Silly America v. Serious America

Here’s an excerpt from Hugh Hewitt in the Weekly Standard:

So we are launched into a showdown between serious America and absurd America. John Kerry, again from Tuesday evening, stated bluntly that George W. Bush heads the "most inept, reckless, and ideological foreign policy in the history of this country." No matter how one evaluates recent events in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya--and they look pretty good to me--they cannot seriously be compared negatively with losing a war in Vietnam, watching Iran slide into virulent Islamism, or allowing Osama bin Laden to nest and metastasize in Kabul and its precincts. Still, millions of Americans will believe Kerry's outlandish excess not because of evidence that he has presented, but because they want to.

It’s not just that Kerry makes incoherent, unsupported, critical remarks about Bush. Kerry is singularly unserious because he offers no principled policies of his own:

Little in Mr. Kerry's political career suggests that he has ever taken such a stand and stuck with it under pressure. Perhaps he will give us some examples in the coming months.

Don’t hold your breath.