[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this!


Some punditry!(sp?)

[Falcon4.0]

Because..,

He's a War Hero

He's an ANTI-War Hero

He's two, Two, TWO HEROS in ONE!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

The Democrats seem to have succumbed to a terrible bout of wishful thinking, like Michael Moore bringing a condom in his wallet to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit-photo shoot. - Classic!

[TheGeezer]

The Democrats seem to have succumbed to a terrible bout of wishful thinking, like Michael Moore bringing a condom in his wallet to a Sports Illustrated swimsuit-photo shoot.

That is not wishful thinking. That is physically impossible.

Moreover, again I have to poke out my mind's eye.

[marlon]

Another brilliant example of writing from Jonah Goldberg.

[Southack]

Why Kerry?

Because he's rich enough (or at least his wife is that wealthy) to self-fund his 2004 Presidential campaign... The Democrats are currently 90% short of their 527 fundraising targets for 2004.

They are losing their House races. They are losing up to 5 Senate seats, and they can't afford to run a decent Presidential campaign.

But if they nominate Kerry, then his wife gets stuck with the bill.

[Zack Nguyen]

But rank-and-file Democrats should keep in mind that they feel about George Bush the way rank-and-file Republicans felt about Bill Clinton in 1996.

Not sure I agree with that. The real anti-Clinton candidates like Alan Keyes never came close to flirting with the nomination, as Howard Dean did in the Democratic primary. And unlike Kerry, Bush made it aggressively clear that he wouldn't be a reflection for conservative anger against Clinton.

[uncbob]

Hell Al Gore reivented himself many times over and as the DORK candidate still won the popular vote and damn near the WH

[Dr.Deth]

Oooh, how long before the suddenly humorless Onion comes down on Jonah for that first paragraph?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

But don't tell that to the Democrats. They're convinced his medals — which he kinda sorta, wink, wink, gave back — far outweigh all of this.

Heh-heh-heh... gotta love Jonah! :)

[cat lover too]

Do you think the democrats will wake up and find out that they just bought a LEMON?

[lilylangtree]

Kerry? He's from Massachusetts. He's got many characteristics with the RATS demigod JFK, even down to the initials. He's a rich demonRAT elitist. He's a flaming liberal leftist communist. He's married to a VERY wealthy woman (who's richer than King Tut) that makes no bones about helping her husband get to the White House so that she can become First Lady. DemonRATS are already working overtime re-making Ketchup and Teresa Tut into the images of JFK & Jackie for the public consciousness. Ohmigosh! DemonRATS are reviving the Camelot sh*t. Ketchup Kerry's sexual escapades, and with all this modeling after JFK, have got to be on the same grand scale as Kennedy and Clintoon combined. The real truth of that has yet to be told. Anyone talking out in cyberland?

[radioman]

Kerry is a dupe for Hillary. She knows the dems can't win, that's why she isn't running. To win in 2008 she needs to get rid of any democrat competition now. Kerry is a total loser who is no threat to her.

[Tacis]

Remember where you heard this! The terrible risk to the Republicans of a Kerry candidacy comes in 2008, not in 2004. While Dean was the leader, Nader would not run and compete for the same lefties. Kerry is two faced and will try to cover the left and the center. Nader knows Kerry is a fruad and will probably run against him.

Thus, the dems will take a real beating in 2004 but the Republican candidate in 2008 will face a real contest (assuming they can dredge up a reasonable candidate). A problem as significant would be if blacks (and labor, if it had the brains) split off in great numbers to vote for other than the dems. A Nader Sharpton tickey might do this. The Republicans in 2008 might then have to treat black voters seriuosly.

Kerry suggests much more than Dean the possibility of a Nader or Green party candidacy!

[dano1]

Going from Dean to Kerry was a trade-off for the Dems. They got someone who presents himself better, but Kerry also brings a lot of personal baggage Dean did not have. Despite the hype from the press, Kerry's performance in the primaries seems somewhat less than awesome. Here are the numbers in terms of the percentage of the vote Kerry has gotten. In terms of delegates he has done much better, but the vote percentages say more about his popularity with voters.

Kerry's primary vote percentages:
Iowa 38%
New Hampshire 39%
Arizona 43%
Delaware 50%
Missouri 51%
New Mexico 42%
North Dakota 50%
Oklahoma 27%
South Carolina 30%
Michigan 52%
Washington 49%
Maine 45%
Tenn. 41%
Virginia 52%

IMHO, these aren't the numbers of a very strong candidate. The average is 43.5%. For example, the media seems convinced that Kerry has proven he can win in the South, but these numbers seem to say otherwise.

[alrea]

Libya chaired the human-rights commission

Why can't someone from the United Nations get the Democratic nomination?