The Democrats have a candidate that is to the left of Kennedy. American voters are not going to elect an extreme liberal, and the Democrats know this, so what is going on?
Kerry is making one wild statement each day. These sound bites will come back and "bite him in the butt". So why is he doing this?
The thing to remember, Kerry is not yet the Presidential candidate for the Democratic party. I am begining to think he is not meant to be. So what is his role?
First, to keep anyone from looking at the (wo)man behind the curtains pulling the strings. Next, he is baiting President (and us).
He wants pull the Prisident down into the gutter with him, while someone else stays out of the fray.
Watch Kerry get even more strange as this "campaign" goes on.
He actually might be. For all his public appearances, he's virtually isolated from the world in his own little echo chamber. He's surrounded by campaign yes-men who tell him only what he wants to hear, his campaign appearances are totally scripted and all the bit players (the union goons and other members of the public who serve as backdrops) are completely vetted beforehand. No one just up and goes to a Kerry campaign event, at least no one who might have even the remotest chance of showing up on TV or of being interviewed.
And to top it all off he's being "covered" by a fawning media that's convinced that the public is as full of raw, seething hatred for George Bush as they are, and are just a hair's breadth away from snatching him from the White House and stringing him up from a lamppost ala Mussolini. Whenever Kerry attacks Bush the press cheers itself hoarse and tells him that this is what the public wants to hear. The press and the Kerry people are convinced that Bush stole the 2000 election, manufactured the 9/11 attacks so he could take out Saddam and avenge his Daddy (as well as steal the oil for his cronies at Halliburton), and is just generally responsible for everything in the world that's bad, all the way down to bad breath and eczema of the eyebrows.
And because everyone they associate with feels the same way, they think that the vast majority of the public must agree with them. Under these circumstances it's not at all surprising that Kerry is as politically tone deaf as a stone post.