Is it Kaine's blog?

[Mass]

If yes, what is it with Kaine and Kerry? This is the second time Kaine does something like that and this is really bothering for this Democrat from MA. Nobody asks Kaine to endorse Kerry for anything, but how is it going to help Kaine to win?

http://www.raisingkaine.com/blog/?p=190

EDIT: OK apparently this is not Kaine's blog, but this blog is not going to help Kaine, that is for sure.

[Totally Committed]

1. As another Democrat from Mass...

I read it and thought he made some very good points.

There is a lot of righteous anger and indignation over the way the last election was handled. Kerry's concession that came only hours after the last vote had been cast is only one of them. Kaine has the right to be as outraged, disappointed, disgusted, and fed up to the teeth as the rest of us.

This is a Party, at present, which is (except for Boxer, and most of the Congressional Black Caucus), completely devoid of guts, backbone, balls... whatever. Kerry and the rest are all too willing to make "concessions" which amount to collusion with the Bush agenda for America. I disagree bitterly with that agenda, and so does Kaine, evidently.

TC

[Mass]

2. As I said this is not Kaine's blog

but a simple blogger without links to Kaine, just trying to promote him.

This said, Kaine is a very moderate Democrat that has no real problem with Bush's agenda. This is not the point.

I know you have problem with Kerry (though I fundementally disagree with you), but read about Kaine and you will learn that he is not Boxer.

[demnan]

3. I'm sorry, but I agree whole-heartedly with the blogger

and you can be a moderate Democrat and still have issues with Kerry's campaign. Kerry is a good man, a sincere man, but he ran a lousy campaign from the convention on and his supporters are going to have to accept that fact because it's true. Believe me, I'm as sorry as anybody that Kerry isn't President, but part of the blame must fall on him.

[rogue emissary]

4. Looks like he was inspired by this article.

Raising Kaine
A Virginia gubernatorial candidate tries to teach Democrats how to attract religious voters.
By Rob Garver
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9376

Kaine, who spoke to me by phone after attending a pair of Palm Sunday services at Baptist churches in Petersburg, Virginia, says that his own strong Catholic faith was his inspiration for entering politics, and that he believes Democrats in general have done a poor job of reaching out to religious Americans.

. . .

We do better by doing two things, he says. One, by being authentically who we are as candidates. Candidates who feel comfortable talking about their hobbies and their family, but dont feel comfortable talking about whats central to their lives -- there is just something about that that lacks authenticity. Whatever your religious tradition is, if its important to you and you don't feel comfortable talking about it, you end up coming across as insincere.

. . .

I think that John Kerry demonstrated much more comfort talking about windsurfing and hockey than he did talking about his beliefs, says Kaine, admitting that he does have a limited amount of sympathy for the Massachusetts senators reticence.

. . .

In addition to actively talking about their own faith, Kaine says, Democrats need to temper their comments about other peoples faith.

The second thing that Democrats have to do better on is not attacking the religious right, he said. I think that has been a standard bogeyman that Democrats have often used in campaigns, including campaigns in Virginia. If somebody advances an idea or position thats wrong, then attack them for having a bad idea. But they are not wrong because they are religious.

When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, Well, I guess they are not interested in me. And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party.

It's disappointing he's using GOP talking points and thinks going after Pat Robertson is a mistake.

[redsoxdem]

5. Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine is the best chance Virginia has to keep the governor's seat now occupied by Mark Warner. It's funny that liberal bloggers are questioning Tim Kaine's loyalty to party principles, when Mark Warner has shown himself to be a Republican in Democratic Party clothes. Just because Kaine's father-in-law is a former Republican governor. Kaine's father-in-law was more moderate than some of the racists Democratic governors that Virginia had before him. Kaine, unless he has sidetracked, has shown more spine than Warner ever has when it comes to capital punishment issues. Warner has allowed executions while he has been governor. Kaine is against capital punishment. If the articles in The New York Times today about the incompetence at the Virginia Crime Lab concerning DNA tests and capital punishment cases doesn't convince convince liberals to vote for Tim Kaine nothing will.