The Democratic Party
Wretchard at the
Belmont Club comes up with a wonderful analysis of the Democratic Party and its reasons for selecting J. F. Kerry as its candidate:
bq. John Kerry's troubles have largely been forced on him by the Democratic Party platform. He has been given the unenviable task of presenting it as the War Party when in fact it is not, nor does it want to be. The Democrats could have chosen to become a real anti-war party, in which case it would have nominated Howard Dean or it could have elected to become a genuine war party and chosen Joseph Lieberman. Instead it chose to become the worst of all combinations, an anti-war party masquerading as the war party.
bq. To carry out this program, it required a Janus-like figure and found it in Senator Kerry; the only man of sufficient stature who could look two ways at once...
Wretchard takes off running -- this is well worth the couple minutes it will take to read. Good stuff!
He also links to an article by
Christopher Hitchens who has this observation:
bq. He still gives, to me at any rate, the impression of someone who sincerely wishes that this were not a time of war. When critical votes on the question come up, Kerry always looks like a dog being washed.
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at August 23, 2004 11:45 PM