Reply #7: I looked later in the day and MOST of the comments were better

[karynnj]

than I would have expected - leading me to believe the author selected the 14 he wanted to have people see. There were several others who had more than one post, who referred to their earlier one not being shown. I think they dumped (accidentally ?) some earlier ones - including two I wrote. They violated no rules. One I resent and it was printed (I had included it in a DU thread).

Many were more concise and clever than me - essentially asking if that meant that the Obama campaign had decided to suppress the Republican vote in Ohio and lie about the Republican nominee. Many also pointed out that Romney really did change fundamental positions - which Kerry never did. All in all, no Democrat jumped on this saying great idea.

My thought is IF this were the strategy, the Obama administration would certainly not push this now. More likely, they would just be digging up clear cut examples - and many are in Perry's attack. It certainly seems unlikely that the Obama team would want to gratuitously hit Kerry - as there is no reason to think they won't use him in 2012.

My guess is the media wants the Republican circus to continue - it has high ratings on TV, so it likely sells papers to. The one thing that stops that is everyone lining up behind Romney - so they are trying to argue that he really will be vulnerable - and that is true - and it is not because he is "like John Kerry". There are superficial similarities - elite family backgrounds, tall, great hair, good looking, Massachusetts - but beyond that they are not similar at all - and one big difference is that Romney, in terms of where he lies on the political spectrum is more the Republican "Joe Lieberman" or "Evan Bayh" - someone on the far (to the center) edge of the party. Kerry is in the left half of the Democratic party. In addition, windsurfing attacks aside, Kerry is not really someone who has radically changed positions - 180 degrees, Romney is. (In fact, of the MA Senators, Brown is more like Romney on this)