Reply #15: Politically correct. Idealogically wrong. [View All]

Look, let's face it. The vast majority of Americans have now been told to believe that Al Jazeera is nothing more than a terrorist propaganda machine. If there is an Al Jazeera banner, swing voters may look at it and then hear Bush brownshirts talk about Kerry as Bin Laden's choice and see that banner as an affirmation of the smear.

While free speech is important and a part of the core values of the Democratic Party, being cognizant of the attitudes of the voters is also just as important.

It just sucks that our media consistently panders to the lowest common denominator and ends up lowering the rest of those who don't take the time to seek out alternative information sources down to that level.

We'd better get used to the so-called "run to the middle" because this is what we're are going to see over the next few months in a big way from Kerry and if he wants to win this election he can't call a sitting President a liar (not yet anyways...as things in Iraq continue to deteriorate), he can't call for immediate withdrawal of troops (because "nascar dads" will consider this cowardly), he can't call Bush AWOL (because we have no proof of this...maybe Bush wasn't AWOL...if Kerry calls him AWOL and then Bush pulls out a ream of docs he's been holding back then it will backfire on Kerry).

Let's keep our eye on the prize folks. We need to win this one and if that means moving to the center on certain issues it's worth it.