Starting This Weekened, It's Showtime for the Kerry Campaign

Starting Friday, the Kerry campaign has to kick into high gear. Labor Day weekend is the traditional start of the presidential campaign season, and I'm looking forward to what the Kerry campaign has in store.

I've heard that Kerry is a great closer of campaigns. Well, beginning Friday, I want to see him do a Mariano Rivera on Bush.

Now it's the time to shine, baby.

I forgot Kerry took off his ads for August so he wouldn't lose his cash advantage.

And yes, he's a superb closer - right around the 5-6 week mark he takes off and leaves everyone in the dust. I was pretty certain that the debates were just going to be awful, but maybe he'll pull some brilliance out of the bag like he did against Governor Weld in the '96 Senate race.

According to the script of every Kerry race (except his first), this is how the campaigns go:

Kerry starts off in a ploddy, stiff, borring style. "Why isn't he doing better?" they all ask. "He should be killing his opponents, but he's lagging."

Then, as in the case of his Senate race in 1996 and in the primaries this year, suddenly, with a few weeks to go, he snaps into gear. Then he leaves everyone behind wondering what happened.

Let's just hope that this isn't the year where he breaks his streak. It would be a bad time to lose touch.

Kerry and everyone in Washington knows that Bush is jumping to invade Iran, their pre-emption in consulting with NATO in the UN is what they should have done last year. Steal Bush's thunder before he gets to unvail his plan for Iran.

I think that they are doing a great job!

This month has been hard to endure, but everyone says Kerry knows how to close the show. After the Republican convention, it's time to start closing!

and take some lessons from Clark and Dean. Today they released four more lengthy, boring press releases, when what they needed was a Bush-bashing sound bite that would jolt the average voter out of his/her chair.

I'm 100% behind Kerry, but his campaign is dropping the ball. I'm not a naysayer, or a doomsdayer, but their incompetence really showed when the White House handed them a gift on a silver platter and it went right over their heads. Here's the email I them sent tonight:

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A 10-second no-holds-barred sound bite is more effective than a 10,000 word press release. Take your cues from Dean and Clark. They know how it's done. Unbelievably, you let this gift from the White House pass you by. Bush declares Iraq a "catastrophic success." It's simple. Repeat over and over again. "It was a catastrophic FAILURE!"

Instead, you have Edwards out there spouting off this clumsy sentence: "He's half right. It was catastrophic to rush to war without a plan to win the peace." blah-bu-de-blah-blah-blah. I've been giving the campaign the benefit of the doubt but I have had about enough. If you guys keep pussy-footing around like this, Kerry will lose the election.

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Seriously, the Kerry camp is failing us, big-time.