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Kerry's Last Stand [More Like Last Rights]
The Boston Globe ^ | 12/9/2003 | Joan Vennochi

Posted on 12/09/2003 3:26:39 AM PST by johnny7

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.-THIS IS WHERE John Kerry can exceed expectations, defy pollsters and pundits, and beat former Vermont governor Howard Dean on primary day.

With Al Gore endorsing Dean, retail politics is all Kerry has left. He can't change the direction of his campaign by using expletives to describe President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, as he opted to do in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. And anyway, how does it make sense to blame Bush for failing to provide resources for soldiers in Iraq when Kerry voted to authorize war and then voted against the $87 billion package that would provide some of those resources? He can't reverse his fortunes by blaming Dean for pushing Democrats to the left on war. Kerry must sell Kerry. The tough sell, so far, is his own doing. Now, For better or worse, person-to-person marketing is his last, best hope.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: johnkerry; kerry; newhampshire
The proud, Boston Brahmin, once the over-all favorite to take on the 'stupid', George W. Bush awaits his dismal fate. The French-looking dandy is now in the Dien Bien Phu phase of his miserable campaign for the presidency. Soon it will be all over and he will have to suffer through the degradation of the vanquished. Like Von Paulus at Stalingrad, Kerry will be paraded down the aisle at the convention in Boston to give his delegates to the cocky upstart... Howard Dean. Oh... the pain!!! HA!
1 posted on 12/09/2003 3:26:41 AM PST by johnny7
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To: johnny7
Dang it all--it isn't "last rights"----it is "last rites".
2 posted on 12/09/2003 3:38:40 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
My condolences.
3 posted on 12/09/2003 3:50:06 AM PST by johnny7 (“If you are being murdered, raped or molested... please hold... ”)
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This race is over---and not one vote has been cast yet. Ain't Democracy grand?
4 posted on 12/09/2003 3:58:27 AM PST by 07055
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To: johnny7
They used to love you, but it's all over now.
5 posted on 12/09/2003 4:03:19 AM PST by samtheman
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Near the end of this meet-and-greet, the senator picks up a small boy and carries him into the "Real Deal Express." As a political moment, it is a two-fer.

Right ... the Michael Jackson and the NAMBLA crowd.

6 posted on 12/09/2003 4:05:22 AM PST by Agnes Heep
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To: Wonder Warthog
And, to get 'em, he'd have to repent his support for abortion.

I don't see that happening.

IMHO.
7 posted on 12/09/2003 4:08:07 AM PST by Mr. Thorne ("But iron, cold iron, shall be master of them all..." Kipling)
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The French-looking dandy is now in the Dien Bien Phu phase of his miserable campaign

Nice touch, but I feel he's more into the G.A. Custer at the Little Big Horn mode right now, and he knows it.

8 posted on 12/09/2003 4:12:53 AM PST by woofer
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To: woofer
Nah... there was no real 'Last Stand' at The Battle of the Little Bighorn. I'll 'stand' by my original analogy.
9 posted on 12/09/2003 4:48:16 AM PST by johnny7 (“If you are being murdered, raped or molested... please hold... ”)
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I'll 'stand' by my original analogy.

As well you should. Mine may be premature as the real panic hasn't yet set in.

10 posted on 12/09/2003 4:55:22 AM PST by woofer
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To: johnny7
Rush is now calling him "John F-ing Kerry". LOL!
11 posted on 12/09/2003 4:56:00 AM PST by Timeout
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To: samtheman; Timeout
They used to love you, but it's all over now.

....... but it's all ****ing over now.

12 posted on 12/09/2003 5:02:18 AM PST by thesummerwind (like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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Poor ketchup boy. He's f***ed, and he knows it.
13 posted on 12/09/2003 5:12:45 AM PST by Snake65 (Osama Bin Decomposing)
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"Like Von Paulus at Stalingrad, Kerry will be paraded down the aisle at the convention in Boston to give his delegates to the cocky upstart... Howard Dean."

I beg to disagree.

The Russian campaign entailed far more courage and hardship than Kerry has endured and far more suffering for the consequences of defeat than he will ever know. The only direct element of analogy from that conflict would be that of desperation.

In truth, I think it more proper to visualize Kerry as a stepped-on packet of ketchup, spent, useless and alone in the muddied parking-lot of the Democrat's junk-food political emporium.
14 posted on 12/09/2003 6:15:47 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (DEFUND NPR & PBS - THE AMERICAN PRAVDA)
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