Reply #27: well, the center has shifted so far to the right [View All]

[nodehopper]

in the last few years that you are right, a lot of people wouldn't call Kerry a moderate, but that is more indicative of the zeitgeist, than of Kerry's politics. How is Kerry Clintonian? His emphasis on the middle classes, his care to identify himself as a non-redistributionist democrat, his tax plan is similar to Clinton's 1992 plan, his deficit reduction fiscal platform. I am not saying this is a bad thing, btw, but he is more right than someone like Dean, who would have raised taxes, but had a better health care plan, and, obviously Kucinich. He is right around where Clinton was; he is pretty much a straight AIPAC hawk on the Israel/Palestine issue. He skirts the issue of US withdrawal from Iraq. His opposition to CAFTA is the first break in his pattern of voting for free trade agreements. And although he echoes the Clinton party line on abortion "safe legal & rare" he throws out ambigious statements like he believes that "life begins at conception," which is a defininte concession to a very right faction. There is more, but it's like three in the morning and I have to go to sleep. :)