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August 23, 2004

John Kerry's Political Epitaph

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I believe that John Kerry's political epitaph may have been penned today by Marius of The Rostra:

So on the same day, John Kerry is telling us that he agrees that the use of force in Iraq was justified, and that he believes the war was unnecessary and entirely optional. Which is it? The frightening thing is this: we cannot and do not know the answer. There is nothing principled about it. The only principle is his own immediate political concern. Luckily for us, given his inability to mask his contradictions, he is a bad politician. A poor sophist.

I think that a putative President Kerry would be as disastrous for this country as President Carter's term was (and in much the same way), although without the consolation that Carter at least was an intelligent and honorable, though deeply misguided, man. Kerry seems to be campaigning on the honor and trustworthiness of the Clinton presidency, the dynamic public persona of the Dukakis campaign, and the foreign policy expertise of the Carter presidency.

While a Kerry presidency would not make me leave the country, it would certainly make me thoroughly reevaluate the value of working downtown in large cities. But I'm not really worried: Kerry is going to lose by a stunning margin.