Accepting the Nomination

[Bill O'Neill]

> And just what is different about the Republican convention?
> Does it become anything more
> than a big political rally, just because Bush says the words
> "I accept your nomination"?\

This supports that neither event's cache can hold a candle of those of yore.
Rallying the party, energizing the machines, that is pretty much left up to
people far better heeled than the wide-eyed who would converge among the
placards.  Kerry's holding-off seems too glaring in its strategerie....

Bill O'Neill