amicus
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Some reasons for the Kerry loss in the 2004 election:
Substantive first:
No agenda. The Kerry campaign, aka the Democrat National Committee, DNC, did not offer a platform during the Democrat Convention, nor outline one during the period between the convention and the election.
They could not, as Kerry came out with a salute and a statement, “I am here to serve” which conflicted with his 30 year anti war stance in public and in Congress.
They could not as the Liberal agenda of a National Health Care aka Socialized Medicine, will not fly in middle America.
They could not as Abortion and Gay marriage will not fly in middle America.
And you must have ‘middle America’ to win an election.
The Kerry campaign was almost totally a negative, attack campaign against an incumbent administration, a ‘me too’ stance, that ‘we’ can do Medicare, the war on terrorism, jobs and the economy, ‘better’ than Bush. Unfortunately there were no explanations to back up those assertions.
On the less substantive, more personal and subject issues:
Kerry and Edwards both committed the unforgivable when they personally attacked the daughter of the Vice President.
When the wife of the Vice President, Lynn Cheney, said of John Kerry, “…this is not a good man…” The nation understood her words.
When the President of the United States, George W. Bush, said, “The best reason to elect me to another four years is to keep my wife Laura as First Lady for four more years…”
This was a subtle but effective delineation of the billionaire hard case, crude and rude wife of Senator Kerry and it did not go unnoticed.
There was also the Cheney/Edwards debate, (not a word from the Edwards camp afterwards on a national scale) wherein the nation saw the comparison between the ‘heartbeat away’ from the highest office.
There is also an accumulation of the Kennedy clan, the Carters and the Clintons, the Humphreys and the Dukakis and the Muskies…Americans are beginning to see the pacifist, isolationist, vested interest mentality of the American Liberal Left.
The weakening of the minority vote, Blacks and Hispanics, the diminution of Union power, the closing of the gender gap, the transition from a post industrial to a service economy, all have worked to distance the Democrat Party from the mainstream of American politics.
It will be interesting to watch the political climate weather the ‘global warming’ of the next four years in American Political evolution.
There will be no Clinton’s, no Kerry’s no Kennedy’s on the horizon for the 2008 election. Who will oppose the Terminator?
Amicus chuckles as he lifts a glass….
(I suppose I am going to feel really silly if Kerry wins….)
4:11 am EDT Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Substantive first:
No agenda. The Kerry campaign, aka the Democrat National Committee, DNC, did not offer a platform during the Democrat Convention, nor outline one during the period between the convention and the election.
They could not, as Kerry came out with a salute and a statement, “I am here to serve” which conflicted with his 30 year anti war stance in public and in Congress.
They could not as the Liberal agenda of a National Health Care aka Socialized Medicine, will not fly in middle America.
They could not as Abortion and Gay marriage will not fly in middle America.
And you must have ‘middle America’ to win an election.
The Kerry campaign was almost totally a negative, attack campaign against an incumbent administration, a ‘me too’ stance, that ‘we’ can do Medicare, the war on terrorism, jobs and the economy, ‘better’ than Bush. Unfortunately there were no explanations to back up those assertions.
On the less substantive, more personal and subject issues:
Kerry and Edwards both committed the unforgivable when they personally attacked the daughter of the Vice President.
When the wife of the Vice President, Lynn Cheney, said of John Kerry, “…this is not a good man…” The nation understood her words.
When the President of the United States, George W. Bush, said, “The best reason to elect me to another four years is to keep my wife Laura as First Lady for four more years…”
This was a subtle but effective delineation of the billionaire hard case, crude and rude wife of Senator Kerry and it did not go unnoticed.
There was also the Cheney/Edwards debate, (not a word from the Edwards camp afterwards on a national scale) wherein the nation saw the comparison between the ‘heartbeat away’ from the highest office.
There is also an accumulation of the Kennedy clan, the Carters and the Clintons, the Humphreys and the Dukakis and the Muskies…Americans are beginning to see the pacifist, isolationist, vested interest mentality of the American Liberal Left.
The weakening of the minority vote, Blacks and Hispanics, the diminution of Union power, the closing of the gender gap, the transition from a post industrial to a service economy, all have worked to distance the Democrat Party from the mainstream of American politics.
It will be interesting to watch the political climate weather the ‘global warming’ of the next four years in American Political evolution.
There will be no Clinton’s, no Kerry’s no Kennedy’s on the horizon for the 2008 election. Who will oppose the Terminator?
Amicus chuckles as he lifts a glass….
(I suppose I am going to feel really silly if Kerry wins….)
4:11 am EDT Tuesday, November 02, 2004
