Syl here is non-biased summation of the race at this time(including news you will like--private polls put Bush just 5% ahead of Kerry--i attach article at end of my yada yada).
The use of the phrase of Flip-Flopper is used over an over, Kerry and the term Flip-Flopper have entered the mainstream lingo, that this phrase has tattooed to Kerry is his OWN fault.
I would myself view Kerry as a flip-flopper, and that ain't good.
Bush, o.k, i have contempt it is that simple.
I remind i voted for Gore in 2000, not enthusiastically, but i voted for him.
And frankly if Gore was on the ticket now i would vote for him enthusiastically, same as would for Dean.
I have reached a point of such disillussionment with Kerry and what i call the neo-con-libs that now rule the Democratic party that i can see the neo-conlibs to be as dangerous as the plain old neo-cons.
I believe it is time the the Democratic Party as we know it DIE.
I further state the presence of Laird,Bacchus and Coaltrain and i that for sometime declared we will not vote for Kerry, that we 4 but represent nation wide a group that have enough votes to POSSIBLY make Kerry the winner.
We all of us despise Bush, so i ask you how offensive has Kerry been to us to swear not to vote for him???
For me Kerry had to be very offensive for him to lose my vote.
I contend that because the Democratic Party made such a bad choice, and continued to be the party of weak-kneed "love me i am a liberal", i disown them.
I don't care anymore.
Kerry could quite well be a fascist himself, he has shown me nothing to assure me he will not be fascista himself on being President.
It is called LOSS of CONFIDENCE--i don't like, trust nor have confidence in Kerry, and that is his problem, not mine.
i put one , i think, critical passage in bold face in this article.
<<For Bush, Kerry, Iraq Is More Than a War
12 minutes ago
By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON - For most Americans, the war in Iraq (news - web sites) is a harrowing conflict responsible for more than 1,000 U.S. military deaths. For President Bush (news - web sites) and Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), it represents much more as each tries to use Iraq as a prism through which voters will harshly judge their rival.
In their bitterly contested campaign, war is just another way to call the other guy names.
"No matter how many times Senator Kerry flip flops, we were right to make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein from power," the Republican incumbent said Tuesday. Bush wants voters to see Kerry as indecisive, even dangerous, certain to waffle on national security as well as other issues if he becomes commander in chief.
Kerry, a four-term Massachusetts senator, casts Iraq as one of many ill-conceived Bush decisions that have pushed the nation in the wrong direction. "He chose the date of the start of this war. He chose the moment, and he chose for America to go it alone," Kerry said. "And today, America is paying this price."
Later, after the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq passed 1,000, Kerry marked the "tragic milestone" by praising the fallen soldiers and their families. He vowed to make "the right decisions in Iraq and the right decisions ... at home" to honor their sacrifices.
He didn't mention Bush, but Kerry has accused the president of making all the wrong decisions on Iraq, the economy, jobs, health care and other issues.
With word of a record budget deficit projected for this year, the Democrat said Tuesday, "W stands for wrong -- the wrong direction for America"
On Wednesday, Kerry plans to accuse Bush of squandering money in Iraq that could be spent on improving lives in the United States. The next day, he will seize on evidence of rising health insurance premiums to say the Republican incumbent has made the wrong choices on health care. Last week, Kerry said Bush's bad choices cost Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs.
"The president wants you to re-elect him. For what?" Kerry said Friday. "Losing jobs? Building the biggest deficit in American history?"
Two public polls gave Bush a double-digit lead coming out of his nominating convention last week, but private surveys made available to both campaigns suggest the president's advantage is closer to 5 percentage points. There has been a fundamental shift in the race, according to polls, with voters saying they will make their choice based on the candidates' leadership and vision, not issues, and giving Bush a big advantage on those two traits.
By putting his criticism of Bush under one thematic umbrella, Kerry is answering critics in his own party who have been demanding a consistent message from their candidate. He must convince voters that the times are bad enough to demand change, and that he's a safe alternative to the current commander in chief.
Bush has not had a message problem. Since the day Kerry cemented the Democratic nomination, the president and his GOP allies have picked through the challenger's 20-year Senate voting record for inconsistencies. From education reform and trade to the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq, the Bush-Cheney campaign found plenty to try to label Kerry a flip-flopper.
The senator voted against the Persian Gulf War in 1991, for the 2002 war resolution -- and both for and against funding the Iraq war.
Kerry has lengthy explanations for each GOP-attacked vote or position, but Republicans are betting voters won't bother with nuance. Not when a flip-flopping president could hurt the nation. (edit-- i stress Kerry left himself WIDE OPEN to these charges because he does in fact flip-flop---i do not vote for persons i can not respect nor trust nor have any confidence in, don't blame me for the INCOMPETENCE of the Democratic Party, they have dug their ditch now we will see if they can dig themselves out of it before election day---for me the ABB motive is now hollow, as the AnyOne proved to be possibly as dangerous as Bush---he kicked Soros in the groin and jumped in bed and embraced Sharon, and he,also, in the face of Michael Moore's effort stated in horrendous betrayal to all ABBers and Moore, he would have voted for the iraq war even if he knew their were no WMDS or Al Queda election and i state that was the REAL KERRY, and now he is lying because he is in deep trouble--enuff said-WL )
Why else would Vice President Dick Cheney suggest that voting for Kerry would make the nation vulnerable to terrorist attack?
"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again," Cheney told an audience in Iowa.
Responded Kerry running mate John Edwards "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line today."
In this campaign, that line is blurred every day.>>
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