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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: AuBug who wrote (8262)9/7/2004 11:21:00 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran   of 27181
 
LOSING TO THE 800-LB GORILLA: One of the reasons this campaign is going to get even uglier is because John Kerry is currently sitting in a pretty tight box right now.

Early on the Kerry campaign made the (correct) strategic assessment that that national security was the 800-lb gorilla of this election - one they couldn't go around but had to try and deal with.

The problem, of course, is that given Kerry's record on national security in the United States Senate, the only thing the campaign could use to address the issue was Kerry's service in Vietnam thirty-five years ago.

The result is that we now have one candidate running a campaign based on issues and another running a campaign based on a four -month piece of his biography when he was twenty-five years old. This has led to the bizarre, disjointed dialogue we've seen in the past few months which has gone something like this:

Bush: "After 9/11 national security is a paramount concern to our republic.We must take the fight to the terrorists where they are and not wait to be forced to fight them at home."

Kerry: "I served two tours of duty in Vietnam."

Cheney: "Senator Kerry's 20-year voting record shows poor national security judgment."

Kerry: "Stop questioning my patriotism."

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