February 1, 2004, S.C. Conundrum: the head or the heart?
South Carolina blogger Pem of Deep Language gives us this compendium of her thoughts and results of "candidate selectors" which all come down to, once again, a battle between "who does my heart say is the candidate who reflects my values" to plain old "which one of these guys is an ornery enough s.o.b. to beat the even worse s.o.b. occupying the White House now".
Pem suggests that she will likely go with her favorite among the four viable candidates (it looked like Kucinich did very well on one of her selectors, as did, interestingly, Al Sharpton). Well, a vote of conscience is always a vote to be proud of, even if its not the candidate that other people think may be the "one who can beat Bush". As I've said-- any of these four can beat Bush. And barring some wild card like a rapid economic boom or another September 11th, one of them likely will beat Bush. I'm not kidding.
Of course, then what? The Democratic President will instantly face a hostile, vicious, radical Tom deLay controlled Congress. My feeling is that dealing with such an animal will require a man of tremendous character and toughness (and my personal feeling-- based arbitrarily on my own feelings-- is that Edwards and Dean are such men).
I gotta tell you, much as I have openly stated my visceral dislike of Senator Kerry, I can certainly understand why one would support him (and when he gets the nomination, I will support him, albeit without liking him). He looks Presidential, his national experience as a high profile senator (albeit one without a lengthy record of legislative accomplishments) is tops among the four viables and certainly cannot be exploited by Bush (oh, except for his very liberal voting record), he is certainly careful in his rhetoric (too careful actually- like Bill Clinton before him, he tries to be everything to everyone, which hapens to be my problem with him), and, as he will tell you if you asked him about health care or farm policy, he is a decorated war hero, so Karl and Chimpy's attacks on his "toughness" and patriotism will likely go nowhere (such attacks are coming... don't worry. Say, did you know that Kerry's wife is Portuguese?)
That said, I'm kind of glad that Democrats are thinking pragmatically about re-taking the executive branch. We're not in a fair fight-- the name of the game is winning, so decisively that the Bushistas are out of cheatin' range (because they are counting on three strategies: fear of foreign swarthy menace, blind party loyalty, and out and out cheating and fraud). So... we actually have to put up the candidate who can best beat Bush.
I'm just not yet convinced that John Kerry is that guy. But enough other people may be convinced. We're about to find out, I s'ppose.
Comments
I still find Kerry sort of boring but he is getting better in articulating his message. I'm still trying to mentall work all this out for what I write myself on this, but it seems he quickly became the anti-Dean, sort of like someone who quickly gets a job in a company when a former "star" falls into disfavor. And he clearly wants it...and it seems as if the Clintons can live with HIM. The last issue of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball dealt with this issue of Bush hatred among Democrats, and how it is the overpowering common thread this year. Kerry happened to be the right guy at the right time.
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