Forget the polls: Kevin Drum worries about Kerry's strategy [View All]

[lancdem]

I just saw this on Kevin Drum's blog http://www.washingtonmonthly.com and it caught my attention. He's a progressive like Josh Marshall but was disturbed to read that article saying Kerry's running all those ads on the economy. Here's what he wrote:

It's fine to hammer away on domestic issues with specific target groups. It's fine for John Edwards to focus on the two Americas. But anyone who thinks the primary message of Kerry's campaign should be anything other than national security is just deluding themselves. To paraphrase James Carville, "It's 9/11, stupid."
In fact, it's a no-brainer: somehow Kerry has to convince people that he can be trusted with national security and Bush can't — and if he doesn't, he's going to lose. But I guess he still doesn't get that.
I'm finally beginning to think Mickey Kaus might be right: Kerry has spent too much time inside the liberal cocoon. It's going to cost him the election if he keeps it up.

Any thoughts?