Liberal Oasis: "Kerry's Better Off, and So Are We."

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/110903.htm#111203

Sen. John Kerry may be taking some lumps after two staffers resigned following the firing of Kerry’s campaign manager Jim Jordan. But he’s better off without them, and anyone else who may follow them out of the door.

Why? Because winning campaigns need die-hard, hard-working loyalists, not selfish, short-sighted careerists. LiberalOasis can’t know enough about the inner-workings of the Kerry campaign to know whether Jordan should have been let go.

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(One expects the media to make too much of such things, but for the NY Times to make the Jordan firing front page news was particularly ridiculous. And NBC Nightly News, which has offered little in substantive primary coverage, went out of its way last night to say the campaign “appears to be in chaos.”

Hell, write a letter to both and demand real coverage of issues that does readers a service.) Apparently, some Kerry staffers think they know better, and handled the situation by anonymously disparaging Kerry on petty matters to the AP and NY Times.

Which shows that they are not committed to their candidate. The media will interpret that as reflecting poorly on Kerry, but more likely, it reflects poorly on this strain of self-defeating Beltway Dem.

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[AP]

1. Goood points about NYT and ABC.

And remember, NYT owns the Boston Globe, which has treated Kerry horribly.

[Bombtrack]

11. Yeah, Goodman and Vennochi can be real airheads

They don't ever strike me as really creative or open-minded liberals. Although I don't read them on a consistent basis

Of course they're better than Jeff Jacoby, that's going without saying, knee-jerk liberals are better than knee-jerk right-wingers

[9119495]

2. Agreed...and I'm a Dean supporter

He made some changes. So what? Other candidates, including Dean may have to do this at some point. It is premature to say Kerry is finished--especially over this.

[emulatorloo]

3. Yesterday was Chicken Little Day at DU

I was surprised to see so many "The Sky Is Falling" type posts over what sound to me like pretty positive shake-ups in the Kerry campaign. Sounds like the new team is great.

Am still undecided between the two, but saw Kerry on Monday and Dean on Tuesday. They were the opposite of how many have described them here at DU -- Kerry was passionate and on fire as he talked about Veterans Issues, Dean cool and analytical as he talked about Halliburton et al. Personally I was glad to see that kind of range from both of them.

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[Octafish]

4. Excellent thread. Real supporters don't jump off with the rats.

If the ship takes on a little water, they start to bail. And all the while they keep rowing, rowing, rowing...

Thanks to the Corporate Media built to support the Reich Wing, people have gotten a very lousy portrait of the kind of leader Kerry is. Perhaps his new team will help get the message out that he is the best qualified person to serve as President of the United States.

[Bandit]

9. Rowing the ship ~ LOL

I'm sorry to laugh because I know your point was serious but I couldn't help it. The image of someone trying to row a ship is just too funny. You may row a boat but never a ship.

[Octafish]

14. Laugh while you can. Ever hear of a Trireme?

It's what passed for ships in the old days.



LOL. You're right, though, Bandit. I should have said boat.

BTW: Google combos of Richard Perle, Adnan Khashoggi, Trireme Partnerships, Seymour Hersh for some eye opening results of our slavish future under the BFEE.

[phillybri]

5. Kick

:kick:

[tsipple]

6. Well, Wait a Minute

It's not exactly good news that three top staffers, including your campaign manager, are gone 68 days before the Iowa Caucuses.

It's not the end of the world, but "better off without them"? Way too early to decide that. And of course it's front page news. I don't question the news judgement there. If I were an editor I'd do the same thing.

Airlines don't do well when their employees are pissed at management. Why are political campaigns -- or any other organization -- different?

Hopefully Mary Beth Cahill will be able to quickly heal the schism and get on with a new approach.

[Larkspur]

7. Kerry's changes only matter if they become effective in helping refloat

his campaign.

The problem is we don't know if his new staff are any good and they better be quick on their feet. Dean made his staff changes early this year, and they paid off big time. Dean is now building more momentum. Kerry has yet to find it.

[blm]

8. Of course, the media features doom for Kerry. They've been working towards

that goal for almost two years now.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. What Kerry needs now

is someone who will drum up grassroots support and make him mingle with the common folks more.

The only candidates currently attracting a lot of grassroots volunteers are Dean, Kucinich, and Clark.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

12. Jordan and his buddies will never work in a major campaign again

They are too disloyal and "chatty". No politican in their right mind would trust them to run their campaigns.

[Octafish]

15. Lots of weird stuff around that guy and his team.

Remember when Sen. Kerry, Jordan, and Lahane (comm dir) were at lunch in San Francisco? Someone broke into Lahane's SUV, parked on a street, and stole his laptop with all his campaign info. What a coincidence.

[Padraig18]

13. I honestly hope JK survives this.

He is a brilliant critic of our true enemy, the * administration; when he is 'on message', no one does it better, and our party *needs* another strong voice to keep speaking out against *.

I am a Dean supporter, but that has to do with the positives I see in Gov. Dean, not the negatives I see in Sen. Kerry.

Take a deep breath, Senator, and go after * again. :)