Tuesday, April 27, 2004
RCP Commentary (great stuff)
...by the time the candidates stand up and debate in October there is going to be little discernable difference between the two on Iraq, the fervent antiwar activists in the base may find themselves with nowhere to go but Nader.
That assumes, of course, that in the end the activists' hatred for the war in Iraq trumps their hatred of George W. Bush. I don't think there is any way of predicting whether this will occur.
The one thing you can predict, however, is that John Kerry will do his best to keep the base behind him. The result will most likely be one of the great political kabuki dances of modern political history, with Kerry moving to the middle in an effort to prove his strength and national security bona fides to the broader electorate, yet all the while winking and nodding to the base and lacing his rhetoric with the comfortable code words of the antiwar left
...by the time the candidates stand up and debate in October there is going to be little discernable difference between the two on Iraq, the fervent antiwar activists in the base may find themselves with nowhere to go but Nader.
That assumes, of course, that in the end the activists' hatred for the war in Iraq trumps their hatred of George W. Bush. I don't think there is any way of predicting whether this will occur.
The one thing you can predict, however, is that John Kerry will do his best to keep the base behind him. The result will most likely be one of the great political kabuki dances of modern political history, with Kerry moving to the middle in an effort to prove his strength and national security bona fides to the broader electorate, yet all the while winking and nodding to the base and lacing his rhetoric with the comfortable code words of the antiwar left
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