[AntiGuv]

Because I don't have a dog in this hunt, I think I can see it a little more objectively, a little more clearly.

FWIW, as anyone paying attention might've guessed, I was ready earlier this year to jump ship myself given the slightest opportunity. John Kerry isn't it..

That's a big part of why I think Bush will win - Kerry's just too repellant. Had it been Gephardt or Edwards or Graham or Clark or Lieberman he would've probably lost.

Farah doesn't mention though where John Kerry's actually gonna get his big boost: It's gonna be from his VP pick and I think that'll catapult him to frontrunner for a while.

[Benrand]

Yeah, Ichabod could pick someone new and invigorating for his VP slot.

He could go the route of out-of-the-box thinking and grab a woman...well, Geraldine Ferraro didn't help.

He should go to the guy that's been SO reliable to the Democrat party...Frank Lautenberg.

[Gorzaloon]

That's a big part of why I think Bush will win - Kerry's just too repellant. Had it been Gephardt or Edwards or Graham or Clark or Lieberman he would've probably lost.

You really have something there. I was positive that even though I despised Clinton, and had nothing but contempt for him, were I to have met him for 15 minutes, I would probably have come away liking him, as a "lovable rogue". That was his talent.

Kerry is not JFK, nor Clinton. Nor much of anything, moment to moment.

[astounded]

Anti:

You echoed my thoughts. Kerry is a repulsive, repellent politician who has none of the personal charm Bill Clinton possesses. Clinton could lapse into his good 'ol boy act, shuckin' and jivin' with the crowd, with his southernisms and so forth. Kerry, on the other hand, is the "anti-Clinton". He seems constitutionally unable to connect with people in a human sense. Rather, he exudes an arrogant pomposity and haughtiness that repels rather than attracts. There are at least two other politicians on the scene who do that: Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean. These three comprise a triumvirate from hell.