This Isn't 2004, Kerry's Spin Isn't Gospel [View All]

[tritsofme]

Its seems like a lot of people around here think that they can just repeat the spin Kerry is saying about this whole botched episode and it will go away. That's what we did things around here when Kerry made a gaffe in 2004, and it certainly didn't work out too well. The tortured logic in watching people go on for pages on why Kerry really did vote the $87 billion before he voted against it only seemed to prove the point of his detractors further.

If Kerry kept his mouth shut we wouldn't even be talking about this right now. Kerry could have spun this a 1000 different ways that wouldn't have created controversy, he picked the one that hurts Democrats most. My sentiments lie with that unnamed Democratic congressman that said, "I guess Kerry wasn't content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too"

It doesn't matter what he meant to say, it doesn't matter what point he was trying to make, it doesn't matter if you are more clever than the rest of the general public and understand what he meant. He made a gaffe, and it put us back on the defensive.

Its pure naiveté to claim that this comment helps Democrats in any way, and I think that is what pisses me off the most about this situation.

This isn't going to move the discussion to an unpopular war in Iraq, the corpmedia has already successfully moved the discussion towards "the troops". No one likes this war, but everyone loves "the troops." Now the GOP can move discussion away from their unpopular war and onto "the troops" that the big bad Democrats think are a bunch of foolish idiots for joining up.

The GOP won this news cycle, and there aren't very many left before voters head to the polls.

It is foolish to waste time defending this Kerry gaffe, and Democrats should stop doing it, respond by saying "I don't know what he was thinking, now this is our plan for America"

Change the subject, move on.