November 04, 2004
What she said
Arianna says what I was trying to say earlier, only she says it better.
The fixation on undecided voters turned a campaign that should have been about big ideas, big decisions, and the very, very big differences between the worldviews of John Kerry and George Bush - both on national security and domestic priorities - into a narrow trench war fought over ludicrous non-issues like whether Kerry had bled enough to warrant a Purple Heart.Posted by Norwood at November 4, 2004 03:04 PMThis timid, spineless, walking-on-eggshells strategy - with no central theme or moral vision - played right into the hands of the Bush-Cheney team's portrayal of Kerry as an unprincipled, equivocating flip-flopper who, in a time of war and national unease, stood for nothing other than his desire to become president.
......Unless the Democratic Party wants to become a permanent minority party, there is no alternative but to return to the idealism, boldness and generosity of spirit that marked the presidencies of FDR and JFK and the short-lived presidential campaign of Bobby Kennedy.
Otherwise, the Republicans will continue their winning ways, convincing tens of millions of hard working Americans to vote for them even as they cut their services and send their children off to die in an unjust war.
