You got it.
Is anyone else as astounded as I am that the Rats nominated this guy? Maybe it speaks to their dearth of leadership, but you could send a dog with a note to deliver the message that Hanoi John was a traitor and conspirator with our nation's enemies.
Not a good message during wartime.
I'm not. They became so afraid that Dean would win the nomination that they made a snap decision. What other reasonable choices did they have? All the intensity was from the anti-war left. Lieberman supports our actions in Iraq.
Kerry's anti-war record was good enough to please that crowd, and his tendency to be on both sides of every issue, at least before casting a vote (and sometimes after) might confuse enough moderates to vote for him.
Remember, he basically won the nomination during all the commotion over Farenheit 9/11. The Rats thought that movie would destroy Bush.
"Is anyone else as astounded as I am that the Rats nominated this guy? "
I have wondered the same thing myself.
They were SO desparate to win, that they thought a "war hero" would disarm the patriotic right, who would prefer Kerry to a non-active-duty-serving Bush??
Sounds like Kerry was using this strategy even during his "stellar" 4 month service -- packing his resume as best as he could. . .
Kerry is really, really, really out of touch -- esp. with veterans and patriotic America. He and the Dims thought we would SWALLOW his line ?? his callowness is NOT heroism, not by any stretch of the imagination . . .
Apparently this strategy has worked for him in the past -- silencing critics of his "war record." BUT he failed to realize that the USA is not the same as Massachusetts.
There is no sympathetic backlash for Kerry among middle America (where most of the veterans come from) resulting from his playing up his veteran status. His response was a FLOP big time; because he doesn't even realize what motivates REAL veterans . . . not accolades and medals by any possible means -- but SERVICE.
He is SELF-serving -- like Clinton. He can't even imagine the motivation of SELFLESS service. So he mistakenly thinks veterans are like himself. He is SO wrong because he does not possess the moral compass to register such concepts. He is blind to them. No wonder he miscalculated so badly, and the Dims along with him . . .