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Oct. 29th, 2004 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantRight. You're going to get one of these once a day between now and Tuesday. They're mostly directed at my friends who are feeling mopish about the potential for a Kerry victory.
Today, I've got an Al Giordano essay for you. Al is one smart cookie. He predicted Kerry's victory in Iowa. He knows Kerry and Kerry's people really well. He is not randomly making stuff up to make himself feel better.
See, here's the deal. Kerry fits nicely into the frame of "another boring liberal from Massachusetts." If you want to take the lazy way out, you just recycle all the Dukakis stories and you've got yourself a news cycle. Now, I liked Dukakis -- but Kerry is simply a tougher candidate. He knows what it means to be on the national stage. He is the guy who refused to let go of the BCCI scandal, he's the guy who defeated an incredible popular William Weld in his last election, he's the guy who wins.
If Kerry wasn't charismatic -- if he wasn't good at what he does -- Nixon wouldn't have singled him out for special attention in the 70s. Nothing's changed. The media frame is wrong. Kerry is not Dukakis.
Read Al's piece. More tomorrow.
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Date: 2004-10-29 05:29 pm (UTC)Let's be honest. Carson is an embarrassment to even the most moderate Democrat. He savages Coburn for being against the Patriot Act (one of Coburn's very few virtues) and, well, everyone should know the list by now. On the other side, Coburn is a nut, an annoyance even to the hardline Republicans because of, I dunno what you'd call it, his literalist interpretation of old-school conservatism. (Which I sometimes have some sympathy for, honestly, since at least he's consistent about it, but still. Nut.)
As far as numbers, last I knew they were still polling well within the margin of error. Neither is incumbent to the senate seat and both held the same freakin' house seat serially, so I couldn't begin to guess where it'll wind up. Me, I'm trying to decide whether to vote for the independent, who believes the government put a radio receiver in her head in the 70s.
-R