I wish I could take credit for that description but someone once said that of Newt Gingrich and I thought it applied.
Yes, Kerry was stupid enough to say that (and more than once). He was a terrrible candidate and I can't believe Dems were foolish enough to nominate him. Romney is ten times worse of a candidate but the difference there is that he was STILL the best the Repubs had (next to Huntsman who was a non-starter due to being sane) so nominating him made sense. But we actually had a few good candidates to choose from. Us letting Kerry be our nominee when Howard Dean and Wesley Clark were just standing RIGHT THERE was absolute foolishness on the Dems' part. Clark especially would have crushed Bush in the general election and would not have allowed himself to be swiftboated.
I LOVE Al Gore but how stupid were we to nominate ANOTHER stiff and boring guy against Bush? He was just as rich as Bush so we couldn't make that an issue. And he voted for the Iraq war so that advantage was dust. And he was even in Skull and Bones in college so we couldn't even get the crazy conspiracy theorists behind us. It was a choice between the rich, well-connected, gaffe machine who supported the war in Iraq... and the OTHER rich, well-connected gaffe machine who supported the war in Iraq.
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Yes, Kerry was stupid enough to say that (and more than once). He was a terrrible candidate and I can't believe Dems were foolish enough to nominate him. Romney is ten times worse of a candidate but the difference there is that he was STILL the best the Repubs had (next to Huntsman who was a non-starter due to being sane) so nominating him made sense. But we actually had a few good candidates to choose from. Us letting Kerry be our nominee when Howard Dean and Wesley Clark were just standing RIGHT THERE was absolute foolishness on the Dems' part. Clark especially would have crushed Bush in the general election and would not have allowed himself to be swiftboated.
I LOVE Al Gore but how stupid were we to nominate ANOTHER stiff and boring guy against Bush? He was just as rich as Bush so we couldn't make that an issue. And he voted for the Iraq war so that advantage was dust. And he was even in Skull and Bones in college so we couldn't even get the crazy conspiracy theorists behind us. It was a choice between the rich, well-connected, gaffe machine who supported the war in Iraq... and the OTHER rich, well-connected gaffe machine who supported the war in Iraq.