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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: Ann Corrigan who started this subject9/7/2004 8:11:22 AM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (2) of 27181
 
Dismay and panic'
"The Labor Day Bush trend (which could, by the nature of swing voting, be reversible) has Democratic politicians between dismay and panic," New York Times columnist William Safire writes.
"As usual, they are crying foul at a veterans group's answer to [Sen. John] Kerry's blunder of running on his Vietnam War and anti-war record. As insiders shake up the staff, outsiders pre-emptively lay the basis for post-election excuses, positioning themselves for embittered told-you-so's," Mr. Safire says.
"Longtime Democratic pollsters have been calling journalists to note that the sophisticated 'internals' of the current polling were even more gloomy for the Kerry campaign, showing a two-to-one advantage for the president on the paramount issue of the war."
"The gibes from his own side caused Kerry to overreact. Instead of moving away from the Vietnam issue, which has been a real toothache for his campaign, he bit down on it. Uncharacteristically, he took the low road, overtly contrasting his war duty with Dick Cheney's draft deferments.
"That flailing-out was done more in anger than in calculation. Millions of Americans of draft age in the 1960s who are voters today were deferred from service by virtue of student status or fatherhood. They do not appreciate having their deferment attributed to lack of patriotism. Now Kerry has unnecessarily upset a lot of non-veteran swing voters."
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