Joseph Sobran, in commenting on the undecided voters in this year's election:
Meanwhile, Florida is being battered with hurricanes....and Bush has ordered $2 billion in Federal aid as well as mental health counselors sent to the state. Mental health counselors for hurricane victims! The Federal Government certainly thinks of everything.But Kerry isn’t making an issue of this, because he and Bush agree on one great principle: There should be no limits on the functions (or powers) of government.
Oh, here and there you’ll find some perfunctory dissent on this principle, but only in odd and ineffectual places, such as the U.S. Constitution and the Republican platform. Nobody reads them anyway. Hurricanes are a great opportunity for politicians to make compassionate gestures, and Bush, taking time out from the War on Terrorism, has personally visited Florida to pass out bottled water. A less concerned president might have delegated this task to his secretary of the interior.
Someone who’s out of touch with American politics — Thomas Jefferson, say — might think this campaign should revolve around the question of whether government should keep expanding. But Bush and Kerry are like a pair of obese men quarreling about which candy bar tastes best. Their minds are elsewhere. The questions that obsessed the Republic’s Founders don’t interest them at all.
"A pair of obese men quarreling about which candy bar tastes best." My, yes, I do believe he's got it.
Posted by Craig Ceely at September 24, 2004 07:31 AM