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[Anker-Klanker]

The following link makes for a real interesting read:

http://ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=744

After you've read this I think you will have some idea how much of the real John Kerry we saw in the campaign. This suggests that sKerry was merely an actor playing a role. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

[joe_madeup]

I usually won't read Arianna (she and Teraaaayza are too much alike for me), but this column was a hoot - in ways she didn't intend.

Arianna writes: [at a breakfast with reporters, James Carville and Bob Shrum] blamed the public for not responding to John Kerry’s message on the economy, and they blamed the news media for distracting voters from this critical message with headlines from that pesky war in Iraq. “News events were driving this,” said Shrum. “The economy was not driving the news coverage.”

Me: Notice how Shrum is now 0 for 8 (in Presidential elections), and still blaming it all on others.

Arianna writes: “When Carville and Greenberg tell reporters that the campaign was missing a defining narrative,” Thorne [Kerry's pal and ex-brother-in-law] told me this week, “they forget that they were the ones insisting we had to keep beating the domestic-issues drum. So we never defended John's character and focused on his leadership..."

Me: Leadership of what? In 20 years in the Senate, what has Kerry done? LOL

Arianna writes: Cam Kerry agrees. “There is a very strong John Kerry narrative that is about leadership, character and trust. But it was never made central to the campaign,” he said. “Yet, at the end of the day, a presidential campaign — and this post-9/11 campaign in particular — is about these underlying attributes rather than about a laundry list of issues."

Me: LOL.....ROTFL..... Think about what Kerry's brother (Cameron) is really saying. He's saying, THEY DIDN'T FOCUS ON VIETNAM ENOUGH!! They didn't follow Kerry's usual plan, of branding Kerry as War Hero and everybody else as Chicken Hawk. Well, Guess Who forced them off that plan? And what a dope Cam is! If Kerry hadn't dropped his Vietnam shtick in September, he would have lost by 20 points (as the "Swift Vet controversy" continued to rage...Kerry's own emphasis on Vietnam is what put the juice in it).

Arianna writes: Behind the scenes, former President Clinton also kept up the drumbeat, telling Kerry in private conversations right to the end that he should focus on the economy rather than Iraq or the war on terror, and that he should come out in favor of all 11 state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage...

Me: I think Clinton was right here....but too late. Kerry could have gotten to 51% on domestic issues if, and only if, he had made them his Big Theme from the beginning (no detours into Vietnam or Iraq with each new advisor). As for gay marriage....personally I support it, But, Kerry always claimed to be against it ("the President and I have the exact same position")......so, why wouldn't Kerry do what Clinton said? Kerry lost because he was, and always has been, a phony.

[Guest]

[MSeeger]

Maybe it's just me, but after reading that article, I get the feeling that the author feels that Kerry should have gone anti-war all the way on this and made it a referendum on Iraq. My impression is that she thinks that would have given Kerry the victory.

My question is this: If Kerry had come along as an anti-war candidate in the first place and tried to make this a referendum on Iraq...would he have won the election? My instinct says no.

It's not that everyone in this country agrees we should be there. It's just that I have a feeling most people feel like I do: I don't like it, but we're there, now let's do the job so we can go home with honor, and not cut and run.

What do you all think? Is my perception skewed or not?

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

[sleeplessinseattle]

[Digger]

I'm with MSEEGER on this one. I've always said that Kerry should have gone to Hollywood instead of Washington. But unfortunately the only roles he could get would be in "B" horror flicks playing a Dracula wannabe. That's why he went to Washington, there are fewer good directors there and no real critics of any merit. Kerry is just a really bad actor, that's why he won't get any encores.
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Hey swifty, I'm with you, Just watch you don't get "Kerry'd away in the propwash

Sgt. Maj. Seamus D.D. MacNemi R.M.C. Ret.

[firstsgtmike]

Maria,

My answer is "Skewed".

Check Kerry's votes, his position on the IntelligienceCommittee.

"I voted for, before I voted against."

The Hillary Democrats hung him out to dry.

I challenged Kerry supporters to define his program, and why anyone should vote for him.

The only answer I received was that he was not Bush. (I already knew that. I"ve seen photos of both of them.)

I looked at the numbers. If Bush gives Kerry every state he won by +/- 3% of the vote, in exchange for every state Kerry won by +/- 3% of the vote, Bush will pick up 20 more EVs.

And the motorboat is starting up again; but, but, but, but, but, but, but.
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Mike Farrell
First Sergeant of Marines
Retired and Reincarnated in the Philippines

[lrb111]

Of course it was acting. I predicted a few months ago that kerry would be positioned somewheere to the right of GWB come Nov 2nd. His final days speeches were calling for more troops in Iraq, more troops in Afghanistan, more money for those ideas...
He was a catholic, a choir boy, a life long catholic, understudy to the pope, yada, yada, yada...

There is only one kerry political rule, that one needs to remember about it him. It is the heart of the communist approach.
""The end justifies the means."" he can, and will say anything, according to his political faith.
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said Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe. "It is inexcusable to mock service and sacrifice."
well, when even the DNC can see it,,,,, then kerry is toast.

[DaveL]

[rparrott21]

[I B Squidly]

DaveL:

That last paragraph of yours (is that really one sentence?) should be on every op ed page in the country.

Then it should be in every class where they still study grammar for sentence diagraming and the proper use of the semi-colon.