As the RNC begins...

As the Republican National Convention is about to begin, I think it's appropriate to revisit Thomas Lifson's February 3, 2004 essay in The American Thinker.

By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.

The retrospective view gives the illusion that W has goaded the Democrats, and Mainstream Media for that matter, into betting all their chips on the losing hand that is John Kerry. As we watch the wheels come off the Kerry campaign, I can't help but wonder how is it possible that Kerry did not foresee the the downside of his Vietnam campaign strategy. Before this is through even Mainstream Media is going to have to disavow Kerry or risk being fully exposed in their dishonesty and deceit.