Radio talk show host, blogger, and author Hugh Hewitt was interviewed by National Review Online following the Democratic Convention.
NRO: What does Bush need to do to win this election?Posted by Alan at August 1, 2004 10:08 AMHEWITT: Speak clearly and repeatedly about the central issue of the campaign: Which candidate will better lead the nation in the war on terror? It is a war — not as Kerry's senior foreign-policy adviser Rand Beers said yesterday, a struggle — and it will go on for a very long time. On any given day, the U.S. might find itself devastated by an attack the Dems seem to spend a lot of time trying not to imagine. The views of Bush and Kerry are so radically different on how the war ought to be conducted — indeed, on the question of whether it really is a war or a law enforcement matter — that the campaign needs to remind Americans again and again that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Islamists would gladly kill as many Americans as come within range of their knife, gun, bomb or WMD.
NRO:What's the most interesting conversation you've had this week?
HEWITT: Gray Davis sat down and talked on air with me about Michael Moore. He likes Michael Moore, respects him, and thinks there is a lot of truth in F911.
It is astonishing to me that Democrat after Democrat, many of whom have held senior positions — from Presidents Carter and Clinton, to Davis and of course Senator Kerry — have embraced this bald-faced liar whose propaganda is virulently anti-American and whose paranoia and hate are so palpable. I have been saying all week that Moore is to this convention what Buchanan was to the GOP gathering of 1992, but that really understates the damage he is doing to a once great party. The Democrats have opened the door to a radical of breath-taking duplicity. It will not be rid of him for a very long time, and until it is, it will not be qualified to lead the country.
NRO:Anyone's reception surprise you?
HEWITT: Moore's. He's a nut. Obviously and repeatedly demonstrated to be a liar. And he's John Kerry's unofficial running mate. When Kerry took his shot at the Saudi Royal family, he blew a kiss to Moore.