Reply #15: That is Kerry's tragedy [View All]

[Voltaire99]

He's a "grown up" now, with a grown up pol's baggage of compromises and spent idealism.

In any case, Kerry already has a long way to go to interest youth in him. It would be a surmountable challenge if he were right on Iraq; then he'd primarily have to overcome a leaden personal style. There's no evidence that the youngest voters are as bothered as late Gen X and Boomers by his corporate-friendly GOP-lite economic policies.

But being wrong on the greatest issue of your day--this illegal, immoral, and fruitless invasion--that's something youth won't forgive. Not when it's youth that's staring down the barrel of a draft.

Get wise, John. Time's running out. Any you need a lot more friends than you have right now, my boy.