I really don't understand about Kerry...

[Lancer]

How did he end up winning in Iowa? Dean was touted as being the most Bush hating, ultra left boy on the block. Kerry on the other hand served in the military, supported the war? -Not sure about this. Anyway he's more centrist than Dean. Dean only took 3rd! So is the democratic party more centrist than supposed?

Also, Edwards seems to me like a guy that could run well against Bush, (win?) so is he on the democratic left or center? Where does he stand on Iraq? What are his chances of getting the nomination?

[MrFun]

Many Iowans didn't want to do any favors for a guy who thinks the Iowa caucacus (fvck spelling) is corrupt.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Kerry didn't so much win, as much as Dean blew it.

[MrFun]

Ogie wins the double Jeopardy points tonight.

[TCO]

Are you going to vote for Cheney?

[MrFun]

I'm going to vote for you, TCO.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

deletia

[MrFun]

uh-oh . . . . .

do we have a cross-post situation here?

[Alexander's Horse]

Re: I really don't understand about Kerry...

Originally posted by Lancer
So is the democratic party more centrist than supposed?

Well yes Lancer - you don't have any left wing parties of any consequence. You have a centre right progressive party called the democrats and a rightwing conservative party called the Republicans.

You have nothing like our Labor Party, or the Greens or Liberals.

[Sprayber]

Do you guys still have John Howard as PM?

[Alexander's Horse]

sadly yes - but hopefully not for much longer.

[Mordoch]

Democrats are pretty much deciding they want to nominate a candidate that has a good chance of winning, and are starting to thing that Kerry could be that guy.

Kerry isn't THAT much to the center though. He established himself politically originally by being a military war hero and vetran who came home to be an anti-war activist regarding Vietnam. His opening in politics came when he testified before Congress in April of 1971 and asked "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

In other news, Kerry now has a 10 percent point lead in New Hampshire and his campaign raised half a million dollars in the 39 hours after the end of the Iowa Caucuses.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/01/22/kerrys_gains_ignite_fund_raising_push/

[Sikander]

C'mon Lieberman, we need at least one adult in the race.

[Drake Tungsten]

C'mon Lieberman, we need at least one adult in the race.

[NeOmega]

Dean is much more centerist than Kerry. Dean is more centerist than Edwards also. The Republican pundits have just painted Dean as "far left" because he opposed the war.

Kerry and Edwards apparantly believed they could trust Bush to handle Iraq well when the voted for the "resolution". A severe misjudgement of character, (by their own standards) and a reason they neither should be elected president.

I sent Howard Dean $100 today. I couldn't have been the only one.