Be Seeing You,
Chris
Kerry is moving left and becoming more and more anti-war because thats where 90% of his base is.
I don't know what it is about that phrase, but every time I read it, I dissolve in a fit of giggles.
Anyway, to the issue at hand...it's no surprise that Kerry's flip-flopping over the Iraq war and the war on terror as a whole. If that man has a spine, it isn't made of bone; it's comprised of frickin' windsocks.
Kerry hasn't changed at all. He has finally revealed himself as the anti-war, foreign nation loving pacifist that he has always been. What you're seeing now is the true sKerry. If by some miracle, he were elected, I think he would pull our troops out of Iraq.
because he HAS to.
btw - have you seen "GitS2: Innocence" yet?
I do not think it is Nader. Do not dismiss what I am about to write. Kerry no longer believes he is going to win. He has looked at his own internal numbers and realizes he cannot make the majority of americans like him enough to make him president. He just wants to make sure that diehard democrats, the unions, inner-city blacks, and ignorant masses at least show up for something. He does not want to be an encyclopedia (webpedia) entry on the same page with Dukakis, Mondale, and Dole.
He knows he IS the Bob Dole of the Democrats. But he does not want to be humiliated.
Kerry's advisors are not doing this in order to win. They have given up. Now they are trying to loot the left-wingers so that they can pocket a large percentage of their money when Bush is re-elected--just like Joe Trippi did with Howard Dean. The DU people open their wallets as long as the Dems talk about Bush being AWOL, the reinstitution of the draft, and Halliburton.
Notice that the Kerry campaign is talking about all three of those things right now--even running ads on Halliburton.
Right-wingers should take note, because our people do this all the time.
I've got one word for that post;
BINGO!
Nostalgia. Maybe he still has a thing for Hanoi Jane.
Normally Democrats run to the left during the primary and go back toward the middle as the election proceeds.
Kerry couldn't do that because Dean had seized the left in the public eye. Kerry is, actually far more leftist than Dean, going by their records, but the media didn't play it that way and the voters weren't given that picture by the presstitutes.
So Kerry won the nomination by pretending to be a moderate. Now his leftist base is getting very restless, so he has to move further left. That will turn off all the undecideds and the moderate Democrats.
He has allowed his whole campaign to be run back*sswards.
I don't think Nader is that relevant to this election. The only time I see Nader's name mentioned is when he is being disqualified from another state's ballot. I haven't seen one genuine Nader supporter, except for Bush supporters who want him to suck votes from Kerry.
I think the reason Kerry is going left is that he hasn't shored up his base. His assumption going into the convention was that union members, blacks, women, minorities, teachers, the media, and the anti-war crowd were automatically going to vote for him.
With 40% of the electorate in the bag, he ran on his Vietnam record, thinking that was the John Kerry that would get the most votes from the other 60% of the country. Then the Swiftboat Vets blew up in his face, and the Bush AWOL story got quagmired in Rathergate.
Now his base is restless and he has to shore them up. Plus that's where the money is. Kerry has all the money he can get for his campaign, but the 527's fill their coffers from Michael Moore conspiracy theories about AWOL and Halliburton.
Chris: as far as I'm concerned, you're always allowed to post vanities, as your comments are ever-perceptive.
I think Kerry is trying to be Clintonian by working both sides of the aisle and expecting everyone to buy into him. Unfortunately for Kerry he has neither Clinton's charisma nor his massive spin team necessary to keep the ruse alive.
I think another reason he's doing this is Lurch thought he could basically "me too" the war and set himself apart on the economy, but that issue is evaporating as the recovery turns into an expansion. So, the only major issue left to distinguish himself from Bush is the war.