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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Later, on Fox, Bill will crush a beercan on his forehead and belch the alphabet...
William Kristol goes all butch in his latest, using Saturday's Kansas State/Oklahoma game as a reference point for Dean/Bush brouhaha. Except he doesn't use the word "brouhaha" because he not that butch, I mean he still calls himself "William" instead of Bill or Billy or Big Bill or the Billenator. You get the idea:
Going into the final day of the college football regular season, Oklahoma was undefeated and ranked No. 1. The Sooners had the best defense in the nation, had outscored their opponents by an average of 35 points and had a nine-game winning streak against ranked teams. "OU: Among best ever?" USA Today asked (rhetorically) on Friday. Kansas State, by contrast, had three losses, and had never won a Big 12 championship. Oklahoma was favored by two touchdowns. Kansas State, of course, won, 35-7.
For the next 11 months, Republicans, conservatives and Bush campaign operatives should, on arising, immediately following their morning prayers, repeat that score aloud 10 times. Underdogs do sometimes win. Howard Dean could beat President Bush. Saying you're not overconfident (as the OU players repeatedly did) is no substitute for really not being overconfident. And if Bush loses next November, it's over. There's no BCS computer to give him another shot at the national championship in the Sugar Bowl.
(Insert your own snarky comment about Fat Tony and the Supremes here)
Then Kristol who, by the way, is Queen of the Neocons, takes some shots at President Leader Guy's subordinates whom he thinks are undercutting the Leader Guy's Steely Resolve:
But what about Sept. 11? Surely Bush's response to the attacks, and his overall leadership in the war on terrorism, remain compelling reasons to keep him in office. They do for me. But while Bush is committed to victory in that war, his secretary of state seems committed to diplomatic compromise, and his secretary of defense to an odd kind of muscle-flexing-disengagement. And when Bush's chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., said on Sunday with regard to Iraq, "We're going to get out of there as quickly as we can, but not before we finish the mission at hand," one wonders: Wouldn't Howard Dean agree with that formulation? Indeed, doesn't the first half of that sentence suggest that even the most senior of Bush's subordinates haven't really internalized the president's view of the fundamental character of this war?
You see, it's not Bush. It's his team that letting him down. They're not blocking and protecting him in the pocket. They're not opening holes. They're not holding on to his passes. In Kristol's mind, Bush is Archie Manning; the great quarterback who never played on a good team. But he's not.
George Bush is Ryan Leaf.
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