[cripplecreek]

Evidently there is a limit on how many times he could say he wanted to lower corporate taxes and drill in ANWAR before the rats started jumping ship.

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[XEHRpa]

Much as I hate to agree with Dick Morris, I concur that any talk on the War on Terror helps Bush. Kerry's message is eclipsed by the WOT dialogues, and as Oscar Wilde said, "the only thing worse than being talked about is... not being talked about."

[Southack]

"John Kerry’s negative rating, according to the Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, has risen from 28 percent March 4 to 36 percent March 24."

Kerry is falling too far, too fast.

We have got to back off of this guy until after their Boston convention.

[GeronL]

The conventional wisdom says that Bush’s ratings as a wartime commander and leader in the war on terror have been undermined by Clarke’s testimony and book

Conventional Wisdom is when idiot liberal reporters talk to other idiot liberal reporters.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The reason Kerry has left some of the Bush camp's charges unanswered is very simple--they are unanswerable. A proposal to raise the gas tax is tough to spin. Likewise, repeatedly voting down defense appropriations. Even Bill Clinton had to admit that something went on between him and Monica when her blue dress was found to contain his DNA.

[Torie]

Morris is obsessed that it is all about terror, and maybe he is right. But I think Kerry's erosion has more to do with some voters' discomfort about the emerging character overall of John F. Kerry. Just my two cents.

[DiamondDon1]

Hello JeanS!

Every time Kerry speaks, his negatives go up...and that is a good thing...

Bush/Cheney 2004!!!

DD

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Act I) "Hark! I hear horseclops afar. Anon! 'Tis Hitlery to the rescue!!"

Act II) (months later) "JFK sire, is it true that you have had a terrible fall from your steed? Tell us it is your neck that is not broken? Alas!"

[Lancey Howard]

In 1995, I played on the media’s inability to look up to the sky and watch the air war, and on its obsession with events on the ground, by running ads attacking Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole as early as July of that year. We kept the ads off the air in New York and Washington. The press never noticed that we were advertising. Month after month, we saw Dole’s negatives rising, but the media could never tell where it came from even though we were advertising on their own stations!

Say what you will about Dick Morris (and I know a lot of people around here do not trust him), I learn a whole lot from reading and listening to Dick Morris. There is a reason he is hired by Presidents, Senators, and media outlets for advise and commentary. He is a pretty smart fellow.

[Saundra Duffy]

John Kerry is one spooky dude.

[Lady Jag]

[Snuffington]

Two thoughts on this piece.

First, Dick Morris is an evil genius. This:

We kept the ads off the air in New York and Washington. The press never noticed that we were advertising.

is so brilliantly evil that I expect Dick Morris to have a cameo at Dr. Evil's table in the next Austin Powers movie. Um.. but good if we steal it and use it to elect someone other than Clinton. So anyway...

News poll shows that voters agree that Bush would do a better job of fighting terror by 50-27 while crediting Kerry with doing the best at creating and protecting jobs by 48-31.

The American people still collectively have the economic understanding of a turnip. Ol'time liberal tax-&-spend Kerrey knows how to create and protect jobs? Sure, he can hire a few new towel boys for that mansion on the Riviera where he yucks it up with Jaques Chirac, but American businesses will create more jobs with Bush's tax cuts alone than all of Kerrey's pool cleaners combined. And that's not even considering what Kerrey's new taxes and over-regulation will do to job creation.

Ok... we're a nation of economic idiots. But at least we're not as lost as Candians. We'll still re-elect Bush in the end.

[tkathy]

All the more reason for GWB to connect the job issue with strong national security. A leader who is not to be trusted with national security puts our jobs at risk.

[Graymatter]

Healthy economy, incumbent wins. No?

[Enduring Freedom]

A Vote For Jean Qaerry Is Suicide For America