A MA journalist weighs in on Kerry damningly

[Carolina]

I admit, I don't care for Kerry one bit, so I'm urging all March 2nd voters to take a look at Edwards and consider voting for him. This article just adds fuel to my anti-Kerry fire. Your thoughts?

Will the Real John Kerry Please Stand Up? by Anthony Schinella editor of The Winchester Star, a weekly newspaper in Winchester, Mass

As someone who has watched Kerry over the years, seen him in other races, and observed him lose all spine when the tough votes came along, his surge is a big surprise. For 18 years, Kerry has done very little he can point to by way of accomplishment...

Take organized labor.

Kerry has always had a bad relationship with the unions in Massachusetts... His reaction to working folks has been a blasé toss of the hand, while reciting nonsensical globalist gobbledygook: If Americans can't compete with 10 cent labor in China, too bad. At an event in Manchester, N.H. back in August 2003, Kerry said precisely that to a handful of unionized Verizon workers complaining about outsourcing...

In fact, on a myriad of issues Kerry has been part of the problem in Washington, D.C. and so closely resembles President George W. Bush it is a wonder what the Democrats of 2004 are thinking...

For almost two decades, Kerry hasn’t been fighting the special interests he has been enabling the special interests...

In the end, voters may ignore Kerry’s real record and vote for him because the national press corps believes he is “electable.” But voters would be smart to take a second look and sharply analyze Kerry’s true record because when all is said and done, they may not like what they see.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0219-11.htm