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...Democrats lavished a good deal of condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...
...going home. All of us except George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who are ready to take off on their first campaign barnstorm as the official candidates of the Republican party. After five days of speeches, parties and fund-raising, the 2000 GOP convention is over, and spirits are high here in Philadelphia. Bush's rousing and, by all accounts, presidential acceptance speech on Thursday night brought down the house; the delegates are charged up and ready to take the message home. Let the proselytizing begin...
...what do we walk away with? To recap: The Bush-Cheney ticket represents hope, a new beginning, honor, dignity and... did we mention dignity? This is the moment the GOP has been waiting eight years for, and Bush is ready to for the fight; he's ready to take on Clinton-Gore, ready for the exhausting tour of duty that is a presidential campaign. Is he ready for the tough questions? That remains to be seen...
...believe what's been repeated this week in Philadelphia, today's GOP is a different party than it was in 1992, or in 1996. This is now the party of inclusion, of education, of diversity. In their minds, anyway, the Republicans today are a party that's confronted its demons, exorcised them, and is now prepared to cleanse the nation of the various ghosts we've accumulated during the Clinton-Gore administration...
This was definitely Republican food, a far cry from the blue-collar cheese steaks this city is famous for. That fact was not lost on then-mayor Ed Rendell, who, when courting convention planners from both parties, took GOP bigwigs to Le Bec-Fin and dragged Dems to a hoagie joint. The proof, to use that worn gastronomical phrase, is in the pudding: The Dems took their party to the left coast, while Republicans cheerfully descended on this most Democratic of cities. Was it the food? What else...