Bill Clinton would look pretty good at this point. So, in fact, would Richard Nixon.
I really don't care if they lie about their views in order to make political capital. If you expect the sort of purity that offers the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, you are not going to be part of real world politics. Adroit lying is in fact a job qualification.
As for S&B, everybody has a license to be stupid in college. He was good afterwards, in VVAW. Not that I trust him. But if he can beat W, I'll support him.
jks
--- Michael Dawson -PSU <mdawson at pdx.edu> wrote:
> > Do you have any evidence of
> > Kerry's deep GOPness aside from a feeling?
> >
> > Doug
>
> It's mostly a gut reaction, I admit.
>
> Analytically, I think he's basically Dukakis II,
> actually: shitty
> policies/staff preferences wrapped in a package
> tailor-made for the
> Republicans to club down. On the outside, he's a
> Mass Lib. On the inside,
> he's Bill Clinton -- a pathological liar and social
> climber living out a JFK
> fantasy.
>
> About the lying part, does anybody really believe
> he's against gay marriage,
> as he says today? That's bullshit -- and it's worse
> if it's true, of
> course. But his willingness to lie about it rather
> than make a stand shows
> what he'd do to the masses, in the extremely remote
> event he wins the White
> House.
>
> As to hard evidence, the fact that he's not being
> trashed by the DNC/DLC is
> pretty good. I believe I also read that, as an
> undergraduate, he was a
> leader of a Yale movement to _oppose_ draft
> resistance. And then there's
> Skull and Bones...
>
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