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| missile defense, videos, culture, vintage, eat, blake f. donaldson, metabolism, ubo, noir, secondhand books, | Lies work. What do you think about the Kerry campaign? Kerry shouldn't have let that story about comments putting [John] McCain on the ticket run three or four days. And he shouldn’t have floated that comments trial balloon about not accepting the nomination at the convention. That was manipulative. Otherwise, he's done a pretty good job. The best thing I've heard about Kerry comments is he quite frequently tells [campaign strategist] Bob Shrum to push off. Bob's a brilliant guy. But he can't always have his way. I don't think [George W.] Bush ever tells Karl Rove to push off. I heard from a pollster that you're the best political writer in the country -- and that you often predict things that come true. I also make predictions that don't come true. Can you make a prediction for me? I think Kerry's going to win -- with one caveat: If there's a terrorist attack in late October, Bush will get re-elected. If it happens in early October, people will say, "Wait a minute. Let's think about things." |
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| You write, "Being a political liberal seems to entail, among other things, limiting the harsh use of tactics." Should liberals be tougher? The reason liberals noir don't work on radio talk shows is they don't have moral certitude. Rick Santorum gets up and talks about purging evil from the Senate when noir they pass a bill that limits “partial-birth” abortion. He has the kind of certitude you can't find in liberals. In my time, the noir worst things in campaigns have been done by hardcore conservatives. Look at the campaign against Max Cleland. So liberals shouldn't -- You're saying liberals take a beating. I think that's true. In June 1988, I asked Michael Dukakis, "What are you going to do about this flag issue?" [As governor, he had "refused to order a daily recital of the Pledge of Allegiance in public school classrooms," writes Germond. "Republicans were depicting this as evidence of a lack of patriotism."] Michael said, "Oh, Jack, that's crazy. Nobody's going to believe it." But they did. |
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