The dump Kerry chatter
Hugh Hewitt is already asking if the Dems will exercise the Torricelli option and dump Kerry.
That seems pretty presumptious when you consider that Kerry is closer to Bush in the polls than Al Gore was at this point. He is a candidate with flaws but he is still within the margin of error in national polls.
The reason the Democrats have such a flawed candidate is because they chose to make their primaries about George Bush rather than who would make the best President. Kerry seemed to be the best at bashing Bush while still being "electable." But, Kerry was never challenged on electibility in the primaries the way Howard Dean was.
One of the things that hurt Dean, was that he at least had a coherent message. But coherent messages can become scary things for Democrats who know they cannot be elected on what they really think, so Kerry's obfuscations seemed attractive at the time. They just were never tested, until the Bush team decided it was time to "bring it on." Now the Dems do not want them to bring it on.
I think Kerry probably threw his ribbons over the fence insead of his medals. He clearly wanted to convince the world that he had thrown his medals over the fence when he gave the television interview in 71. That story was inconvient in the 80's when he ran for the Senate so he told the story differently to get elected. That is what he will do, because all of the street theatrics were and are about his core belief--electability. In fact that became the cornersone of his primary election victories.
Hugh Hewitt is already asking if the Dems will exercise the Torricelli option and dump Kerry.
That seems pretty presumptious when you consider that Kerry is closer to Bush in the polls than Al Gore was at this point. He is a candidate with flaws but he is still within the margin of error in national polls.
The reason the Democrats have such a flawed candidate is because they chose to make their primaries about George Bush rather than who would make the best President. Kerry seemed to be the best at bashing Bush while still being "electable." But, Kerry was never challenged on electibility in the primaries the way Howard Dean was.
One of the things that hurt Dean, was that he at least had a coherent message. But coherent messages can become scary things for Democrats who know they cannot be elected on what they really think, so Kerry's obfuscations seemed attractive at the time. They just were never tested, until the Bush team decided it was time to "bring it on." Now the Dems do not want them to bring it on.
I think Kerry probably threw his ribbons over the fence insead of his medals. He clearly wanted to convince the world that he had thrown his medals over the fence when he gave the television interview in 71. That story was inconvient in the 80's when he ran for the Senate so he told the story differently to get elected. That is what he will do, because all of the street theatrics were and are about his core belief--electability. In fact that became the cornersone of his primary election victories.
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