Kerry is running toward the center. Is that f-ing okay with you? [View All]

[Colin Ex]

So I flew back from LBN, and boy are my arms tired...

I read the thread in there about Kerry's statement (paraphrased headline: I MIGHT APPOINT PRO-LIFE JUDGES AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T REALLY ANAL) and watched a few people flip out and kvetch about real democrats and so on. To them, I have some really bad, bad news.

http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ecorder/PLS200R1.html <--- That's a website from one of those fancy-dancy university professors (obviously a tool of PNAC)

Please go to that link and read the third item from the bottom. For those of you too lazy to click, allow me to reproduce it for you.

"In the general election, candidates must win over the moderate voter."

Read that again so you understand it.

Despite what Michael Moore may have told you in his books, most Americans aren't interested in electing someone they look at as an extremist. (It can be argued that one of the central reasons Dubya's had any success at all is that he's been able to play off as not a right-wing stupid asshole. Not the point, though.) Consequently, candidates battle over the roughly 20% of the voters located in the middle, while the 80% that makes up party bases does it's thing in every election and really only serves to decide the nominee. (Note - I don't have a fancy-dancy university professor link for that, but take my word for it, or ask James Carville about it sometime.)

So, the point is this: John Kerry is going to run toward the center so he doesn't lose. You may not agree with some of the stuff he says during his run toward the center. I would remind you of this:
1) He's trying to appeal to the center, not to you because you're probably part of the 80% that makes up both party bases
2) If John Kerry did not run toward the center the democratic party would get fucking smashed in the general election.
3) If you agree with EVERYTHING a politician says and you are not that politician, you are probably a cyborg with a remote control.

Just thought that it was important to drive that shit home. Especially the part about cyborgs.

-C