Democrat's Mistake [Dick Morris]

New York Post ^ | March 3, 2004 | Dick Morris

[Quilla]

THE Democratic Party slit its throat last night, abandoning 12 years of pragmatism to indulge in a nominee who's very unlikely to win. While John Edwards closed the gap that separated him from John Kerry, the front-loading of the nominating process proved too drastic to permit second thoughts. Once the Democratic voters had discarded Howard Dean and embraced Kerry, they did not have the dexterity to rethink Kerry in the light of the Edwards alternative.

[Quilla]

Bush/Cheney 2004!

[Quilla]

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.

Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism

[End Times Sentinel]

Kerry is road kill.  The idiot Dems lost a golden opportunity to get a winning candidate in John Edwards, but let the extreme left of their party guide them into selecting a patrician, blue blood, liberal.  He's as out of touch with America as Dean was, but his closet is BURSTING with skeletons. 

Their only hope now is to have Kerry fake some illness in early to mid October and sneak Hillary onto the ticket ala Torrecelli.

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[DCPatriot]

I light a candle in front of the baby Jesus praying that Mr. Kerry doesn't suffer an act of Arkancide before the November elections.

If I were Kerry I would travel like John Madden and stay off airplanes. And don't take shortcuts through hotel kitchens.

I smell Hillary in the air.

[Taliesan]

Now I'm worried. I thought Kerry was a bad choice for the Dems, till Dick Morris agreed, and so of course the opposite is true.

[Diogenesis]

Morris' View

[Qwinn]

This is the -third- thread concerning this same article.

Qwinn

[Quilla]

I'm sorry, I searched using the title "Democrat's Mistake" and came up empty. I now realize I had the apostrophe in the wrong place. Again, my apologies.

[grobdriver]

Now I'm really worried.
I don't remember Dick Morris being right on anything in the past...

[epluribus_2]

He said Hill would not run in 04 and so far has proven right about that.

[ilgipper]

I can't wait to beat the French-looking John Kerry to a pulp in November. I am fired up, and ready to go. (Yes, liberal media, I am the base, and I am ready to volunteer, donate, and vote - and do whatever is needed to continue the Bush policies for another four years, and to defeat this wussy elitist.)

[nathanbedford]

I truly wish you were right but I fear that far from being "road kill," Kerry is very likely to be our next President.

All his deficiencies which Morris recounts are irrelevant to the very few independent swing voters who will decide the election in an evenly divided nation. You and I will never change our votes away from Bush. To us his record is appaling.

Among the few voters in Ohio who will decide this election, the decision will be purely emotional and it will be almost entirely shaped by television personna, especially during the debates.

I regret to say this but Kerry passes the first test: He looks presidential. He can "win" the debates. Bush can make a horrible gaff. Kerry has the big media locked and they will smother any good Bush issue as well as Kerry's record which so shocks us. Any toe stub by Bush will be rendered into a major fall from grace. Bush must be perfect but he is gaff prone.

I could go on but you get my drift. You and I will not decide this election but a few independents in Ohio, Missouri and Wisconsin will.

[smiley]

If you work in a high rise building....like a lot of us do, you've got to ask yourself the question "Which candidate makes me feel more safe and secure in my job on a day to day basis? The answer, of course, is a no brainer....

President Bush.

[varina davis]

It was Dim pre-ordained. Kerry in 2004 and Edwards in 2008.

[nathanbedford]

To us his record is appaling.


Of course, I mean Kerry's record.

[Quilla]

I think more skeletons will fall from Kerry's closet. There's a whiff of an intern story still out there and multimillionaire wifes don't take to philandering well. His medical records could show his three purple hearts were merely a ticket out of the jungle. He wants to chit chat with terrorists for heaven's sake. Millions of Americans showed their patriotism with flags and ribbons after 9-11 - including the independents. I don't think we as a nation forget that easily.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[Semper Paratus]

I'm with Morris on this. Edwards would have been a much more dangerous candidate. A very good speaker and better looking than Lurch.

Kerry is so "been there, done that" 'rat candidate. People are going to get sick of his voice soon.

[Jim Noble]

All his deficiencies which Morris recounts are irrelevant to the very few independent swing voters who will decide the election in an evenly divided nation

You sir, are entirely correct.

the election starts off 46-46 (I fear it may even be 48-48).

The number in the middle (which is the number that remain responsive to politics) is only 4-8%, and has been falling for 40 years.

When that number gets to zero, the shooting starts.

[roses of sharon]

What vapid silly nonsense. Morris and others are living in a dream world today.

Bush is hated by 40% of the country, and mistrusted by another 10%, because of the slanderous claims of the elite, NY media, Hollywood, and the elite belt-way media, who have about 90% control over all we see and hear.

It matters not what Bush says or does, because we see what he says or does thru the eyes of those who campaign for his defeat.

It matters not what Kerry says or does, he will be seen in the exact light the elites want him seen.

The Blue states have total control over info, and local media gets their info from the NY elites.

Leslie Stahl admitted as much by saying, "we have control over Bush now, for the first time since 9/11, we have the power now."

A Kerry/UN/Soros victory is close to a done deal, I am sure Bush knows this, and knew this before Iraq. He made his decision knowing he would go home for it. Unlike Clinton, who made NO decisions in order to stay in office.

Those who support Bush better be relentless in their fight against the elite media, for they are the enemy, not the Dems.

Word of mouth is about all we have.