Comments on: Kerry’s Intelligence Vote

Comments on: Kerry’s Intelligence Vote http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/kerrys_intelligence_vote/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:19:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: GP http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/kerrys_intelligence_vote/comment-page-1/#comment-18348 GP Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=6401#comment-18348 I suspect this may be the type of year when a legislator's exhuastive and necessarily contradictory voting record may not matter. Voters are hyper-focused on three issues: Terrorism Defense, Iraq and the Economy. If Kerry can forcefully present reasonable and sensible plans on these fronts, I think the public (other than harcore Bush supporters) won't care about his voluminous voting record. Further I think there is a real sense in the country that something changed after 9/11. That's in part why the public is not calling for a public lynching of Bush and his administration for not stopping the attack. It's also why they aren't going to be terribly interested in hearing about a vote Kerry made 15 years ago. And let's remember it's Bush who is wrapping himself in how the world changed, so it's inconsistent for him then to point to Kerry's past. If he continues to do so, the danger will be for Kerry to point to Bush's past of running an administration that had information which could have stopped 9/11. --- I suspect this may be the type of year when a legislator's exhuastive and necessarily contradictory voting record may not matter. Voters are hyper-focused on three issues: Terrorism Defense, Iraq and the Economy. If Kerry can forcefully present reasonable and sensible plans on these fronts, I think the public (other than harcore Bush supporters) won't care about his voluminous voting record. Further I think there is a real sense in the country that something changed after 9/11. That's in part why the public is not calling for a public lynching of Bush and his administration for not stopping the attack. It's also why they aren't going to be terribly interested in hearing about a vote Kerry made 15 years ago. And let's remember it's Bush who is wrapping himself in how the world changed, so it's inconsistent for him then to point to Kerry's past. If he continues to do so, the danger will be for Kerry to point to Bush's past of running an administration that had information which could have stopped 9/11.

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