The Kerry-supporter challenge, part II
I am somewhat bemused by the comment responses to my challenge to Kerry supporters to submit to me a guest post explaining in positive terms why they support Kerry (rather than merely oppose Bush).

No one yet seems willing to give it a go. Joseph Marshall, for example, responded by issuing a counter-challenge:

I'd like to see you do a head to head comparison of the actual accomplishments (and I mean REAL accomplishments--not just things proposed and not started, or started and not finished) of the George W. Bush Administration to ANY four years of Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Nixon/Ford, Reagan, or George H.W. Bush.

Nice dodge, Joseph, but sorry, that dog don't hunt, as James Carville was so fond of saying. Long-term readers of my blog know that I have never endorsed Bush for reelection and in fact have made more than one argument against it (here and here and here, for example.

Besides, the issue at hand is not whether Bush stacks up against Eisenhower or Lincoln or Reagan. Clearly he doesn't. Unfortunately, Honest Abe can't run. But neither can the original JFK, and whatever the present JFK is, he ain't JFK.

The invitation stands: Give me positive reasons to vote for Kerry, based on Kerry's own record and words. Please see all the terms for submissions before writing. (Basically they say to be published the essay must be reasonably well written, no more than 1,500 words, and submitted with intact, revealed html code. Also, "Bush is lousy, Kerry is good" is not convincing, since gratuitous assertions may be just as gratuitously denied. Just explain why and how Kerry is right, with links to Kerry's speeches or campaign releases to back up your claims.)

As the say, PUOSU!

by Donald Sensing, 8/22/2004 01:05:05 PM. Permalink |