[js1138]

Jonathan, Jonathan. When you use the word sliming you really put yourself into it.

[clee1]

Kerry went wrong much earlier than this campaign!

I still don't understand why he isn't in Levenworth turning big rocks into small ones.

[Southack]

Newsweek has no news here, only editorial opinion, and that opinion is rotten anyway.

What's news, contrary to this article, is that the Kerry Campaign is coming out with new attacks on President Bush on fake "business scandals," Environmental "lies," and they are even taping a TV show with Dr. Phil to call President Bush a liar about "healthcare" per U.S. News & World Report, among others...

That Dr. Phil TV show airs in October, by the way.

The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!

[RichInOC]

I'm sorry...you mean they hadn't tried already over the summer?

[Reagan Man]

Jonathan Alter is another liberal Democrat propagandist, who shilled for Clinton and is now engaged in resurrection therapy for the Kerry campaign.

[montag813]

Kerry made two fatal errors:

1. Publishing "Tour of Duty"
2. Not running a single ad during the month of August, which left MoveOn running Bush-slam-ads across the midwest, but not a single POSTIVE message ad ran to give voters the other side of the coin. Stupid, amateur-hour politics.

[eggman]

...all that Kerry had to do was establish his credibility as a potential commander in chief and he would win

To have credibility you have to stand for something. What does Kerry stand for besides raising taxes on the rich? Credibility involves more than just saying "I defended this country in Vietnam, and I'll defend this country as President" and posing as a "war hero" when he spent more time protesting the war than fighting it.

[Political Junkie Too]

...and was reinforced by the sealed and often smug world of Democratic politics, where it was taken for granted that Bush was bad, bad, bad, and any reasonable person already knew why.

It seems like this entire essay comes from that same smug world.

-PJ

[punster]

Alter: "...If they'd sliced up Bush this summer, they could have used the debates to seem presidential."

Alter is out of touch with reality. The DNC (Democrat Nazi Committee), Moveon.org and the News Media have been continually trying to slice and dice GW Bush for the last four years.

Alter cannot realize that Kaptain Ketchup does not have anything presidential in his demeanor. Kerry can only come across as totally phony.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

No need to discredit Bush at all, because he was already thoroughly discredited slimed all winter and spring.

[snuffy smiff]

this twerp is deluded enough to be working at seeBS

perhaps he's thinking he'll replace Dannyboy...?

[goldstategop]

Jonathan Alter is a liberal. As for his advice to Kerry, it doesn't work because Alter, like Kerry, never tells us what Kerry would do different than Bush in the White House. And I have to laugh at the notion cutting and running in the face of the Al Qaeda affiliated Al Zarqawi terrorists IN Iraq would make America safer. Heck, even Ketchup Boy himself said Iraq IS part of the War On Terror. Alter doesn't acknowledge the Democratic presidential candidate is absolutely awful. What we can be thankful for is the libs continuing to be under the delusion the country agrees with them in their hatred of America. Alter and Co. are in for a rude awakening on November 3rd.

[Freemyland]

"No need to respond directly to Bush ads sliming him for wanting to cut the same weapons systems that Bush's father cut.

Kerry wanted to cut those weapons during the heat of the Cold War.

[Ken H]

He said Shrum.

[okie01]

The hive is arriving at a conclusion. This is the 4th or 5th article from the MSM that I've seen tonight that attempts a post-mortem on the Kerry campaign and postulates the following:

1. Kerry is going to lose.

2. The reason for the impending loss is that "the Democrats haven't been mean enough".

They then proceed to offer free advice to the Kerry campaign about how they can turn it around.

Wonder if they'd be that free with advice if the tables were turned...???

[sevry]

No need to discredit Bush at all, because he was already thoroughly discredited.

Alter.

Hey - the reason Kerry is losing is because he's such . . a . . . DORK! His wife can't even stand to be called Terry Kerry, her husband's last name.

The more people see of Kerry, the less they like him. He needs media filtering. But an excess of filtering just gave CBS, and the leftwing 'mainstream', generally, a black eye. And the swelling won't go down in just five or six weeks.

[greasepaint]

Kerry has to:
hide his phoney VietNam history
hide his anti-VietNam war treason
hide his leftist and rather meager Senate history
pretend to be a centrist
hide his 'I am the new JFK' bs
fight off the Swiftvets
keep his wife from hogging the limelight
keep Clinton from hogging the limelight
pretend he can relate to common folk
explain how his 'more sensitive' war on terror would work,
and attack Bush, without being overly blatant about it,
.
his VP choice, Johnwhatever, Esq.ambulance.chaser,
(from a state Kerry will lose) isn't helping any with
people who aren't hard core democrats
.
Is he still asking Teddy for help?,
Republican pranksters should attend Kerry's ralleys wearing lifejackets

[NYCVirago]

Sheesh. It never occurs to Alter that perhaps the problem isn't Kerry's campaign; it's Kerry himself.

[hershey]

Alter's road map for Kerry will take him straight off the nearest cliff. Liberals just don't get it, thank God. Talk about looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

[gpapa]

Jona^than
You just don't get it.
The Grand Plan is to dump this turkey Kerry to make way for Hil'/Bil' in '08.
The Clinton operators who moved into the K^erry camp are there to try to protect down-ballot races and avoid a disaster like '92.