Kerry 49%, Leaker-in-Chief 39% !!

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

Did no one see this? Has it already been posted anywhere else?

Both tweety and lou cited the poll!!

Sorry, I have no refs/links :-(




Edited to add link: http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/

[whometense]

1. Great news, isn't it????

I blogged on this today here: http://toughenough.org/2006/04/country-wants-do-over.html

Links here: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7134.html

and here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-poll13apr13,0,7378403,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[karynnj]

2. Thanks for the links

Your blogwas great - I agree what are the 39% waiting for. In fact what are the 51% waiting for.

[MH1]

5. Tee hee - comment #13 on the carpetbagger post.

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

Tom, are you here?

[whometense]

6. oooooh,

Tom is my new hero.

I'm gonna post it here. I hope Tom won't mind.

All of you who say "it won't be Kerry" remind me of Republicans I knew in 1966 who said Nixon would never be a candidate again, at the same time that he was making friends and influencing people and getting chits by going around and working to keep the party together post the Goldwater blowout. And when candidates he worked for won their House races in 1966, it made people in the party sit up and take notice.

Kerry is giving major support to the Iraq vets running for Congress, has used his supporter's list to raise some substantial bucks for them at crucial times in the primary season, and is already working on supporting them for November with fund-raising. If they win, this is going to count a whole lot more than who gives good head to the blogosphere and does nothing else.

I also don't notice any other Democrat (particularly not HillaryBillary) who is putting forward any sort of resolution in the Senate about solving things in Iraq (and Kerry can't get any more support for this than Feingold has for censure - for shame on those turds!).

The rest of these so-called "candidates" are all standing around sticking their hands down their pants to find out if they've got anything there. Which is doubtful.

I would suggest all you smugsters who claim to know the future either hie yourselves over to DailyKos where you can diddle yourself with the rest of the self-diddlers and think you're all geniuses, or wake up and smell the coffee…

It just might be that people are starting to realize that the image they had of Kerry was not the truth, but rather a Republican tar-baby. And they're the ones who got stuck in the tar-baby and thrown in the briar patch, where they *really* didn't want to go.

YMMV

Comment by Tom Cleaver — 4/13/2006 @ 10:24 pm

This one's good too (and he has a great screen name):

Tom — Thanks for that last part. It's been my thought all along that Kerry has lead an almost perfectly clean life. If he had had a ticket for jay-walking the Republicanites would have made a major campaign issue out of it. As it was, the smears they used were fabrications and unfortunately Kerry didn't refute the swift-boaters before the lies sunk into the public perception.

I'll probably be the only one on this thread that is a Kerry supporter, but when the '08 primaries come around the only other candidate I would consider above him would be Gore. Of course, since I'm a lib this could be subject to change with newer and different information.

Comment by marcus alrealius alrightus — 4/14/2006 @ 3:59 am

[wisteria]

3. I saw it reported on Lou Dobbs this afternoon.

I am happy it is being mentioned.

[karynnj]

4. Glad it's getting coverage

I just hope that Kerry gets more coverage like the LA immigration coverage that KG posted. I totally love the TV coverage. In the less than a minute he is shown it is obvious that he is a both a warm, friendly person and a serious man with thoughtful ideas.

[whometense]

7. Was that your reply to sedated?

Good one!

[karynnj]

8. yeah

I hope I got the numbers right. I assume you're the one who responded to Tom.

I didn't want to write it there, but I also think it's a 2 step process. People don't like to think they screwed up. Many may migrate from a "Bush is good" position to "Bush was bad, but look at the other choice". The good thing is that Kerry is so reasonable when he speaks. Even against Allard, all of his comments are clear, justifiable, and on target. Harsh, yes - but he is really addressing the question of whether he is playing politics on this. If there is one person in that Senate who I know with certainty is not playing politics with this it's John Kerry.

The more people see Kerry - say on the LA channel on immigration, it marginally changes their opinion. His comments on that show were so good - concise and balanced, more so than anyone else. The genuineness of his giving the girl that hug and the laugh were wonderful - you can't see that without seeing that he is a very real, likable person.

There were many smears. The ones about his medals are believed only by people who never will vote for any Democrat. The attacks on the kind of person he really is are countered every time someone hears something contradictory. The dignity with which he and Teresa and their kids handle things is there to be seen. The comments that he does nothing in the Senate can easily be seen as nonsense.

The anti-war actions in VN may be better understood in 2008 than in 2004. In 2004, the majority of people still said the war was worth it - even as Kerry said "wrong war". Now, the majority see it as not worth it. This lets them question what you do when you think the county is going in the wrong direction. That Kerry's protesting was by all accounts of the time, serious, thoughtful and polite, may cause some people (now against Iraq) to consider the courage it took and the reasons he did it.

[zann725]

9. When it's one's Destiny....and I DO believe it's JK's...the time will come

sooner the better!