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Death of a Salesman: Can John Kerry sell John Kerry?
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| 1/27/2004
| William Saletan
Posted on 01/27/2004 10:44:48 PM PST by Utah Girl
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This article is well worth the click to Slate. Scathing indictment of Kerry.
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posted on
01/27/2004 10:44:49 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl
I'm trying to think of all the (unlikely) scenarios that could get Kerry into the White House. I'd say that there is a 10-15% chance that Pres. Bush and Karl Rove would screw up badly between now and November. It's not quite as scary to think of Kerry up there--though, thankfully, there's only a 10-15% chance of that happening.
Since everyone fears that Dean is unelectable, they foolishly assume that Kerry is electable. The reality is that only Joe Lieberman is moderate enough to attract the center this election cycle. The totally improbable, near-fatal, rise and fall of Howard Dean ends before Iowa and New Hampshire. Technically, he didn't change the inevitability of John Kerry that started fitfully a year ago. But Kerry is more liberal than even Ted Kennedy. He will have no chance in the General Election barring some highly unusual set of events.
Bush and Company have $100 million for the primaries. Kerry had to mortgage his house to make it through Iowa and New Hampshire. Bush will have a 3 to 1 money advantage throughout the campaign. He's not too far right and Kerry is not a very good campaigner. We're lucky that Dean messed things up so much. Rightfully, one of the two tickets out of New Hampshire should have been a moderate to counter Kerry's leftward slant. Now a super-liberal is being portrayed as the only Presidential material that the Dim's have this cycle. It should be fun to watch.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:11:10 PM PST
by
DJtex
To: Utah Girl
I have to say Kerry looks very good. Does he have a new campaign mangr.. Perhaps Donna, being she was so good with the makeovers. But he does need to get the right eyebrow shaved again, they do grow fast!
Love to see a before and after!
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:13:13 PM PST
by
malia
(BUSH/CHENEY '04 *A Cherished Constitutional right - the right to vote.)
To: DJtex
Kerry has an ACU rating of 6. He is as liberal or more liberal than Dean across the board. I don't think that is really coming across.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:15:21 PM PST
by
gipper81
To: Utah Girl
Seems to me the same stuff was said about Bush during the 2000 primaries.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:15:37 PM PST
by
claudiustg
(Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
To: malia
I just saw Kerry and his speech on MSNBC. He has a new haircut, it's the shortest I've ever seen it. Hmmmm, wonder if he has Naomi Wolf on the payroll.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:19:10 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: claudiustg
I think in New Hampshire you are probably right. I think Karl Rove and Karen Hughes blew in in NH for President Bush, but they sure adjusted after that. Let's see what happens with Kerry.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:20:19 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl
Botox bump!
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:20:27 PM PST
by
MEG33
(America will never seek a permission slip to provide for the security of our country)
To: Utah Girl
It's like that horrible euphemism, "She's beautiful inside," which always means she's ugly.
Ugly indeed. My Great-Grandfather's response to that statement is always the same: "Then someone needs to turn her ugly A## inside out!"
I'll admit that I chose a trivial and meaningless snippet when compared to the jest of the article. My answer to the question as to whether or not John Kerry can sell John Kerry is a resounding NO. In my opinion, Kerry couldn't sell the cure for cancer! The fact that he's doing so well is testimony to how woefully inadequate his comrades are.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:20:58 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Don't Sweat the Petty Stuff, and Don't Pet the Sweaty Stuff.)
To: DJtex
Bush and Company have $100 million for the primaries.
I think that it's up to $150 million now - and counting. That's enough to buy a very large can of whoop ass. Indeed, He'll need cargo trains to carry the mysterious substance in. There's no way that the Democrats can spin, sidestep, or lie in the face of a speeding train which is bubbling over with whoop ass.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:27:23 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Don't Sweat the Petty Stuff, and Don't Pet the Sweaty Stuff.)
To: Utah Girl
Scathing was just the word I was going to use. The links to other articles are well worth the time, too. For example:
He raised both hands to his forehead to convey how crazy he thought Bush's tax cut was. It's hard to imagine Kerry mustering this much body language without Viagra.
This is just wonderful.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:51:52 PM PST
by
Ruth A.
To: Utah Girl
Kerry is "Slick Willie" without the "slick."
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:54:22 PM PST
by
dfwgator
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: malia
Looks like the guys from "Queer Eye" got a hold of Kerry.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:55:56 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Jaysun
Well now Dems will know how we felt after Dole got the nomination in 96.
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:57:14 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
LOL, great comment. And I'll never forget the day I voted for Dole for president, it was a gray gray day.
To: dfwgator
Well now Dems will know how we felt after Dole got the nomination in 96.
No kidding! There's a difference though. The Dems have been getting stomped all over the country. The problem with the Dems isn't a bad candidate, it's a bad party with a warped philosophy
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:06:08 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(Don't Sweat the Petty Stuff, and Don't Pet the Sweaty Stuff.)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; Black Agnes; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; ...
ping!
Rush just read part of this article on the air...
...Physically, Kerry's repertoire is painfully limited. He thrusts his index finger at the audience in an overhead arc again and again, as though launching a projectile...
His words are even more stilted, particularly when he ruins a good line by adding prepositional phrases"in this country
as a fundamental commitment
to all our citizens
regardless of circumstance"until everyone is silently begging him to stop.
It's strange that a man who charged into enemy fire should prove so physically inferior, as a politician, to a man whose greatest athletic feat during the Vietnam era was swimming ashore at Chappaquiddick. I couldn't decide whether to laugh or wince as Kennedy, the lifelong legislator, exalted Kerry's "two terms" in Vietnamthen corrected his description, incorrectly, to "two sessions." (Pssst, Senator
the word is tours.)
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent miscellaneous ping list.
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posted on
01/28/2004 11:25:53 AM PST
by
nutmeg
(What happens at CPAC stays at CPAC!)
To: ConservativeMan55; Born Conservative
Please see #18 (Rush)
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posted on
01/28/2004 11:26:43 AM PST
by
nutmeg
(What happens at CPAC stays at CPAC!)
To: b4its2late; Recovering_Democrat; Alissa; Pan_Yans Wife; LADY J; mathluv; browardchad; cardinal4; ...
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Article discussed today by Rush...
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posted on
01/28/2004 11:36:29 AM PST
by
Born Conservative
("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
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