I don’t like polls, which is why I’ve never written about them before. Even when George Bush is ahead, I don’t get excited.
Random telephone polls are the worst. While Kerry’s suspiciously high numbers make him look good, one thing big media polls can’t fake is his lackluster personality and hollow campaign rhetoric. According to an ABC News/Washington Post, Kerry has lost ground on the big issues:
The critical convention season begins with John Kerry losing momentum at just the hour he’d like to be gaining it: President Bush has clawed back on issues and attributes alike, reclaiming significant ground that Kerry had taken a month ago.Kerry has lost support against Bush in trust to handle five of six issues tested in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, including terrorism, Iraq, taxes and even health care. And Kerry’s ratings on personal attributes — honesty, strong leadership, consistency, empathy and others — have softened as well.
Big media’s own poll shows that Kerry is a dud. 
There is nothing “dead heat” about Bush and Kerry.
I have some problems with Bush. For instance, I don’t like the way he’s running the war in Iraq or his big government policies or his capitulation to the Democrats on judicial nominees. I think he should be more aggressive in his policies, especially since he has a Republican Congress. He’s not conservative enough for me. But he’s what we’ve got right now, and I wouldn’t vote for John Kerry even if he offered me water in a desert.
I don’t know who ABC is polling, but Kerry shouldn’t be as close as he is. For example, Republicans are traditionally stronger on national defense. In an age of Islamofascism, which is here to stay, who would trust a mealy-mouth liberal to protect America?
In a land of freedom and opportunity, why would anyone allow a man, let alone a rich one, to goad them into believing they can’t make it in America without the government’s help? Every day scientists are finding more and more proof that life growing in the womb is indeed human and precious, yet people calling themselves Christians will vote for a man who thinks women have a “right” to snuff out that life.
Those who want to hold on to socialistic paternalism will be voting for John Kerry. Those of us optimistic about our country and its opportunities will be voting for George Bush.
Socialism has slipped into the mainstream so subtly that we don’t realize a lot of what the government does is not what it’s designed to do. It’s function is not to guarantee low-cost health care and prescription drugs or college tuition. It’s role is to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic and otherwise stay out of our affairs.
Speaking of optimism, ABC grudging admits: “[M]ore see Bush as an optimist (72 percent) than Kerry (55 percent). That makes it a tricky path for Kerry — delineating the nation’s problems, economic and otherwise, without sounding more negative than the public itself.”
Tricky is the right word. For Kerry to win this election, more American soldiers have to be killed and the economy has to tank. More government schools have to fail and Bush hatred has to grow more caustic. That’s the entire Democratic platform.
Liberals must really think people are stupid at heart. If anyone believes that John Kerry’s concerned about their well-being is crazy. Liberals hate being called liberals for a reason. It’s an epithet. Why? Because they know that mainstream America doesn’t share their pessimistic views, and extremism doesn’t win elections.
I am confident George Bush will win in November. Democrats can soft-pedal it in Boston this week all they want. Their efforts will be fruitless.
