Less Kerry means more hatred?

Jeff Jarvis notes that the Democrats are "not running their campaign for John Kerry. They are running only against George Bush."

While many Democrats would like to see more of Kerry, a stubborn, recurrent problem is Kerry's history of making himself his own worst enemy. He just keeps putting his foot in it. "Out of sight, out of mind," however, is not a good election year strategy, and the fact is that much of the Democratic base runs on hatred of Bush....

So Bush-as-villain seems to be the default position, like it or not. I don't think it will resonate well with the voters, because Bush hatred is almost as tired as it is vicious, and if it continues in this direction, Bush may become a sympathetic figure.

History shows that Americans can get very tired of being told their president is a villain.

posted by Eric on 07.01.04 at 11:19 AM





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Watergate has 84 votes now, but Monica Lewinsky has 152. I still don't see my ad here for President Nixon, Agnew, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman. Hmmm....

I hear ya. I got tired of hearing that Clinton was a villain. Why can't George do it with an intern so we can impeach him? The Seventh Commandment just isn't important enough, I guess.

SixFootPole   ·  July 1, 2004 09:03 PM

If I were George I'd be doing it all the time with Condi. She turns me on.

Anyway... ...I don't see how Kerry can conceivably win. What's he got going for him? What's his appeal? To who? I'm not too surprised that this campaign is merely anti-Bush. How did Kerry ever get the nomination in the first place? I've never been able to figure it out. None of the Democrats I know (and most of the people I know outside the blogosphere are Democrats) voted for him in the primary. Hmmm....

I wish Nixon was still President. I wish the Watergate hearings were still going on. Those were the good old days. The _style_!

I had hope for Condi myself, back in the days when I was a moderate Democrat growing to trust my Republican President in a time of war. The romance is over...

SixFootPole   ·  July 2, 2004 05:37 PM


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