March 16, 2004


What he needs to say...

Don't get me wrong, these are great portents for the Kerry Campaign, and our future.

Perhaps most significant for Mr. Bush, the number of Americans who think that the nation is heading in the wrong direction is now 54 percent, as high as it has been in his presidency. The right direction/wrong direction figure is a measure that pollsters view as a highly reliable early indicator of problems for an incumbent.

"Our priorities need to be reshuffled," Darrell Griffin, 64, a Republican retired engineer from Hemphill, Tex., said in a follow-up interview. "The protection of the homeland and our allies from terrorism is important, but our economy in our own country and Social Security and things like that here at home are pretty important, too. "

The Times/CBS News poll offered the latest evidence that the race for president was as tight as has long been predicted. Even after two weeks in which Mr. Bush has run televised advertisements promoting himself and attacking Mr. Kerry, and in which Mr. Kerry has enjoyed the glow of favorable coverage that greeted his near-sweep of Democratic primaries, the two men are effectively tied, with 46 percent of voters saying they supported Mr. Bush and 43 percent backing Mr. Kerry.

It has to stay this good now, and continue to improve ***but*** this will really hurt Kerry and Karl Rove will play it like a Stradivarius:
Already, most voters think Mr. Kerry is a politician who says what people want to hear, the poll found, rather than what he believes — the line of attack Mr. Bush has used against him in speeches.
John Kerry needs to get an "aw shucks" mannerism, stand up on a podium in jeans and a T-shirt, stick one hand in his pocket, while drinking a 10-2-4 and say: "Ya know, I became a politician, because "Politicians" sent me and my comrades to fight and die in SE Asia, I did my duty and came back to work from inside the system to make a change. So call me a "politician" I'm as proud of that as my service on Swift Boats in South Vietnam".

Sorry Chimpy and Karl, there goes that argument.
posted by Jo Fish on 03.16.04 at 02:07 AM





Comments:

I agree 100% that Kerry needs to day those words, but it's equally important that he "be himself". Too much good old boy masquerading going on already.

 posted by: andante on 03.16.04 at 07:45 AM [permalink]

Think the Repugs will run with this one...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3290

 posted by: jillian on 03.16.04 at 04:12 PM [permalink]

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 posted by: Brian on 03.16.04 at 04:14 PM [permalink]

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 posted by: jillian on 03.16.04 at 06:08 PM [permalink]

My fellow Americans can always be counted on for handling political situations with a certain kind of comical finesse.

These polls are kind of like a political Reality Show. You know what I mean?

I mean, after Crawford and the Ranch, like, wha?

 posted by: iNFOtainMENT on 03.16.04 at 09:23 PM [permalink]

The soldier he saved gives Kerry campaign boost - 03-13-04[0].url http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0403/14/politics-90756.htm(1k)

We got your flip-flop, this is what makes great leaders is response to crisis, not flying away after reading school stories. Admitting you saw a jet hit a tower when no other American citizen outside of perhaps a freelancer and the mossad crew caught celebrating had footage...

There's a comparison we'll stand by any day of the week.

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 03.16.04 at 09:44 PM [permalink]


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