Another way of looking at it is that Clinton, Gore and Kerry don't have any views other than a lust for power, and so they can freely have them manipulated.
This has always puzzled me. Why do people lust for power if they have no clue what they stand for or what they want to do with it? I would only lust for power if I had a program I want to implement.
We could say that the private jet and the glamourous lifestyle might be reason enough to want power, but if Kerry wanted his own private 747 he could afford it on his own without going through all the pain of a campaign.
The best thing I can think of is that Kerry wants to be President purely as an ego trip, and that's really not gonna fly.
It does make me appreciate Bush, who I know governs based on his beliefs. How anyone could pick Kerry over Bush boggles the mind ... and yet I see many Kerry bumper stickers in my neck of the woods (Southern California).
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"The best thing I can think of is that Kerry wants to be President purely as an ego trip"
As did Clinton, and they BOTH were inspired by JFKennedy and have been consumed by a life long desire to BE president.
Kerry has especially been adamant about it -- constructing his "resume" very dilligently to the extent of his VN home videos, for crying out loud.
And I think that is why this VN issue will not just go away. Kerry carefully CONSTRUCTED himself as a VN War hero and he will not let it drop. He will not accept that Bush is as good as he is, because Bush was only NG . . . etc.
So massive ego is involved.
You could say it is just power. E.G. with Clinton. He had the power to advance or stop certain agendas. But he would get something in return. perks, more power, PAYBACK NOTES FOR HILLARY etc.
It is not that the liberals are devoid of a worldview that they want to foist upon us. They WILL use the power of the State to implement that worldview. Just look at the Janet Reno regime; pro-lifers and talk-radio hosts were considered to be extremists, terrorists, and enemies of the State . . .
They WILL use the power to implement their eletist worldview. BUT that cannot be their campaign strategy, because 99.9% of it is not what the American people really want.
IMO!