Reply #11: The fault line in Kerry's persona that Republicans are tapping into is... [View All]

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...that Kerry has wanted to be president since he was a kid. He has carefully constructed a persona his entire life which was meant to be all things to all people. A little bit of liberal for the liberals, a little bit of moderation for the conservatives.

He isn't in his core being either of those things. He's a kid who grew up with a lot of opportunities to construct the persona he thought would get him elected, whether that was going into the navy, or becoming a DA, or currying favor with the environmentalists and the Wall St banks.

Compare that to Bush -- Bush didn't have to do anything plainly visible to create a persona of electability (the baseball deal and the TX governership were clearly contructs, but most people don't perceive them as such).

So what Bush will be doing is finding everything that Kerry ever did in order to play both sides - liberal and moderate - and portray them as inconsistencies of character.