[johnny7]

Gore and Kerry lost because the Republicans were better mythmakers.

Bush was no myth... he had a record as president and he ran on it. Neither Gore nor Kerry had anything close to Bush's experience. Kerry was only known for anti-military and pro-abortion legislation. He WAS the wrong candidate at the wrong time!

[MisterRepublican]

Blah,blah,blah....Bush bad.....blah,blah,blah

[xzins]

And, they diverted attention from Bush’s greatest vulnerability, the failure of his Administration to respond to the Al Qaeda threat prior to 9/11.

Every now and then in these kind of articles, a single line jumps out and offers irrefutable proof that the author is so partisan that the remainder of the article can be ignored.

The above is just such a line.

Bush was president barely 8 months at the time of 9/11, and the burden of responsibility in REALITY had been on the previous administration.

It's like taking a first year pro football head coach and blaming him at the beginning of the season for the players on the team that he has to work with.

[myvoice]

Reading this crap makes me want to adopt a cat, just so I can line the bottom of the litter box with this article.

[carlr]

his international policies have fueled the flames of terroism

More of the same inane horses##t.Blame us instead of the murderers,oh if we would just be nice to them they would`nt hate us so.

[Vigilanteman]

Rather than talk about values, and Kerryfs own positives, the Democratic campaign managers retreated into policy wonkdom.

Hardly. The media was campaigning 24/7 for Kerry and every positive turned into a negative. First, it was his centerpiece "war hero" campaign tarnished by the reality shown us be the Swift Boat Vets. Then, it was his "I have a plan" slogan which was ambushed by the harsh reality of his do-nothing-but-sabatoge-national-defense two decades in the Senate . . . where his own party wouldn't trust him with a leadership position.

Kerry gambled that he could bamboozle 18% of the public to go with the 33% of his Kool-Aid drinking base to cross the finish line. He was only off by 3%. That's sKerry!

[26lemoncharlie]

Kerry ==== Traitor ==== NO VOTE for Treason ==== In Prison, not the Senate!!

[hellinahandcart]

At the Democratic convention Kerry was packaged as a decorated veteran, “reporting for duty” to protect America. This presented a serious challenge to the Bush image-makers.

It presented a serious challenge to me, too. I was in the same room as two Democrat in-laws when Effin made the "reporting for doody" salute, and I've never had such a hard time keeping a straight face.

[hellinahandcart]

a friend remarked that on election day the American electorate would have the choice between spam (Bush) and prosciutto (Kerry); in other words, voters could pick either a manufactured product, a nutritional illusion, or one that was real but unfamiliar to Middle America.

Well, there they go again. Assuming no one in Middle America knows what the hell prosciutto is.

They know what prosciutto is, and they know what a phoney is, too.

[truth_seeker]

Lesson No. 1 for Marketing (even for smartguys from UC Berkeley):

"Getta Good Product"

special translation for democrats 2004

"You can't make a chicken salad, outa chicken shit"

[Dan Middleton]

Stuneing, perhaps.