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How stupid are Americans?
I think the answer is:
As dumb as we wanna be.
Twelve years ago, Bill Clinton realized he couldn’t get a majority to vote for him as a Democrat. So he pretended to be a Republican. He co-opted the Republican position on practically every issue. He left poor President Bush Sr. with nothing to say except “me too.”
And Bush was the incumbent.
Clinton’s message back then was: Bush is a complete failure, and I’m going to make everything better by following exactly the same policies.
This year, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” because the economy is doing great, so Democrats can’t get any leverage whining about that.
No, this year it’s the war.
And Kerry is stealing a page from the Clinton election handbook by focusing on the exact issue where the Republicans have him beat.
He’s not pulling a Howard Dean and raving about pulling our troops out.
No, he’s talking like Clinton: Bush has done a terrible, terrible job. Elect me and I’ll do a lot better with this war on terror. And you know how I’ll do it? By doing every single thing that President Bush has done. Only I would have done it sooner and better.
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I think the answer is:
As dumb as we wanna be.
Twelve years ago, Bill Clinton realized he couldn’t get a majority to vote for him as a Democrat. So he pretended to be a Republican. He co-opted the Republican position on practically every issue. He left poor President Bush Sr. with nothing to say except “me too.”
And Bush was the incumbent.
Clinton’s message back then was: Bush is a complete failure, and I’m going to make everything better by following exactly the same policies.
This year, it’s not “the economy, stupid,” because the economy is doing great, so Democrats can’t get any leverage whining about that.
No, this year it’s the war.
And Kerry is stealing a page from the Clinton election handbook by focusing on the exact issue where the Republicans have him beat.
He’s not pulling a Howard Dean and raving about pulling our troops out.
No, he’s talking like Clinton: Bush has done a terrible, terrible job. Elect me and I’ll do a lot better with this war on terror. And you know how I’ll do it? By doing every single thing that President Bush has done. Only I would have done it sooner and better.
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He ends with
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The Clinton presidency weakened America’s military drastically.
And Kerry consistently voted to weaken it even more than Clinton wanted to.
We have a war going on. Anybody who’s serious about winning it cannot consider, even for a moment, voting for Kerry. No other issue compares to that one.
We can’t afford to be stupid this year.
And Kerry consistently voted to weaken it even more than Clinton wanted to.
We have a war going on. Anybody who’s serious about winning it cannot consider, even for a moment, voting for Kerry. No other issue compares to that one.
We can’t afford to be stupid this year.
This should be worth commenting on.
