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Home Front: Politix
Death Smells Sweetest in the Fall (blog post)
2004-09-18
Political history books lack the proper vocabulary adequate to describe the horrors that are about to befall the senator. Only the Book of Revelation can properly do that. It isn't even that this is going to be a massive landslide for President Bush, it won't be. I'm guessing that the final tally in the popular vote will be Bush, 52%; Kerry, 46%; Nader 2%.

The true, and quite probably final, humiliation of John Forbes Kerry is that this race should have been a cakewalk for him. As I never tire of saying, this is the most politically vulnerable president since Carter. And George Bush isn't just vulnerable on Iraq, he's venerable on virtually everything.

The most amazing thing about the Kerry candidacy, is that it was born of an air of "electability."
Posted by:mojo

#3  The Howard Dean wing is much more powerful than the Lieberman wing.

and the Hillary Clinton wing will become ascendant - after they jettison the disgusting Terry McAuliffe. Then we hear about how much she loves the troops. Feh!
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-18 9:16:29 PM  

#2  No. I think Bush was less vulnerable than you think. The problem is positionoing. There are a lot of people unhappy now (and a lot want to blame Bush and the neocons and not the Global Jihad), but but there's little room for anyone looking to capitalize on that. On the economy, no one could survive by campaigning to roll back the tax cuts. On the war, no one could survive running on defeatism. The only room to run was to the right of Bush on those issues but the Dems are physically incapable of that at this point. The Howard Dean wing is much more powerful than the Lieberman wing.
Posted by: Prince Abdullah   2004-09-18 8:25:29 PM  

#1  This election's meme: "This election will be the last chance America has to vote in a referendum over the Vietnam War: Were our soldiers baby-killing, drug-crazed war criminals; or were they honorable men fighting for a just cause, who were betrayed by a fifth column of radical leftists who spread lies to undermine the war effort?"
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-09-18 5:21:16 PM  

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