It's the incompetence, stupid [Salon: Kerry volunteer dis'es his own]

Salon.com ^ | 12-16-2004 | By James Verini

[johnny7]

“ ...they were answering their home phones at, say, 2 p.m. on a Wednesday”

I guess this means that they were targeting the unemployed. Good strategery... Kerry said it was the worst economy since The Depression.

"Why do you think he's going to win?" I asked a staffer with whom I shared a hotel room. To this day I have no idea what his job was.”

This is precious... wonder if they 'hit-it-off'? HA!

[Cincinatus]

Almost no one working alongside me had the slightest inkling of Kerry's policy initiatives (clearly laid out on his Web site). No one knew what he'd done in the Senate.

What did he do in the Senate?

[Savage Beast]

The real downfall of the Democrats was that they got their message out.

[KJacob]

Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Wasn't that illegal?

[L98Fiero]

That, my friend, is what they don't get. It has not even occurred to them that their "ideas" were soundly rejected on merit.

[L98Fiero]

LOL, as a matter of fact it is!

[coloradan]

He voted for every single tax increase and every single gun control bill.

[coloradan]

No, it's only illegal when Republicans do it, e.g. Swift Boat Vets for Truth.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I think they are being too hard on themselves. The Kerry campaign did an outstanding job. Considering that they managed to convince 48 % of the American electorate to vote for a pink-tie wearing, seditious, effete, Lurch-looking Yalie whose wife doesn't even seem to like him, I think they deserve a pat on the back.

Kerry's people were truly outstanding. It's Kerry that sucks.

[mountaineer]

But little advance work had been done and at a school with almost 25,000 students, about 50 people showed up to hear him speak. The whole thing was nearly upstaged when a group of undergraduates, carrying a Bush banner and smacking flip-flops, came and protested.

I love it when a plan comes together.

[OldFriend]

Voter outreach consisted of lying to the youth of America and telling them the draft was imminent.

The cynicism of this lie is mindboggling.

The selfishnes of those who think serving their country is just not for them and Kerry promulgating that type of thinking........

[ghost of nixon]

spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together

...is this boob arguing that there should have been more coordination? Does anyone even give a rip about what is legal?

[MaxMax]

Now this is what I call a Gem of a post. Thank you very much indeed.
And Merry Christmas.

[Alex Murphy]

Almost no one working alongside me had the slightest inkling of Kerry's policy initiatives (clearly laid out on his Web site). No one knew what he'd done in the Senate.

Sure, he might fault the Democrats for failing to get the message out, but he needn't have worried. The Republicans made sure the voters got informed about Kerry's initiatives and accomplishments :D

[TomGuy]

Most of the Kerry supporters I met on the campaign trail, meanwhile, were really just Bush-haters. The lack of knowledge or even curiosity about Kerry, his career and his proposals, was astonishing. Almost no one working alongside me had the slightest inkling of Kerry's policy initiatives (clearly laid out on his Web site). No one knew what he'd done in the Senate. Many volunteers, even some paid staffers, didn't know how long he'd been a senator.

That is a good summary of the Kerry campaign -- from an insider.

Most people had no idea who Kerry was or what Kerry was. Even Kerry didn't know, with his continuous flipflops.

The frightening thing is -- few knew anything about him, yet he came close to winning. Had the bin Laden tape not surfaced the weekend before the election, I strongly believe Kerry would have won. And yet, even his own 'supporters' had no idea who he is or what his positions are.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

My sister is a koolaid drinking demo who has worked on various campaigns for years and she said the same thing. Total disorganization and chaos. She was in charge of planning some forum on health care with a bunch of liberals on the panel and when she asked the Kerry campaign for their official talking points on Kerry's health care plans they told her to "make up your own talking points". She was stunned. It was the first time in her life I've ever heard her be negative about her own party but she was furious over how badly Kerry's campaign was run.

[marron]

In his Dec. 15 Salon article, "The Revolution Failed -- for Now," Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Actually, such coordination is illegal, anyway. (And since it will happen, and needs to happen, whatever the law says, McCain Feingold needs to be retired, not strengthened. And Misters McCain and Feingold likewise need to be retired at the earliest opportunity).

[anonymous_user]

their "ideas" were soundly rejected on merit.

Shooting the messenger, beating the dead donkey...

[farmfriend]

Farhad Manjoo spotlights the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and the celebrated liberal third-party groups, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together.

Isn't that illegal?

[Michael.SF.]

Farhad Manjoo .. the "lack of coordination" between the Kerry campaign and ... MoveOn.org and America Coming Together

Suggested Christmas gift for Mr. Manjoo (we all know he does not have one of these):