Bush no more represents America than Mit Romney does Massachusetts

[NewYorkerfromMass]

or Ahhnold does California, or.....

Guys, let's stop getting bent out of shape about the culture war. It is a fake fucking war like the WOT.
We lost a very small portion of moderates to Bush.
The sad and pathetic truth is that Kerry has a personality which did not win over a small but critical segement of the population.
It was the likability index Kerry failed. That is all.

Mit Romney would not be governor of Massachusetts had Shannon O'Brien been a bit warmer and less abrasive.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[Zuni]

1. same with Bob Ehrlich in Maryland in 2002 (1st Puke in 40 yrs)

Kathleen Kennedy Townshend was so obnoxious that even I wanted her to lose sometimes. She grated on me big time

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Thank you. I am not smoking crack

it's charisma, charisma, charisma! and then good issues! (for the dumb and superficial 10% last second deciders)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Anecdotal evidence this is true from another message board:

I wrote: "...I believe Kerry just didn't convince enough moderates he could be trusted. The wishy washy labels stuck, and Kerry's dense intellectual approach didn't help himself dig out of it...."

Response: I found this to be true. Over the course of the past few months I ran into a fair amount of people who would mention they were voting for Bush because they didn't trust Kerry. They didn't think Bush had done a good job but didn't see Kerry as an alternative. I ran into very few Bush supporters other than people I would consider openly moralists.