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Originally posted by: MavKikiNYC
Newsweek: Election 2004
Long, multi-part article (with more installments to come) with many good details filling out the impressions we already had about the 2004 campaign.
Among the more interesting nuggets:
1) Kerry was a doomed, indecisive loser.
2) Teresa is a nut, who was a huge negative drag on Kerry's candidacy.
3) Howard Dean is a lunatic.
4) Bill Clinton advised Kerry to campaign IN FAVOR of a consitutional amendment to deny same-sex couple equal rights. (To his meager credit, Kerry never considered doing it.) The hope that Kerry could pick up crucial swing-voters in battleground states, confirming that Slick Willie is a black-hearted liar who'd screw anything for a vote (and conversely, vote for anything that would screw him). Let it never again be uttered in error that Clinton was an advocate for civil rights.
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Kerry did play it too close, not giving a reason to vote for him but rather only a reason to vote against Bush.
As Kerry's position was for all intent the same as Bush on gay marriages (opposed them), the endorsement of a Constitutional Amendment would not be much of a change but rather would have provided new fodder for the "flip flop" charge. Kerry had expressed his position that an Amendment was not needed and stayed with it, showing your assertion no.1 as false.