Posted on 09/16/2004 11:36:59 PM PDT by kattracks
OHN Kerry's recent shakeup of his campaign illus trates his larger problem: He is playing a simple game of checkers, while President Bush is playing a subtle game of chess.Edging aside Bob Shrum and promoting former Clinton spokesmen Mike McCurry and Joe Lockhart to key positions in the campaign replaces a flawed strategist — Shrum — with two able, but limited, tacticians. Both McCurry and Lockhart are good at handling evolving crises and keeping the media well fed and happy. But two press secretaries do not equal one strategist.
Kerry's basic problem is that he has no overview of how he's going to win. His consultants and staff confuse a pile of ammunition with a strategy.
Their basic idea is to hit Bush with everything and anything they can find. But throwing negatives at a sitting president is like punching a pillow. It feels good and keeps the base happy — but it doesn't help to win the election. By the time a man has served four years as president, negatives that pre-existed his tenure are largely irrelevant.
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Dick Morris doesn't even get to the question every one's thinking but no one's asked. WHY does Kerry WANT to be President? When he can answer that question in ten words or less, he'll have the keys to 1600 Pennslyvania Ave. Everything else is simply tilting at the windmills.
That is the one that did in Teddy Kennedy wasn't it?
" WHY does Kerry WANT to be President? When he can answer that question in ten words or less, he'll have the keys to 1600 Pennslyvania Ave."
I don't agree. Mike Dukakis knew why he wanted to be President; so did Hubert Humphrey; so did George McGovern.
What wins you the presidency is if your answer to that question coincides with that the public wants.
My, I do like what Dick Morris is saying!
But does Kerry? So far he hasn't told us why being President is important to him. He has yet offer voters one positive idea of how their lives would be better under him than under Bush.
LOL! Great!
When it comes to predictions, Morris has been wrong more often than he's been right. But this time I really think he's on to something.
He wants to be President so he can live out the fantasy films he made in Vietnam with his little movie camera while others were trying to fight a war. He lives in a bubble of his own fantasy creation. That's the skerry part. It's like that 1960's or '70's song, "Sweet Lorraine." He lives in a fantasy world of "volumes of literature based on [him]self.
Hmmmm...come to think of it, I didn't hear the daily "the gloves are coming off" statement from the Kerry campaign today.
Bring It On! Make It Stop! We're Taking The Gloves Off! Now We're Fightin' Irish! Bwahahahaha!!!
Good night.
Don't get caught too much in anything Morris, the toe sucker says.
Good night from here also.
This time I liked what Morris said.
My eyelids are very heavy.
Rush was giving the new unemployment figures and noted that it went down a little...he then opined "It went down because Kerry has been doing all this hiring recently"(or so).
The MSM know better than to ask their candidates that question anymore since the Teddy fiasco.
This is one of Morris' best lines ;-)
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