IS the ABCNote correct that Kerry has made 14 major errors in week?

The ABCNote lists:

1. Making comments about the "Crooks,", saying "'I actually did vote for the $87 billion," and the "more leaders" quotes, with poor handling of the aftermath.

2. Sound bite slogans - or "a coherent, unified message" is still needed.

3. Video of every Kerry move is not being made, so that their was a failure of his campaign to successfully tape the original "leaders" quote and "nip the matter in the bud".

4. Thinking that the press would look at a war hero versus AWOL and not back AWOL as he took Kerry's "bring it on" rhetoric, and started a debate on national security as Kerry left on vacation.

5. "Failing to take a page from the Dean campaign in the fall of 2003 by not staying ahead of the story" - this one is just a bit judgmental.

6. Having Dean serve as a surrogate on a media conference call on national security (the ABCNOTE calls Deans comment on Spain "bizarro" - and claims Dean couldn't even stay on his OWN message so it was obvious that he couldn't stay on Kerry's message)

7. Failing to instantly repudiate Dean's remark.

8. Buying a jockstrap in front of the press corps. Just weird. - Gee, these media whores just proved they don't have the balls to take on their right wing GOP editors and managers.

9. Not more aggressively checking his instinct to equivocate and parse (see mistake 1), even if that equivocation might have some degree of intellectual soundness (finally, the ABCNote - in my opinion, has a point).

10. Waiting too long to put out Holbrooke, Richardson, and others to push back on the "leaders" quote.

11. Going off on vacation. It's unavoidable, and goodness knows Kerry deserves a break and that some of his verbal errors were probably owing to fatigue, but now might not be the best time, with the Iraq stuff swirling out there … ..

12. Failure to go back in time in a time machine and quit the Senate to run for governor or work in a business in the late '80s - thereby limiting all this votes 'n' quotes exposure. (Granted, this one would have been tougher to pull off than some of the others … .)

13. Not fully affecting the look and feel and stature of an actual, full-fledged general election standard bearer.

14. By making all these mistakes, squandering the Post -nomination window of attention and frittering away the momentum he had built up. Not to mention -- to a large extent overshadowing Spanish deaths, more killed in Iraq, the Medicare controversies, and other Bush problems about which more donkey hay probably could have been made.

Not fully realizing that by making all these mistakes, the door was opened for the Bush-Cheney campaign to get some of its mojo back, allowing it to get a much-needed shot of confidence -- for themselves and those skittish Hill allies.

Granted this was NY Post parody by the NOTE (I think), this was an interesting list!

and they would find fault. :mad:

...would be the likely headline.

But let's face it, he waffles too damn much, and he needs to say that Bush was WRONG to invade Iraq, period. If that means admitting he was wrong to vote to enable him, even better. Kerry should apologize for that vote, as should the rest of them.

n/t

if kerry had his way" would have more impact.

The one thing I do think was bad was his statement about voting for the $87 billion.I saw that on that news and just cringed.

but it is also Big Media's Common Wisdom. During the nomination process the Note was frequently to be found making acerbic comments about the Dean campaign. Unfortunatly, a lot of what they said had a grain of truth and too many of us, in the Dean campaign, myself included, did not listen. We were too focused on shooting the messanger rather than dealing with the problems.

There is still a long way to go before November but I hope the Kerry campaign does what the Dean campaign did not, which is Take Note.

:-)

CNN is all-Bush, all the time. Cheney over and over again trashing Kerry. All the networks have jumped on the bandwagon.

Let me off the spinning amusment ride.

according to the whores - corporate fucks

...of Bush errors??????

and bombard them with it?

Hell, we could probably find 100.

Paraphase or add: "Failure to stop looking and acting like a simian idiot."

Hell, there's several * gaffes each day.

this shit is no surprise coming from them.

you should not be so quick to shoot the messenger.

Very tough love; or love-hate.

They like that he's a "pro," as most of the cynical DC press do, but therefore hold him to a very high standard.

Also complicating things is that all of The Note people are buddies w/ Jim Jordan.

The only major error I see listed here IMHO is number nine.

I think Kerry's true errors relate to not embracing Spain election as democracy at work and not backing up Howard Dean's truthful analysis.

There are no mistake-free campaigns. There are only winning campaigns, and losing campaigns.

I'm not watching him 24/7

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I stopped when they decided to screw over Kucinich and then get all huffy when people actually got upset when a political news read decided to not cover one of the candidates. Keep in mind this was way before anyone (but Graham) dropped out of the race.

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I'd find half that stuff very hard to believe coming from a source like that.

The press who write about these so-called "gaffs" are stenographers for the RNC. Check out www.dailyhowler.com for detailed analysis.