Reply #14: Reason number one: he's not a politician [View All]

[HamdenRice]

It seems that a number of DUers are not familiar with MCM. He began writing about shrub -- his first book on shrub was "The Bush Dyslexicon" -- when many still thought bush would govern as a "compassionate conservative." He has been one of the most incisive critics of the administration. And in his latest book, he has the courage to risk being called a conspiracy theorist and lay out how the election was stolen.

Kerry, by contrast, is a professional politician, and a particularly poll-tested one at that. One big problem with our politics today is that most Democrats rely heavily on polls to limit themselves about what they can say.

In other words, we are now in a conundrum created by polling and the most evil administration in US history. Polls show that uncommitted voters are "turned off" by politicians saying "negative" things about other politicians. Whether by design or default, bush has brilliantly capitalized on this by wreaking havoc, death, destruction, treason and bankruptcy on the US. Just by telling the truth about bush, one is "going negative" and risking turning off uncommitted voters.

There are two kinds of Democratic responses: Some, worrying about "sounding negative" refuse to call a spade a spade. They say things like, "what president said was incorrect" rather than "the president is lying and is a habitual liar."

The other kind of Democrat is realizing that we can no longer have this kind of poll limited discourse. Carter says bush is destroying American values by practicing torture. Kennedy calls bush out as a liar. Dean, Gore, Boxer, Conyers are re-discovering a politics of plain truth.

Kerry remains locked within his poll driven, mealy mouthed universe. When Kerry speaks, he is not saying exactly what he thinks.

So I'll take Mark Crispin Miller's word over Kerry's any day. Miller does not commission polls before he speaks.