Reply #20: Exciting Candidate [View All]

[dreissig]

The problem with Kerry isn't only that he's boring, it's that he's a weakling. He didn't show any backbone on the IWR vote because he was afraid a No vote would remind voters of his antiwar background.

Eugene McCarthy was personally not very exciting. I used to wonder how got elected in the first place. But he created a stir when he declared himself a candidate for president opposing the Vietnam war. Unfortunately, the nomination went to the energetic Hubert Humphrey, who erroneously considered the anti-war Left a locked-in constituency. He was wrong about that.

John Kerry combines the personal blandness of Eugene McCarthy with the political tin ear of Hubert Humphrey. It's a surefire formula for defeat in November. I question the political judgement of the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire. We are heading towards a repeat of 1968.