April 27, 2004

Is it Possible that Kerry Won’t Even Be Nominated?

Back on March 17 I posted that “Kerry’s Gonna Get Hammered in the Election.” But I had no idea things were so going so badly for him already that the Village Voice would print this:

John Kerry Must Go

Note to Democrats: it’s not too late to draft someone—anyone—else

With the air gushing out of John Kerry’s balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn’t have what it takes to win and has got to go. As arrogant and out of it as the Democratic political establishment is, even these pols know the party’s got to have someone to run against George Bush. They can’t exactly expect the president to self-destruct into thin air.

With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton’s triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.

Is it possible that Kerry won’t even secure the Democratic nomination?

Al Qaeda Proclaims 2004 ‘Year of Attacks on US’—yet Kerry Opposes Efforts to Destroy Al Qaeda.

From This is London:

‘Year of attacks on US’

One of the most senior figures in the al Qa’eda terror group has pledged that 2004 will be a year of attacks on America.

The comments appeared in a voice recording on the Dirasat Islamist Website and are believed to have come from Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin.

The tape also warns that that Saudi Arabian rulers will be unable to prevent further attacks.

“The Jews, the Americans and crusaders in general will remain the targets of our coming attacks and this year, God willing, will be fiercer and harsher for them” the tape said.

Yet in the Iowa debates, Kerry takes this position on how to combat terrorism:

The war on terror is less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering and law-enforcement operation. And we deserve presidential leadership that knows that and knows how to make America safer, and I will do that.

Al Qaeda’s trying to nuke us, and Kerry wants to use law-enforcement officials to go after them. Our law-enforcement officials have plenty to do here at home. If a hostile nation harbors terrorists and doesn’t permit our law-enforcement people to go after them? If Kerry’s President, that’s game over for us. That stymies Kerry. He has to go to the U.N. to beg them to defend us in a case like that.

For more, see this Winds of Change post on the subject.