After missteps, Kerry refocuses his campaign

The Boston Globe ^ | 11/23/2003 | Patrick Healy

[Radix]

NASHUA -- Even his advisers called the performance "sluggish" and "unpresidential": Senator John F. Kerry, at a house party here on Nov. 7, left some Democrats in the room bewildered by referring to President Bush's "job-creating tax cut," calling an abortion procedure "grisly or whatever," and offering such anti-sound bites as "the road traveled is the prologue to the road to be traveled."

[Radix]

ATTENTION ATTENTION

After his early fumbling Kerry tries new game plan.

Just what we need, another Kerry makeover.

[jwalsh07]

He's refocused so many times he just drove the lens through his eyeball.

[Miss Marple]

The idea that this guy is an attractive alternative to President Bush is laughable. He is toast.

[Cicero]

"When Dean decided to give up public financing, Kerry had to come four-square with a huge decision: Where is the campaign, and do I think I can win the nomination?" said Jim Margolis, a Kerry media consultant. "He had to come to a kind of clarity of mind about that. . . ."

Say what?

[YankeeReb]

BWAAA HAHAHA Frankenberry is flaming out before the primaries really begin. It's going to be Bush vs Dean in '04 which means a replay of 1972. Dean is this generation's McGovern.

[Ole Okie]

Is this John Fitzgerald Heinz-Kerry, the French looking Viet Nam veteran?

Dew tell!

Holder of the Gold Medal in the "Throwing Someone Else's Medals over the White House Fence" event?

He's both a Presidential pretender AND a Viet Nam Veteran?

[billorites]

And this from his friends in the Boston Globe?

Ouch!

[Right_in_Virginia]

"A candidate has to try a bunch of different things, go through various stages, to figure out what makes him comfortable and how to break ahead," said Vanessa Kerry, one of the senator's daughters,

This is how the Kerry family defines leadership?!

[NYC GOP Chick]

The Ketchup Lady's BoyToy's troubles never end...

[NYC GOP Chick]

[Dan from Michigan]

I've said for a long time that this guy is the easiest to beat of the 'top tier' candidates.

Besides his screwups, he's rich, elitist, aloof, from Taxachusetts, a "skull and bones", Dukakis's LT governor, very anti-gun, very pro-abort, has a 20 year Washington insider's record so he's part of the 'problem', and isn't exactly charasmatic.

[Dan from Michigan]

ROFL. I'm borrowing that one for my profile page.

[Dan from Michigan]

Oh yeah, isn't his wife some bigshot at TIDES foundation?

[NYC GOP Chick]

Go ahead, babe -- it ain't my bandwidth! ;)

[CFC__VRWC]

And this from his friends in the Boston Globe?

This is actually one of the nicer columns the Globe has run about Jean Luc lately. They're all misty-eyed and a-flutter over Howard Dean.

[ServesURight]

Yep, Kerry is a joke. I heard his stupid soundbite in reference to the RNC's excellent spot. He said we don't need another commercial, we need another Commander-In-Chief. This coming from elitist New England liberal copping a Dukakis-like photo-op with him pheasant hunting.

Kerry should cut his losses before he spends all of Mrs. Heinz's fortune.

[el_texicano]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Ain't that the sad truth of it.

By the way, your tagline is...well on the poetic side isn't it?? Nice touch.

[el_texicano]

Love the flag, so appropriate for the Democrat party. Oh and did you hear they are demanding the Bush and the NRC stop running adds that put them in a bad light. Ohhhh, boo hoo....

[NYC GOP Chick]

The tagline is from a song on the (relatively) new Skynyrd CD. :)

[NYC GOP Chick]

They put themselves in the bad light -- Bush and the RNC are just pointing it out to the rest of us.