FCC is fining Fox Television $1.2 million because a reality television program showed people in a (gasp!) sexual situation.  Remember, the FCC member who is driving this censorship is a Democrat .. not, as popularly believed, a Republican.

Attacks against the Bush/Cheney campaign are happening all over the country, and the media is largely ignoring it.  Image what would be happening if it were happening to The Poodle's campaign.  Michelle Malkin looks at the double standard.

Saddam's mass graves are being exhumed in preparation for his trial.  Some of the graves include women and children that had been shot in the head.  Yup...Saddam wasn't a threat....right.

In a shameless effort to influence elections in the United States, Germany is supporting The Poodle's idea of an Iraq summit and says it might reconsider sending troops. The Axis of Weasels strikes again.

ABC's political director sent out a memo in which he accused President Bush of attacking Kerry and distorting the truth.  More media bias of the highest order.

You know things must be bad when a leftist like Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton leaves town because of the threat of terrorism.  He says it came from a classified briefing...those terrorists can be such nuisances.

Former New York mayor and liberal Democrat Ed Koch explains why he will be voting for George W. Bush on November 2nd.  Might have something to do with the War on Terror being more important than prescription drugs, health care or government handouts.

Another New York Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, says we have an obligation to eliminate terrorism, not tolerate it.  If only the rest of the country felt that way.

Dick Morris says John Kerry referring to terrorism as a nuisance tells you all you need to know about the fundamental difference between the two sides.

The ABC memo shows what people have long suspected: Republicans and conservatives are not treated the same by the media when it comes to reporting.  John Podhoretz has more.

Throughout history, the people of the United States reelect war presidents over challengers.  DeWayne Wickham says President Bush has history on his side.

More media bias...Tom Brokaw asked Mikhail Gorbachev what he thought of the war in Iraq.  Of course, it made for nice Bush-bashing fare, as The Media Research Center reports.

Another example of leftist college professors teaching ideology instead of the subject at hand, brought to you by Professor Mike Adams.

Walter Williams wonders when parents are going to stop tolerating poor conditions in schools.  He says school violence happens because it's tolerated.

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