Reply #33: Strong candidate

[PATRICK]

Walks a convincing tightrope that everyone thinks is a broad safe path, so easily he skirts the principle of military strength and liberalism.
He can appeal to both convincingly though not as satisfying against the absolute mockery of principle that is Bushco. THAT extreme should cause anyone to revolt easily the other way for mere salvation.

He is strong, yet it only gets worrisome when he needs to shake soemone off his tail with scare tactics. If Bush needs to be defeated so badly it might have been better to fight him more furiously in the Senate when the life and death issues were built on obvious(to us?) lies and selfish terrifying interests.

And Skull and Boones is only a frat, only a frat. However, a small issue no one mentions is this. During the "secret" initiation the candidate is supposed to make a full personal confession of every misdeed of his past. I take it Kerry and his personal biographer, The Boston Globe are comfortable with all that?

He reminds me of Muskie, only stronger and better spoken, tending to come on strong and centrist instead of charming liberals outside his fan club. I am sure traditional politicking calls for stick then carrot until the nomination is won but....