Reply #23: Look, we told you months ago Kerry would win by a landslide

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The main factor causing the President’s decline is John Kerry.

Yes, that’s right. The man people are saying people haven’t embraced yet. The man people are saying hasn’t been campaigning enough. He is the reason President Bush’s numbers are tumbling.
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But the simple reality, as we said in that March 4 article, is that Kerry is not the typical liberal the Democrats have been throwing out as their candidate, nor is he the take-it-on-the-chin schmoozer Clinton was. Kerry is not from the Harvard wimp breed of Northeasterner, he is from the Boston-in-your-face breed. His war veteran status is not just a status, it is a part of who he is. In short, as we have been saying – much to some people’s chagrin – is that John Kerry truly is the real deal in terms of being a tough as nails war hero.

And while the entire rest of the media has ignored this factor, it has changed the perspective of the American people in terms of how they feel about President Bush and his administration. The very presence of a war hero on the other side of the aisle has taken away the free ride Bush had been given with regard to being thought of as the better choice in terms of foreign policy. Previously the American people felt they had no real alternative to consider and that Republicans were the military and the military was all Republican.
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http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i10elections.htm