Another good piece on NationalReview.com, this one from Peter Robinson. He pulls no punches on VP Cheney....
This is hard to say, so I’d better just take a deep breath and say it: About two-thirds of Dick Cheney’s speech just wasn’t much good. His mode of delivery? Gulp, utter two sentences, then wait for some reaction from the crowd. Thirty minutes of that was about twenty too much. And the writing in, roughly, the first and last ten minutes proved flat and pedestrian. Even when the speech reached for sentiment and poetry toward the end, it did so only in hackneyed terms.
I agree with the critique of Cheney's style, although I think Cheney is an ideal VP: He doesn't detract from the President, he is mature and serves dutifully and I have every confidence he could be President if something happened to President Bush.
He was effusive in his praise for Zell Miller, and rightfully so. Zell had his rhetoric going on last night. Robinson quotes of his (and my) favorties lines from Miller...
[I]t is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.
That may be my favorite outside of his "Commander in Chief of the armed forces, armed with what?" quip about Kerry ...
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