[FairOpinion]

It's hard to excerpt this editorial -- suggest reading or at least scanning the actual article.

Even Dems are having a hard time voting for Kerry -- and this author didn't even address the War on Terror, where Kerry would totally flop -- to our detriment.

[Betaille]

"I admit, I'm allergic to Kerry. Something in the vibration of that deep, pompous tone he adopts--the lugubrious, narcissistic fake gravity--grates on me."

This is EXACTLY how I feel about him... I like this writer already. His disguistingly babyish use of his vietnam experience to put down other people for their military experience sets me off worse than anything though.

[cripplecreek]

I think we're witnessing the beginnings of the predicted "buyers remorse". Virtually everything democrats like about Kerry is met with evidence of opposition from the guys voting records.

[OldFriend]

That so called bravery on the field of battle is a figment of Kerry's active imagination and not borne out under close scrutiny of the available record.

[goldstategop]

Mickey Kaus is a New Democrat from the Clinton School who detests an Old Line Liberal Warhose that John F. Kerry is. Kerry puts even the Third Way Democrats to sleep.

[Verginius Rufus]

Interesting piece. If Kerry wins, he'll do worse than Carter. I can believe that.

Another Democrat pundit who shows signs of buyer's remorse about Kerry's likely nomination is Elizabeth Drew in the March 11 issue of The New York Review of Books.

Her first few paragraphs are about how wrongheaded McAuliffe's strategy of bunching up the primaries so that the nominee would emerge quickly was...which suggests that she is not thrilled about Kerry. The rest of the piece, beyond hits on Bush and Hugh Shelton, is a paean to Wesley Clark.

[Wolfstar]

It doesn't help that Kerry is not well-liked in Massachusetts...

Then why do they keep voting to keep him in the senate?

[alloysteel]

Mickey the Kaus has two perfectly legitimate fears. I suspect John Kerry as President would manage to make Jimmy Carter look extraordinarily competent. And John Kerry as defeated candidate would make the loud public proclamations and criticisms by the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" seem like muted mutterings.

[Cuttnhorse]

Excellent article...should be read completely.
Geez, my bookmarks page is becoming overloaded with Kerry hit pieces.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[optimistically_conservative]

This comes from a previous thread that was pulled.

It was posted by Wild Irish Rose and deserves to be posted again.

It's becoming very apparent, that nobody in the DNC had access to Google before they annointed Kerry- the Democrat "nominee du jour." In spite of Kerry's crappy record on every issue important to Americans and his abhorrent treatment of the military- I am convinced that Kerry does not have the physical or emotional strength to go the distance.

I fully expect some sort of physical collapse or mental decompensation before the general election, which will force him out of the race.

I don't see this as a grand scheme by the Clinton's- I think they have lost control of the process. If anything, I see Kerry as the original dream candidate of the Bush team. Dean was just a head fake and the media and the Dems bought it.

If Kerry collapses before the convention, I guess the nomination is Hillary's for the asking.

I assume that if Kerry collapses after the convention,his VP would ascend to the head of the ticket.

[eeriegeno]

What? John F'ing Kerry has already told us what he's all about. First he was Audie Murphy, a war hero. Then he was a JFK from Mass. Then he was Elvis strumming the guitar. What he hasn't told us is 'who the hell is John Kerry????????'

Or maybe then again he has. Today he is the John Kerry who supports the Iraq war but yesterday he was the John Kerry who didn't. Today he is opposed to gay marriages but yesterday he wasn't. Today he is a war hero but yesterday he was a war protestor. And on, and on, and on....

I would like to ask some of the 48% who support Mr Kerry in recent polls, "just exactly which John Kerry do you support?" And, "Do you seriously believe that this guy will be better to guide this country for the next four years?"

And I thought that Clinton was a good chameleon! This guy is Clinton+.......

IMHO, John Kerry is nothing more in 2004 than the gigolo who married Tayrayzeh.................

[gitmo]

The hints in Kerry's senatorial resume aren't encouraging. Legislating is an almost pathologically collaborative effort, and Kerry has been a conspicuous non-performer in the legislation department. Time magazine found exactly "three substantive bills passed with Kerry's name on them" Two of these "had to do with marine research and protecting fisheries." (The other was "designed to provide grants for women starting small businesses.")

Kerry is a follower. Not a leader.

[SunkenCiv]

Michael what's his name, who founded Slate, was a rabid supporter of Dean, wrote anti-Clark stuff for the website, and while I don't like him or his opinions or (in particular) his arrogance -- which far surpasses that of Kerry -- I do find it amusing that the Democratic [sic] Party is shredding as we watch.

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent!

The Trouble With Kerry
by Mickey Kaus

It doesn't help that Kerry is not well-liked in Massachusetts ("We're all trying to put our arms around him," said one beefy Irish pol at the Kerry victory party in Manchester, N.H.) or that he has broken his word when it's in his interest to do so--as when he broke a heralded spending-cap agreement with his GOP rival, William Weld, in the closing days of his 1996 race... Kerry protesting the Vietnam war by throwing someone else's medals away resonates uncomfortably. Kerry wasn't willing to take the risk of parting with his own medals. They might come in handy some day! Even in his moment of maximum political bravado he was cautious... It doesn't help that Kerry has a tendency to play the voters for fools--letting them think he's Irish (when he's not) or letting them think he's cleaner, in the campaign contribution department, than he really is.(e.g., saying he takes no PAC money but accepting unlimited "soft money" contributions to his Citizen Soldier Fund.) Or letting them think he gave up his own medals.

[Mo1]

Even Dems are having a hard time voting for Kerry

I've been noticing those comments on a few left sites

[thoughtomator]

And then he resigns, then Hillary takes over, and at some point the dead are supposed to rise, right?

[AFreeBird]

Something in the vibration of that deep, pompous tone he adopts--the lugubrious, narcissistic fake gravity--grates on me

I had the same feeling about Bill Clinton... well, actually, it was his eyes. They say the eyes are the window to the soul, well his eyes were dark, seedy, in a word: Evil.