Comments on: Kerry Defends Nomination Delay

By: delta dave

delta dave — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

kerry's efforts to manipulate the dimolib convention may be a final nail in his campaign chances. American's (generally speaking) hate liars and cheats. kerry seems to have been given a pass on lying (after all we know EVERYBODY lies), but not playing by normal convention rules smacks of cheating.

We all have been cheated at one time or another and we hate it on two levels -- personal and intellectual.....Personal because we took a loss; Intellectual because we have been personally made a dupe and fool.

So his dalliance with gerrymandering the convention is at his own great peril. The CHEATER.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Lets take this issue to the realm of the absurd. I understand that the federal funds are approx 75 million. Why not wait until....lets say Oct 31 to declare the nominee and then you have 75 million to spend the week of the election. As long as Kerry's donations continues until then...why not? Or maybe Bush should wait....it would be the most interesting game of chicken.

Or maybe Kerry will never 'accept' the nomination and if he loses in November he can say he didn't lose the election because he was never in the election....a perfect Kerryism.

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I understand the rationale, and I know that anyone who was going to vote for him from the beginning will find this an acceptable workaround, given that we've never had the Dem and GOP conventions simultaneously (and maybe now we should, since they are increasingly meaningless).

But this election is going to be decided by those in the middle who could go either way, and this maneuver is *not* going to appear Presidential.

By: cj

cj — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Kerry is appearing more and more to be a money-grubbing politician. I don't think that plays well to the "union member" type base of the Dem party.

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

“Deferring Acceptance” and Other Tales of Campaign Finance Lunacy
Part of Kerry's problem regarding the idea of deferring his acceptance of his party's nomination is solely symbolic, and part of it raises a more concrete problem in terms of following established rules. The symbolic problem is obvious, and has...

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