ARROGANCE
The left blathers own about the Bush Administration's arrogance. Here's Tina Brown, who, as far as I can tell, has never accomplished anything of consequence other than getting invited to Manhattan dinner parties. This little piece of self-important keyboard masturbation discusses attending a "media-heavy Manhattan dinner party", attended by (I'm shocked to tell you) "mostly Democrats, with a smattering of moderate Republicans." Must be "liberal" Democrats, though I'd doubt she'd recognize it.

This tripe drones on about how Republicans are monosyllabic, paternal punishers -- "cowboys" if you will, while the Democratic candidates (and Hillary), are oh, so much smarter, more refined, sophisticated. To this airhead, Kerry has an "aristocratic let-us-reason-together authority," while Bush is a "subarticulate comic book action hero." I guess this plays well among her "friends" -- I'm sure most Manhattan dinner party guests sat in the corner in grade school reading Pride and Prejudice while the rest of us were outside playing army or cops and robbers or cowboys and indians or Batman and Robin.

I'm comfortable with the Republican party being the party of men, and if that means some straight talk like "bring 'em on" or "good riddance", or a State Department that "lacks finesse" but still gets the haughty French and Germans to play nice with the rest of Europe and the United States, fine. The Democrats can govern like the Oprah After Show and worry about the feelings of the Belgian street (or whatever old Europe military powerhouse they care about).

Americans like arrogance, because we are arrogant and we have a right to be. The problem for the Tina Browns and Democrats of the world, is that Americans prefer cocky over pompous any day. George W, cocky. Al Gore, pompous. Bill Clinton, cocky. George H.W., leaned pompous. I'll be voting for the cowboy who's checked out on the F-102.