Prediction: Electability meme will now be turned on Kerry [View All]

[JackRiddler]

It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy, but that is not the point. In the next two weeks, we will see a demonstration of why "electability" is a slippery, meaningless, endlessly flexible whore of an argument.

Edwards will be proclaimed more charismatic, more Southern, better looking, dynamic, more able to unite. He is not of the special interests, less likely to be a womanizer, has a nicer smile and message, less negative, and NOT FROM MASSACHUSSETTS.

Liberals have already convinced themselves he's more liberal than Kerry and moderates will thrill at how he's NOT FROM MASSACHUSSETTS and hence in some magic way less liberal, at least in his image.

Kerry will probably pull it out on Mar. 2, but it will be a bruising two weeks as the media play through their usual cycle of build-and-destroy, dramatize and sensationalize.

The issues will continue to be irrelevant.

And will we not deserve it? We decided to marry Electability, and now we are surprised it's a whore?