Reply #91: No, your statements are dubious and intellectually dishonest

[Carolina]

since as you say: The press is and has always been pro Bush, then
therefore (going back to your prior response), no matter how Kerry voted on IWR, the press would have been creamed him. That's exactly the point. Since the Bush loving press will level him anyway, he should have stood up for the truth. At least then, he'd have more integrity, credibility and ability to fight NOW.

He needs to stop pandering to the press, to stop weighing his words to see how this or that is going to play. It's the same crap that doomed Al Gore during the Florida debacle (see Jeffrey Toobin's book Too Close to call).

As for Kerry standing up for his war record, again you MISS the point. The press has him on the ropes defending, being another defensive Democrat. Defend your vote, defend your record... How weak. Kerry SHOULD be on the fucking offensive. Bush has a record to defend and Kerry needs to speak the way he in did in 1971. People want strength, not someone constantly having to answer for what he did, blah, blah, blah. And I have heard Ted Kennedy defend Kerry's vote ad nauseum. Still rings hollow; too bad Kerry isn't more like Kennedy.

As for poll numbers which actually I don't trust. The fact remains Bush may be dropping but I don't see Kerry rising significantly

And finally, since Kerry has gone along with Bush on so much, I have little faith he can fix the mess HE HELPED CREATE.

I'll vote for him too, but only because I have NO CHOICE.