I don't think so, Senator Kerry
Over here is the BBC iteration on John Kerry's dreadful appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday. The headline reads: "Kerry Blames defeat on bin Laden." The first two paragraphs:
I don't think so. Voters were poised for more than a year to consider a candidate other than Bush. They were restless. The deciding issue in the race was Kerry's unsuitability to be president. It wasn't that voters this time around wanted to get rid of Bush. It was that they were willing to consider someone else. They didn't get an opposing candidate who had a workable combination of leadership gifts, one with a personality, for instance.
Kerry was a horrible candidate, an unrelentingly negative, boorish, transparently phony snot.
The election was a close one in some respects, but I basically closed-up shop at the end of September, just not willing to pay that much attention to it again until the voting was over with. I was more than confident that Bush would win. There was simply no way that when the day was done Americans were going to make Kerry president.
And they are not going to respect him for his latest attempt at continuing his campaign after the election, blowing off his cakehole at every opportunity as if he was still running.
Bush won the election. Kerry should take a quick peek over at Al Gore to see what happens when an also-ran starts talking to himself in the mirror. And Gore had the advantage over Kerry of actually showing more class after the 2000 election than Kerry has after this last one.
US Democratic Senator John Kerry says a video message from Osama Bin Laden sealed his defeat in a presidential race dominated by the 9/11 attacks.Here's my response to Kerry's "bin Laden did me in" theory, from a Usenet post earlier this afternoon:
Mr Kerry told NBC TV his opinion poll lead over President George W Bush fell away after the tape was broadcast.
I don't think so. Voters were poised for more than a year to consider a candidate other than Bush. They were restless. The deciding issue in the race was Kerry's unsuitability to be president. It wasn't that voters this time around wanted to get rid of Bush. It was that they were willing to consider someone else. They didn't get an opposing candidate who had a workable combination of leadership gifts, one with a personality, for instance.
Kerry was a horrible candidate, an unrelentingly negative, boorish, transparently phony snot.
The election was a close one in some respects, but I basically closed-up shop at the end of September, just not willing to pay that much attention to it again until the voting was over with. I was more than confident that Bush would win. There was simply no way that when the day was done Americans were going to make Kerry president.
And they are not going to respect him for his latest attempt at continuing his campaign after the election, blowing off his cakehole at every opportunity as if he was still running.
Bush won the election. Kerry should take a quick peek over at Al Gore to see what happens when an also-ran starts talking to himself in the mirror. And Gore had the advantage over Kerry of actually showing more class after the 2000 election than Kerry has after this last one.
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