Q & A with Mark Steyn

Enter Stage Right has an entertaining interview with journalist Mark Steyn, on the occasion of the publication of a collection of columns. A snippet:

I think [Bush is ] vulnerable. But to take advantage of that you'd need a non-inept Dem candidate. And, of the nine currently running, it's not just that three are joke candidates - Sharpton, Kucinich, Moseley-Braun - but that so many of the supposedly serious candidates are jokes - John Kerry, Bob Graham, Howard Dean.

Comments

[CharlesWT]

Bush Lite and The Sweven Dwarfs.

[Croesus]

Stretch,

Well, Graham was little more focused yesterday. Maybe his handlers worked on him. He accused the Bush administration of covering-up details about 9/11 as well. I was wondering how that play, but the press really hasn't picked ui up as far as I can tell.

[Croesus]

I thought Graham handled himself pretty well on "Face the Nation" yesterday. Less gaffes than I saw out of Bush or Gore early in tehir campaigns at least.

[Sir Real]

... still in mourning over Dean shooting himself in the foot re: the war...

[joe]

Steyn has all the hallmarks of being less than meets the eye. "The present Wahhabist Saudi Arabia with its current borders will not survive beyond 2010." Wow, that looks tough and visionary, as long as you don't notice the avalanche of evasions.

Flip is not the same thing as smart. Jonah Goldberg as Middle Eastern policy wonk.

[Croesus]

Sir Real,

I always figured Dean was running to secure a cabinet post, etc. Having seen him on "The Editors" a few times, I found him to be far too left of center for most American's to stomache (though that might change if the economy were say to take a nose dive like it did in the early 1980s).

[Stretch Cannonbury]

I saw Graham on one of the Sunday shows a couple weeks ago. He looked like a lost old man. I had this impression, prior to that, that he was serious, brainy, knowledgeable. On that show he simply looked lost - he kept referring to SARS as "scars", for example, and he started rambling about shutting down the border with Canada. Not too confidence inspiring.

It would be very entertaining for Dean to get the Dem nomination. He is just soooo mean and angry - at least he's not bland and blow-dried like most of them.