March 27, 2006

Why Kerry Lost

The Smoking Gun has his list of his demands for hotels he used during the campaign.

Notable; no celery and no tomato allowed in his room. Which, I'm sure each of you immediately grasped, means no bloody marys.

I figure anyone who runs for President had best be sloshed by 10 AM during the campaign, so he was at a serious disadvantage. Unless he was having mimosas.

Posted by Walter at March 27, 2006 07:03 PM
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kerry lost cause Bush triangulates

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Posted by: mel at March 29, 2006 05:30 PM

He does triangulate, although I don't know how effective that is in terms of winning votes. It's a strategy he may have learned by observing his predecessor, who did things like passing welfare reform.

I believe a president has a much better chance of enacting reforms when he plays against his own party ideology. A Republican would have had more trouble passing welfare reform, a Democrat probably wouldn't have gotten the education funding and unemployment benefits Bush has.

Posted by: Walter at March 30, 2006 09:38 AM