Kerry still has one advantage: He's not Bush

St. Petersburg TImes ^ | September 19, 2004 | PHILIP GAILEY, Times Editor of Editorials

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Still grasping that last straw.

[Casloy]

But there's no reason for Democrats to panic six weeks out.

If I were and Dem and watching Kerry on the campaign trail I'd certainly be in a state of panic.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You can smell this editor's panic.

[mozarky2]

Democrats need to get a grip on themselves

like PeeWee Herman?

[laredo44]

As Philip Gordon of the Brookings Institution wrote recently, ". . . resolve in itself is not a strategy, and plenty of resolute leaders - Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, for example - have led their nations to ruin by pursuing the wrong course. Bush's resolve, moreover, has been accompanied by what many perceive to be arrogant, nationalistic rhetoric that has alienated allies American needs and provoked potential enemies around the world."

Philip Gordon: a Neville Chamberlain for our time.

[gop_gene]

If I were and Dem and watching Kerry on the campaign trail I'd certainly be in a state of panic.

Exactly so. If the situation were reversed, the gop would be down in the dumps. Here's hoping the dems undesirable position causes them and their candidate to do all sorts of goofy things.

[hosepipe]

The more Kerry speaks the more eyes get twiching..
Kerry voters are very much like Clouseau's boss...

[Jaysun]

"I believe you deserve a president who isn't going to gild the truth, or gild our national security with politics, who is not going to ignore his own intelligence, who isn't going to live in a different world of spin, who will give the American people the truth, not a fantasy world of spin."

We do deserve such a President Mr. Kerry, and that's what disqualifies you. If we should ever need a weak, lying, indecisive, radical liberal that wants to destroy everything we hold dear we'll give you a call.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry takes the stage at a fund raiser in Boston, Massachusetts September 18, 2004. REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION

[DB]

Bob Dole?

[dawn53]

In many ways, Kerry has been a terrible presidential candidate

And there you have it ladies and gentlemen!

A declaration from a newspaper editor (albeit a liberal newspaper).

Anybody but Busy is still the strategy!

The problem is, he states himself, that Kerry is "terrible", but the American people "know" Bush and they don't think these last 4 years have been so "terrible."

Where are these people's heads...yes we're losing men in Iraq, yes the insurgency is ramping things up trying to influence the election...but we remain unattacked at home since 9/11.

Conclusion by most Americans, Bush must be doing something right !!!

[Casloy]

Yeah, he really doesn't appear to see what is going on. It isn't as if Kerry fell behind because Bush simply had a good campaign. Kerry fell behind because people are beginning to see what a complete loser he is. You compare him to George Bush and it makes him look even more weak and incompetent.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION

[YaYa123]

Reminds me of the final scene of ON THE BEACH:

There's Still Time, Brother

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You compare him to George Bush and it makes him look even more weak and incompetent.

Bump!

[dawn53]

CW...when we're not familiar with a local candidate in some obscure race during a primary or election, we get the St Pete Times and vote for who they DON'T endorse, LOL!

[Just mythoughts]

We are hearing from the seriously delusional crowd now.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Algore's trying to help by stirring up the base (they look unimpressed - actually concerned).

(AP Photo/George Widman)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I know about the SP Times.

I lived in SP for quite awhile.

Your method for voting is spot on!

LOL

[Happygal]

This whole article could be summed up in one sentence:

'Democratic voters, please, please, please don't prove yourselves to be the vapid, fickle citizens we suspect you are. Go out and vote, pretty please, I beg you, *sob*, *sob*'