"Save The Republicans, Vote For Kerry"
From a letter to Andrew Sullvan, posted on his blog, "a classical conservative who feels completely abandoned in this campaign by the Republican platform" has a pretty good idea:
Have you ever thought a Kerry election might actually save the party from the Fundamentalist Idealism that plagues the current administration? I think a witty slogan on your site might be: Save the Republicans, Vote for Kerry. Maybe a Kerry election will force the Republican brass to see they can no longer win national elections catering to their bigoted and close minded base, and thereby force them to adopt a more Reaganite approach to economic policy as well as finally dismissing its attacks on certain groups to enrage and engage this base.
Also, let's not forget, if Kerry gets elected, Hillary's Executive aspirations are over. Nobody in the world is going to want to deal with her ass in 2012.
Kerry? "Charles Nelson Reilly to block!"
By the way, if Kerry gets elected, what does the Democratic party learn about THEIR "bigoted and close minded base"? Someone (Sully?) I forget who, made the point over the weekend: If Kerry get's elected, he INSTANTLY becomes Jimmy Carter, the guy the people turned to simply to oust the incumbent. While Kerry may not share Jimmy's enthusiasm for writing his feelings of malaise on legal pad, he'll certainly find himself similarly unbeholden to the principles of his own party.
Doncha just love elections?
Cridland at October 18, 2004 5:18 PM