DUMBOCRAT MORPH ALERT: Kerry Trying to Adjust His Image, Style to Reach Mainstream Voters

LATIMES ^ | 2/3/03 | Mark Z. Barabak

[Liz]

PHOTO: Working to shed some political baggage, the White House hopeful is getting up close and personal with many of Iowa's Democrats.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- It is 12 degrees on a Saturday afternoon, and John F. Kerry is standing in Sarah Swisher's crowded living room amid a collection of folk art and roughly 100 sweater-clad Johnson County Democrats.

The Massachusetts senator is dressed in a blue chambray shirt, brown corduroys and a chunky black running watch, an outfit that gives an appearance of studied nonchalance.

But with his back to the wide bay window, holding forth on subjects from AIDS to global warming, it often seems as though the solemn Kerry is on the floor of the U.S. Senate rather than auditioning before a group of party activists chewing oatmeal cookies. There is plenty of Bush bashing, an obligatory paean to the heartland and then references such as the one to "e-suh" -- an acronym for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act -- that harken to the Beltway and land here with a decided clunk.

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[Liz]

....and wear a straw hat, checkered shirt and overalls
at the same time...........that'll get him votes for sure.........

[johnny7]

I don't, but it was on network TV. Google has some dirt on Kerry also.

They weren't his medals though... they belonged to someone else. HA!

Kerry saved his. The dudes a phoney... a pod.

We had men on the ground in Vietnam when Kerry did this... shades of Hanoi Jane!

[Taffini]

he is starting to look like a dried up apple--all drawn up and sour looking---with big hair yet

[Taffini]

Texas love Boston like Boston loves Texas---give me Texas any day

[Taffini]

Tell me about the medals

[demkicker]

"Watch GWB by comparison. In the SOTU address, you could really see sincerity, honesty and compassion. The RATS can't be honest about who they are, they would lose. Is America starting to wake up?"

You're right. GWB reeks of sincerety. I pray that Americans are starting to wake up. The shrill voices of the dems are loud enough to wake the dead.

[Stentor]

Dead on.