January 25, 2004
My Detroit News Blogger Audition
Instapundit has posted that The Detroit News is auditioning political bloggers. Here is my entry:
Al Gored by Dean endorsement (headline).
Al Gore, true to form, has once again demonstrated he lives his life by reading polls and seizing opportunities rather than holding convictions and acting on them.
The most important quality of leadership that a leader must possess is the ability to lead. It is not intelligence. It is not salesmanship. It is not bravery. It is not getting it right all the time. It is not arrogance. And it is most definitely not attempting to always please the majority via the use of polls.
George W. Bush leads. Even though the Democrats want us to believe that GWB is nothing more than a simian Shakespearean typewriter jockey, he is leading the United States very effectively. As an aside, I see a difference between to where a leader leads, and how well a leader leads. Clearly, there are many (most?) Bush-haters who cannot and will not acknowledge this difference. Whatever Bush does is horrible and satanic, period (fingers in ears - lalalalalalalalala).
Al Gore, on the other hand, does not lead. Al Gore cannot lead. God bless America that Al Gore is not our president. His endorsement of Dean several weeks ago smacked of opportunism (not to mention the disfavor of disloyalty shown to Joe Lieberman). Dean, then and now, seemed only one temple throb away from sprouting neck bolts and zombie walking. Of course, because Gore is guided by the bloody chum of opportunity and not by a coherent set of guiding principles, he was blind to the Frankenstein freak show.
By endorsing Dean Gore certainly has squandered a significant amount of political capital. Is he terminal for 2008? I just don't know. Time has a way of making smart people stupid again. My guess (my hope?)? He'll be borrowing Gephardt's 2004 post-caucus Iowa speech in 2008.
Posted by nopundit at January 25, 2004 07:23 PM