Kerry as the "Big Daddy" President?

[Cassandra]

Repukes are always saying that Bush* gives them the warm fuzzies as someone who will protect them but I thought Kerry came off as much more soothing and strong than twitchy, angry Bush*. Any thoughts?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Kerry looks and acts presidential

He takes the job and responsibility seriously. He is obviously smarter than I am (and I graduated college with high honors), and one who relies on experts to help him make wise decisions. He is a realist who knows he can't promise the American people we will never be attacked again, but he will do his darndest to watch our backs.

Let me put it this way: I want Kerry to be the commander of the American Swift Boat.

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Yep. Avuncular.

Who makes you feel safer? Texas Jack (the wild Larry Storch character in "The Great Race" who was always screaming for somebody to "give me some fightin' room") or someone more on the order of Sherlock Holmes?

There's something a hell of a lot more reasurring about a stolid and upright prosecutor than there is about some crazed Hell's Angel in a bar whose masculinity's been insulted. Safe is having the well-versed and calm person on your side.

[AngryAmish]

3. I think Riddick Bowe would be the Big Daddy president

[patrice]

4. Kerry should elicit confidence, but I don't need/want a Daddy.

That's my objection to Bush.

I already have a fine father thanks.

[Cassandra]

6. I don't need or want a daddy either but...

for those who do, I think Kerry fits the bill much better. Bush*s angry rants, with his shoulders pressing into his ears, remind me of Rick Lazio's idiotic paper waving in Hillary's face at their debate; reminds women of an out-of-control ex.

edit: Michael Tomasky seems to agree with me:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8729

"I'm guessing that Friday night, that trend started shifting into reverse. It wasn't any single thing Bush said. It was the manner: the schoolyard swagger, the left arm cocked like an itchy gunslinger's, the arrogant sneer, the roosterish strutting -- and the voice. God, that voice. You don't quite call that screaming. It wasn't exactly caterwauling. Maybe yowling. Whatever it was, he sounded like a tedious and noisome braggart in the parking lot after a football game. Having seen plenty of those, and having been that myself from time to time, experience teaches me to take the view that most women do not find that figure appealing."

[seabeyond]

5. i DONT want a president that is my daddy

that is what bushco projects that he is our daddy and we are ten. i am not ten. i dont want another parent at 42, i have good parents, and they dont take care of me, i do it myself. i want an employee

[patrice]

7. That's what I'm looking for a competent responsible employee.

[cheshire]

8. * needs protection, his parents should have used it & I could kick his ass