Posted on 10/15/2004 4:56:10 PM PDT by Chris_Shugart
I've seen the light and it is Kerry
by Chris Shugart, October 15, 2004
Well, it’s taken until now, but I’ve finally got John Kerry figured out. It hit me like a bolt of lightning during a moment in the third presidential debate. It was one of those things that’s so obvious that you miss it; so crystal clear that you see through it and don’t notice what you’re looking at. But in a matter of seconds on Wednesday night I had a revelation. It was as if John Edwards had laid his hand on my forehead and commanded, “Stand up my son, in the name of stem cell research, and see the light!”
Let me come back to Earth and explain what happened. President Bush had just challenged a statement Kerry had made on his position on Iraq. Kerry responded and said, “No, that’s wrong. In fact I’ve said the opposite.” That’s when it hit me. Kerry was right. He had said the opposite, at least once. Kerry has been on every side of every issue for so long, that he can site for the record whatever position he needs to have for any given moment or situation.
I’ve misevaluated John Kerry. I’d come to believe that his wishy-washy waffling on the issues was merely due to political clumsiness. Now I understand the strategy. Kerry can be anything you want him to be. The Democrats have recognized all along that their best hope for victory is to appeal to the voter who’s dissatisfied with Bush. Senator Kerry doesn’t have to be much in order to do that. He just has to be the Democratic challenger. That could be anybody, as long as it’s a Democrat. And that in a nutshell is the strategy. John Kerry is anybody but Bush.
Throughout the campaign, Kerry has successfully covered all his bases in order to be the “anybody” candidate. In one city he’s publicly declared that the sky is green, but in another city he once acknowledged that the sky is blue. No matter how you try to nail him down on anything, he’s on record somewhere having said something else.
This is the beauty and genius of nuance. You can be all things to all people without having to take a firm stand on anything. This is what the Kerry campaign has accomplished with considerable success. And I’m convinced it’s been done by calculated design from the very beginning.
light as in integrity...
Light as in Confetti, as opposed to heavy.
light as in integrity...
Light as in Confetti, as opposed to heavy.
LOL! That is perfect! Kerry is capable of taking three postitions all in one sentence.
I thought for a moment he was about to launch into his Gladiator Speech, My name is Maximus Delimus Meridius Kerryus, and I will never be Command in Chief of the United States of America, because I am a lying little Toad./p>
:o)
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