What was he thinking?
It's all someone else's fault again. The problem was the average voter doesn't trust the democrats, no matter who they nominate.
Repubs haven't really DONE anything to them, they just have taken themselves out by their arrogant boldness.
Kerry, Dean, Durbin, Schumer, Kennedy, etc...Why doesn't some sane dem just tell them to STFU?!
I will always believe that the Clintons were very quietly behind Kerry's loss. Can't prove it, obviously...and both Clintons DID give the appearance of "helping" Kerry.
He is thinking that he should be King!
The idiot was a traitor... a pampered and efite snot who dedicated his Senate career to abortion and disarmament. With an informed, intellegent electorate, he would have lost by double-digits.
Excellent read, thanks for posting. I never get tired of hearing how the dems are spinning out of control and LOSING it!
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (((ping)))
While people heap accolades on Karl Rove, I thought the GOP ran a terrible campaign against Kerry. They refused to attack Kerry on his anti-war activities, his questionable conduct with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris, and his damaging comments in his 1971 Congressional testimony. The GOP also criticized all 527 groups including the SBVFT, the only real 527 out there. The only bright spot was the well organized effort to turn out the vote in key states.
Hmm, from the picture, Kerry looks like a nine day drunk. TerAYsa had better lock up the liquor cabinet.
That sounds about right to me.
Kerry had stone loser written all over him.
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I disagree with Taranto, who I think is terrific, but if the MSM had really done its job, in my opinion, it would have been a landslide. How does it help President Bush by telling the democrats what they want to hear? The MSM never touched his voting record and never asked Kerry, who reportedly served in Viet Nam, one tough question. The election was about much more than Viet Nam and the Swift Boat Vets.
Kerry was an elitist nominated by an elite(Teddy Kennedy). And thankfully poorly managed by an elite(Bob Shrum). As much as I despise Clinton for his criminality, he won two terms not giving Teddy Kennedy much say, and having someone other than Bob Shrum run his campaign. Clinton won on geography, and being a governor from the south was a help. A senator from the south will not cut it, Gore could not even win his own state. If the Democrats were not beholden to foaming at the mouth savage elite based on both coasts, they might nominate a winner. As a conservative I would hate to see Evan Bayh head the Democrat ticket. On Cspan's road to the whitehouse last sunday, Bayh was featured talking to a few voters and reporters in NH. A blue haired old bag questioned him on how the Republicans stole the election in Ohio. With common sense, he politely told her there was nothing to it and the party needed to put their energy in positive programs for the future. Being your typical Dem automaton she would not let it drop. As long as the Dem nominee must first travel through NH and Tommy Harkin's Iowa, I doubt if a reasonable candidate like Bayh has much of a chance. The Dems did not want Clinton, he was unwelcome, not because of his criminality, but he did not kiss the right rings. If the elite would had its way the nominee would have been another loser named Tsongas. Its not the media helping to elect Republicans, its that elite nominating candidates that affectatiously pronounce Genghis Khan and like to get into Spandex and go blowing in the wind.
Taranto does do an interesting analysis. However, I think that his conclusion is somewhat wrong. If the media had not been so biased, and had called Kerry on his fibs, the Bush win would have been an out and out landslide.
This is the most important point. The alternative media; talk radio, blogs, FOX etc. must continue working hard to counteract the 15% bias.
Creeps, crooks, shake down artists, grifters and assorted wackos will continue to gravitate to the Democratic Party because they know the MSM provides that party with cover.
They get no cover if they become Republicans. Except of course if they're RINOS.
Some years your party just has an empty stable. Take us in 1996 (please). I love Bob Dole but his campaign was uninspiring to say the least.
...the liberal media actually helped President Bush, rendering the Kerry campaign ineffective by telling Democrats what they wanted to hear rather than what was true....
Heh heh... I don't think of the media as liberal. I think of them as "partisan Democrat". The media are filled with partisan shills. Even when those shills point fingers at Fox or Rush as being partisan or conservative, all they do is emphasize their own partisan nature. Used to be they could get away with making themselves look like the mainstream and the actual mainstream (and anyone else who got in the way) as being extremist and solitary. Doesn't work now.