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17 September 2004
Foreign ex-leaders for Bush
'Why I’m backing Bush', explains jettisoned Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith in the Spectator1:
While the majority of Europeans and the entire Labour party minus Downing Street are rooting for Kerry, what is more disquieting is the support of some British Conservative MPs ['Quietists, Europhiles and Arabists', in IDS's diagnosis] for the Democrat candidate.... Quietists, Europhiles and Arabists share with the social democratic Left a particular mindset: they are all sophisticates.Ah, that's it of course. When it comes to the crunch, privately-educated sherry-sippers will back the brahmin every time over millworkers' sons like George Bush. Doubtless it is his gritty Gorbals childhood that permits Duncan Smith (Sandhurst, Scots Guards) to see the truth.
Poor Bush. His slim lead in the polls appears to be evaporating, and now this endorsement from a Tory leader whose failure was even more spectacular than the previous one's. One trusts the warbloggers will soon break the story that the endorsement was an obvious forgery.
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Posted by Mrs Tilton at 03:13 PM | Permalink
Comments
There was an article in Courrier International the other week on the (still tacit) preference of Blair for Kerry, which remarked that his advisors had pointed out to him that "even the Conservatives detest Bush."
IDS is perhaps the most consummate not-getter of memoes ever to have lead one of the big two parties (maybe Michael Foot could compete) and even I (no fan of the Tories) was glad to see the back of him - a one-party state isn't a symptom of a healthy democracy.
Posted by: des von bladet at 17 Sep 2004 18:24:26
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I wouldn't be so sure about the competitiveness of Kerry at this point. As glaring as Bush's deficiencies may be, Kerry's done a disappointingly poor job of capitalizing on them to date, while both the Iowa Electronic Markets and Tradesports are predicting the same thing as all the polls that give Bush a commanding lead.
Anything can happen between now and election day, and Bush may yet fail to live up to even the intentionally lowered expectations his campaign staff have set for him in the Presidential debates, but barring a major lapse on his part I'd say that it's the Current Foreign Leaders for Kerry who ought to be looking to a cold shoulder come January 2005.
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Posted by: Abiola Lapite at 18 Sep 2004 18:32:57
