"Is it the way I look? The way I sound?"
This is how you look, you sound like a wuss.
Posted on 01/04/2005 10:00:53 PM PST by kattracks
As the new year begins with ritual reflection and resolution, Democrats are consumed with angst, ennui and uncertainty.Was it the values thing that caused them to lose, or were they too weak on terrorism? Was it something in the way their candidate moved? Sen. John F. Kerry himself posed such questions recently during a Newsweek interview:
"The pundits have never liked me," Kerry said to the reporter. "Is it the way I look? The way I sound?"
The answer to all of the above is, in a word, yes. It was the values thing; it was terrorism; and it was the way Kerry looked and talked - all combined, but none singly.
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Kerry and the Democratic Party weren't viewed as either "weak on values" or "weak on terrorism," but were perceived as weak on values and therefore weak on terrorism. In the real world - as opposed to one slapped together by pollsters and electoral cartographers - one doesn't separate core values from the goals one seeks to achieve.
Yes, clearly, Americans are deeply concerned about terrorism and security. And, yes, Americans are deeply concerned about values, though those values are not necessarily measured in terms of specific issues such as abortion rights and same-sex marriage. The search for values runs far deeper than the referendum du jour.
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This is where Kerry's persona came into play. Was it the way he looked? The way he talked? Yes and yes, which poses its own little mystery. In nearly every way, John Kerry seemed born to the presidency. Straight out of central casting, he had the right looks, the right resume, the Purple Hearts.
Everything but "it." The je ne sais quoi of love and politics. We have a hard time defining "it," whateveritis - warmth, humility, sincerity? - but we know when it's absent.
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By his attempts to please all - to take "four sides of every issue," as one of his advisers put it - Kerry convinced voters that he didn't even trust himself.
How can you trust a guy who takes four sides on every issue? Jean Francois Cheri gave weasels a whole new meaning!
Boy, did it ever. Yet he blames his loss on the pundits never liking him...that's the sad part.
My response was, "Diana, now you're learning!"
That Electras album from the early 1960s that he bragged about contained a brief bio factoid that claimed John Kerry was from Oslo. He's a long time liar.
Kerry is a self centered, ego run socialists
"Is it the way I look? The way I sound?"
This is how you look, you sound like a wuss.
Kerry reminded me of Scott Peterson! No values, no morals,no integrity,! Everything that came out of Lurch's mouth was a lie!From his going to church ,with all the cameras there to his hunting trip for geese. It was all such a preconcieved farce, and the American people thank God, could see through it all!
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