Aides nurture Kerry's appeal

The Boston Globe ^ | March 2, 2004 | Patrick Healy

[Cincinatus' Wife]

NEW YORK -- Douglas Paulson, an out-of-work actor who once supported Howard Dean for president and admires the Rev. Al Sharpton and Dennis J. Kucinich for expressing "overlooked opinions," now says he is "90 percent certain" he will vote for John F. Kerry in today's New York primary.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Many of these same voters acknowledged that it was an image of Kerry -- Kennedyesque, a war hero -- that attracted them, rather than a certainty that he was the best standard-bearer among all Democratic leaders in Washington or the state capitals.

Democratic frontrunner US Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) of Massachusetts throws a football on the tarmac prior to departing from Oakland Airport in California. If John Kerry has had a relatively smooth run towards the Democratic presidential nomination, the tough days are only beginning with the Republican White House cranking up its attack machinery(AFP/Stephen Jaffe)

[Just mythoughts]

JFKerry

"fallback candidate"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

We can watch him fade.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm open : Democratic frontrunner John Kerry (news - web sites) catches a football on the tarmac prior to departing from Oakland Airport en route to New York. (AFP/Stephen Jaffe)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., throws a football while his campaign plane, enroute from Oakland to New York, was being refueled in Indianapolis, Ind., Saturday Feb. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) catches a football thrown by a campaign staff member as he prepares to leave Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, February 28, 2004. Kerry is heading to New York for a Democratic candidates debate and to continue his campaign 'Jobs Tour' of the Super Tuesday battleground states before Tuesday's crucial and possibly decisive caucuses and primaries. REUTERS/Jim Bourg US ELECTION

[Cincinatus' Wife]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) pretends to kick a football into the press cabin as his campaign plane prepares to takeoff for New Yat Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, February 28, 2004. Kerry is heading to New York for a Democratic candidates debate and to continue his campaign 'Jobs Tour' of the Super Tuesday battleground states before Tuesday's crucial and possibly decisive caucuses and primaries. REUTERS/Jim Bourg US ELECTION

[kcvl]

I am already SICK of him!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., throws a football before boarding his campaign plane in Oakland, Calif., for a flight back to New York City, Saturday Feb. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bush-bashing: international sport?***Some Bush-bashers merely make fun of the president's personal traits and failings. "The Bush Dyslexicon" by Mark Crispin Miller is a compilation of the president's public-speaking slipups (of which there are indeed many). There are websites devoted to photos of the president looking like a chimpanzee. In Britain, reports have referred to Bush as a "cowboy," a "redneck," and a "vulgar Texan." Such name-calling is a sorry substitute for debate, and surely undeserving of good Americans' time or consideration, much less their votes. Worst of all, some in the anti-Bush brigade try to scare people into voting against him. In "Bushwhacked," Ivins and Mr. Dubose tell of a New Jersey family allegedly being poisoned by an insecticide plant because the Republican-run Environmental Protection Agency refuses to do anything about it; they write of food conglomerates that allegedly knowingly spread deadly listeria, as another downside to "life in George W. Bush's America." Raising people's fears about their health is surely the lowest form of political engagement. It plays on irrational concerns rather than exploring any hopes and ambitions they might have for reshaping the world outside their front doors.

With little by way of political conviction, many Bush-haters resort to moral blackmailing, or hectoring the electorate. Bush is an idiot, they say, so you'd have to be an even bigger idiot to vote for him. Or they claim that voting Bush is bad for your health; or you might inadvertently help to poison some poor family in New Jersey.

Taken together, all this looks like an incoherent rant, a scream of rage against the Bush administration or "stupid white men," or chemical plants, or global warming, or political power in general. The aim may be to expose Bush as incompetent, stupid, and dangerous - but the anti-Bush brigades often do a better job of exposing themselves as politically lazy, cynical, and lacking in vision.

Indeed, if they aren't careful, such critics could prove to be Bush's secret weapon: The American electorate may tire of being cajoled and frightened into voting against Bush, rather than politically convinced to do so. Some might even be tempted to vote for him as a way of snubbing the critics who have patronized them. America's voters deserve better than this.***

[IrishRainy]

Were those pics taken before he boarded the "Million Air" plane? What a fraud!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What a fraud!

What a joke!

[Just mythoughts]

Just got to love these people....

JFKerry our "FALLBACK" candidate.

Sure would look good on bumper stickers.

[driftless]

When Howard The Horrible Dean was the frontrunner, the Dem elite looked at him with horror and shock. "We can't let that nut be the nominee" they gasped, "we'll only get about thirty percent of the vote in the next election." So they picked someone like Kerry, who holds almost exactly the same far-left views as Dean does but does not come off as a deranged asylum escapee like Dean. In fact Stoneface Kerry is the epitome of boredom and inertia. He doesn't actually want to take a stand on anything (except for criticizing Bush for everything including post-nasal drip) until supposedly he gets elected. He is the left-wing stealth candidate. He even refuses to allow himself to be depicted as a liberal even though his record shows him to be the most liberal senator in congress. Unbelievable! This is one scary person.

[Salamander]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

JFKerry our "FALLBACK" candidate. Sure would look good on bumper stickers.

I think that would look great on about a million bumpers!

[Sir Gawain]

You can tell a lot about a guy by the way he throws and catches a ball...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

OOPS!

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) tries to catch a football thrown by a campaign staffer at Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California, February 28, 2004. Kerry is heading to New York for a Democratic candidates debate and to continue his campaign 'Jobs Tour' of the Super Tuesday battleground states before Tuesday's crucial and possibly decisive caucuses and primaries. REUTERS/Jim Bourg US ELECTION

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This is one scary person.

He's a dolt. The perfect standard bearer for the Left.

[Salamander]

Not to worry.
The Botox has numbed his face so he felt no pain....:)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL

[Fledermaus]

He can't catch the pigskin because he's a Jew now, don't you know?

[kcvl]

ROFLOL!!!

[Salamander]

I'm no sports expert but I *think* the key to successfully catching a ball is to keep your eyes *open*.

[Salamander]

Dare I say that he's a political *HAAACKKK!*?....;)

[Salamander]

He is not!
He's Irish and Viet Nam Veteran!
Bite your tongue!
[sarcasm off]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

News of candidate’s Jewish roots adds another flavor to campaign ***NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (JTA) — First it was then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Next it was Gen. Wesley Clark, the supreme allied commander of NATO during the war in Kosovo. Now it’s Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry whose Jewish roots are being reported.

Kerry? The Massachusetts senator, the quintessential WASP-y looking politician with an Irish-sounding name?

Yup.

Two of Kerry’s grandparents were Jewish, it turns out.

Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic, said he has known for 15 years that his paternal grandmother was Jewish, but had unsuccessfully searched for news of his paternal grandfather’s roots.

However, a genealogist hired by the Boston Globe found that Kerry’s grandfather was born to a Jewish family in a small town in the Czech Republic.

“This is incredible stuff,” Kerry told the Globe. “I think it is more than interesting. It is a revelation.” ***

[kcvl]

Moron/jerk! He needs to get TE-RAY-SA to iron his shirt.

BTW, I can't find one of the "Million Air" plane. Didn't the "reporters" get a photo of that one? I'm sure they would if it had been GWB.

[Salamander]

[kcvl]

Does he have tobacco in his lower lip? lol! He reminds me of old Howard Hughes with those fingernails. GAG!

[kcvl]

A couple of his supporters. The second one can't find her heart.

[Salamander]

I wouldn't swear but I think he's trying to "do" Tom Waits.

[Salamander]

The second one has a man groping her from behind.
[Where's Bill?]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Another JFK in the White House?

[kcvl]

US China Peoples Friendship Association
Peggy Roney (the one who can't find her heart).

The other one is Kay Beynart, an Atlanta activist and Green freak. Her deceased husband was a trial lawyer and Democrat activist.

I wonder how Kerry is going to explain his Green "friends" to his Union "friends"?

[Fresh Wind]

Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic...

Well, for all his practice, he hasn't gotten very good at it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bill Clinton leaves church holding a bible

[kcvl]

While Monica was at the White House, under the desk, waiting for him to return.

[PJ-Comix]

"This is going to be a campaign different from campaigns in the past," Kerry told 600 students at Ohio State University. "This isn't going to be some kind of, you know, we're-like-them-they're-like-us-wishy-washy-mealy-mouth-you-can't-tell-the-difference deal. This is going to be something where we're giving America a real choice."

I guarantee that Ketchup Boy will come off as even more of a shmuck than Gore did in his first debate with Bush.

[goldstategop]

Yeah a guy with the charisma of a dead horse. I can't see the Democrats excited about John F. Kerry for the rest of the year, if he doesn't put them to sleep first with his boring manner and long-winded delivery.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

....if he doesn't put them to sleep first with his boring manner and long-winded delivery.

When I hear his voice, I think of Hillary's strained speech delivery.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Don't you get it!? He's JFK, Camelot, the whole nine yards. ;^)

Senator Kennedy in a game of football on the Mall in Washington, DC.

[Betaille]

"Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic..."

What a load of B.S.
If kerry is so deeply religious then why... when asked about g-d... can he come up with no answer better than "I don't beleive the way president bush does, in invoking IT all the time."???

[mewzilla]

Even so, some Democrats are just not fully reconciled with a Kerry nomination.

Considering that the primary turnouts have been abyssmal, I'd say that's a safe guess.

Sheesh. Talk about an understatement.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[sport]

I wonder how Kerry is going to explain his Green "friends" to his Union "friends"?


37 posted on 03/02/2004 2:46:49 AM PST by kcvl

If they are dumb enough to vote democrat, it won't matter what he says to explain it.

They do not have the ability tounderstand it.

Anything one says to a democrat is translated in their,I hate to use this term when describing a democrat, brain as, "I hate George Bush!"

One can say to them ,"The sun is shining." They hear,"I hate George Bush!"

[sport]

I wonder how Kerry is going to explain his Green "friends" to his Union "friends"?


37 posted on 03/02/2004 2:46:49 AM PST by kcvl

If they are dumb enough to vote democrat, it won't matter what he says to explain it.

They do not have the ability tounderstand it.

Anything one says to a democrat is translated in their,I hate to use this term when describing a democrat, brain as, "I hate George Bush!"

One can say to them ,"The sun is shining." They hear,"I hate George Bush!"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Greens, unionists, animal rights activists, feminists, race-baiters, etc. are first, last and always socialists.