Morris: Bush Will Win
Friday, October 29th, 2004I’m not a big fan of Dick Morris. Anyone who was involved in the election of Bill Clinton to the Presidency is very suspect in my mind. However, he published an article today that makes a lot of sense. Here’s an excerpt:
John Kerry was on the verge of moving out to a victory after the third debate. Taking advantage of its pre-ordained focus on domestic issues, he had finally, finally swung the debate back to the issues on which he has — and has always had — a lead: domestic policy. Next he got a short-term bounce from Bill Clinton’s presence on the campaign trail and seemed on his way to closing the Bush lead.
Then came the “disappearing explosives” story. Kerry’s handlers, tacticians to the last, disregarded the needs of basic strategy and hopped on the issue with all four feet, running a TV ad lambasting Bush for losing the weapons after the invasion.
Strategically, this flawed decision assured that the final week of the campaign would focus on the areas of Bush’s strength and Kerry’s weakness: Iraq and terrorism. Tactically, it tied the electorate’s confidence in John Kerry to the mystery of what actually happened in an ammo dump in the desert 18 months ago.
Then it began to explode in Kerry’s face. Soon we heard that there were only three tons of explosives . . . and they weren’t there when we occupied the dump . . . and they were removed by the Russians before we got there . . . and, perhaps, there are satellite photos to prove it.
All of a sudden, Kerry seems just not ready for prime time.
Read the entire thing. However, please keep in mind that regardless of what he says, you still need to go to the polls on Tuesday and cast your vote for President Bush. The scenario that Morris describes here will not happen if you do not go out and vote.
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October 29th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
I don’t know how many of these conservative blogs are posting this same faded story, but it talks about Kerry as if he’s already lost the election. Seeing as it’s a statistical tie, I look forward to battling you in the voting booth.
Worst of luck,
-Chris
October 29th, 2004 at 3:02 pm
The whole point of the article was that as the focus of the election goes from domestic issues to the War on Terror, Bush is more likely to win as almost every poll shows Bush up by 10 to 20 points on this issue. Nobody should think that Kerry has already lost; that’s the whole point of the paragraph I put at the end of the post.
Hope you loose
Nick
October 30th, 2004 at 1:12 am
Personally, I have always been baffled that anyone with four neurons above the brain stem will prefer a Democrat on domestic issues, and in complete disbelief that there are those who think they can handle the foreign sphere.