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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62290)8/21/2004 11:20:40 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 
This is NOT something John Kerry wants to talk about.

We should not get so wound up that we forget that Kerry has been handed a golden opportunity by the swifites to clean his Vietnam slate in a way that could be politically masterful.

Kerry could deliver a Checkers-like speech to the Nation in which he (1) might answer a lot of questions, (2) ask forgiveness for past errors, esp. the Winter Soldiers crap, (3) ask that votes look at his Vietnam experience in the spirit of the times, and (4) suggest to voters that he is not now the kind of man he was then.

I think such a maneuver would right the tables for him and give him a substantial boost. Clinton did it with his Jennifer Flowers address. Kerry can do it, too.

Will he? Would it be believable? I don't know. There is a sense of pride and egotism I get from him which suggests that he is incapable of reaching out to the public in the humble way that such a tactic would require. He might be perceived as hypocritical, thereby having the tactic backfire on him.

Americans love cads who beg for forgiveness and who meet their failures and foibles head on. It was one of the secrets to Clinton's success.

It seems that his campaign, by going to the FEC and suggesting that the book be banned, has decided to hunker down and fight. If so, Kerry will have lost a golden opportunity, IMO.
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