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Remember Me to Herald Square

By Paul Beston on 9.3.04 @ 12:55AM

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What a wonderful opposition for Americans to choose from: gangs of Leninist thugs versus the men and women of the NYPD. And then there is the contrast between the parties. Besides all the obvious ones, there is this: One party had the guts to take its message into hostile territory -- really hostile, trust me -- and the other was content to stay in friendly confines and preach to the converted.

I'LL BE THE FIRST to say I hope New York doesn't do this again anytime soon. But I'm sure glad we did it this once, and at this time in our history.

Imagine if the final nail in the Hate Bush crowd's coffin is driven in from Herald Square? That is an irony even the tone-deaf legions of the Left wouldn't be able to miss.

If President Bush is re-elected, we may remember the New York convention as the lever that turned the tide, or to borrow a phrase from 1971, "helped it in the turning." It's safe to say that New York won't soon forget the week that the Republicans came to town. But it may be that America won't forget it, either.

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