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...doesn't sound like a politician. One reason the flip-flop charge has stuck is that Kerry, with his meandering, caveat-filled speaking style, often seems like a guy trying to avoid a straight answer. Sensing that vulnerability, Republicans have run the same playbook they ran against Al Gore: portraying Kerry's personality deficiencies as deficiencies of character. As a result, while Kerry leads Bush on most domestic issues, voters turn sour when asked about Kerry the man. In last week's TIME poll, Kerry's biggest deficit versus Bush was in "sticking to his positions." Only 37% of registered...
...blow-it-against-Bush” chorus louder than I do. But despite Kerry’s myriad flaws, all magnified to fly-frying heat by the president’s political fuglemen—and despite the extraordinary disloyalty of a campaign staff that makes the team Al Gore ’69 had look like a mystic cult—the Democrats’ larger problem goes back farther than this campaign...
Tribe joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1968 and quickly entered the spotlight as an eloquent advocate for liberal causes. He has argued three dozen cases in front of the Supreme Court—famously representing Vice President Albert J. Gore Jr. ’69 in the December 2000 Florida recount dispute...
...campaign lacked a Kerry peer who could tell the candidate when and where to get back in line. Although his odds are longer now, Kerry has plenty of time to turn it around, and he can take some small courage from the fact that a man named Al Gore was ahead four years ago next month by 11 points and still lost. And as a campaigner, Kerry has a habit of looking into the abyss before he turns things around...
...Republicans are not immune from this sort of thing; many of their talking-points seem as though they were taken straight out of a “Gore-Lieberman 2000” pamphlet. In the midst of the “Republican revolution,” with Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, in charge and government agencies such as the Department of Education in real danger of being axed, who would have guessed that the next Republican president’s main domestic accomplishments would be more educational spending, a new Cabinet-level agency, and a new Medicare...