Good post and I see I got you to think.
Here's my take - all the bashing both ways just turns off voters.
Go for the real issues. If Kerry JUST concentrated every message on a policy, domestic, international, economic, tax, health care, etc.,etc., etc., I think he would win.
So far I don't see it. So far, if there is a tiny opening, the attack dogs go at it on both sides.
Bush is a given and I think there is less chance for change, whether you like his team or not, and I have feelings that are very mixed.
However, the polls show Kerry not making much progress except when he acts more like Edwards. I don't begrudge him things he did 30 years ago but he should come out and say this and his team should not be spending time on whether Bush was AWOL or was drunk 30 years ago.
The American people see it as hyporcritical and attack an institution. Bush is still the President and still entitled, ipso facto, to a certain level of respect. I would say the same thing for Clinton and almost anyone else, other than Nixon.
On these boards, you see extremists on both ends, people who post their "hatred" for one side or the other. Fortunately, most of us are somewhere in the middle and looking for real policies and programs that will add up and make sense. |
