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Not a Bad First Day
Rich Galen Tuesday August 31, 2004
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From New York City
The Republican National Convention
Here's how the first day of the Republican National Convention went:
Shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning former Congressman and former Mayor of New York Ed Koch endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election.
Within about 20 minutes of that, the current Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, had endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election.
About 12 hours later, former POW and current Senator John McCain endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election.
About 20 minutes after that, former federal prosecutor and former Mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani endorsed George W. Bush for re-election.
Not a bad first day.
Keep in mind that none of these men is known as a paragon of modern Conservatism.
Ed Koch, in fact, is a Democrat. Michael Bloomberg is not a lifelong Republican. Senator McCain is not the least bit shy of favoring a course which differs from Administration policy. Mayor Giuliani was elected and re-elected Mayor of New York. Not something which is possible for a staunch Conservative.
Senator McCain said of President Bush, "I salute his determination to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He has not wavered. He has not flinched from the hard choices. He will not yield. And neither will we."
Mayor Giuliani said, that President Bush "sees world terrorism for the evil that it is. John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision."
Not a bad first day.
In between the speeches, a steady stream of polls were being released from Florida, and Iowa, and Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio. In every one of those polls, the President's position was better than it had been in previous polls. In every one of them, the President is at least tied with Mr. Kerry; and in most of them he is slightly ahead.
By mid-afternoon, reporters working at the GOP convention were becoming hard-pressed to ignore this steady drip-drip-drip of good news for the Bush campaign to the point that it became the buzz running through the workspace on the other side of 8th Avenue from Madison Square Garden.
Although Sunday was marked by 17 Billion people marching through Manhattan in opposition to the policies of President Bush, yesterday I saw only the usual combination of tourists with too-big cameras and too-small children, delegates and reporters in for the convention, and regular New Yorkers - not demonstrators - looking angry about everybody and everything.
The best part of my day, however, was at the ice cream store across the street from my hotel where I had stopped in to buy a root beer float with chocolate ice cream. Just as I was finishing my order a fireman walked in and stood behind me.
"And whatever he's having," I said. "Put them both together." He was getting a cup of ice cream for himself and one for a buddy.
"You can't buy my mine," he said. "It would be inappropriate."
"Why? Would it mean you'd be more likely to run into a burning building owned by a Republican and less likely if it were owned by a Democrat?"
"Nah," he said. "We run into all of 'em." And thanked me for the ice cream.
Not a bad first day.
On the Secret Decoder Ring Page today: More Mullfotos from the Big Apple.
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