[Industrialblog,
September 15, 2004]
John Kerry, on message at last
In the Wall Street Journal, John Kerry argues in a compelling way that the GOP's economic policies are not working. He presents sound criticism and a good, moderate economic plan to replace it. Since the Democrats have credibility in this area [after all, Clinton's economics worked], Kerry has a strong argument to replace Bush.
About time!
Kerry's entire campaign strategy should be two messages, repeated over and over: Bush's economics don't work, and he's used up all his political capital on Iraq. Time for a replacement in economics and a relief pitcher in the War on Terror. That'll work.
Don't play dirty. Don't indulge in Bush-hatred. Don't criticize the president personally. Don't allow your message to get unfocused. Just talk about what you're going to do, point out the very real problems with Bush's record, and why it'll work.
About time!
Kerry's entire campaign strategy should be two messages, repeated over and over: Bush's economics don't work, and he's used up all his political capital on Iraq. Time for a replacement in economics and a relief pitcher in the War on Terror. That'll work.
Don't play dirty. Don't indulge in Bush-hatred. Don't criticize the president personally. Don't allow your message to get unfocused. Just talk about what you're going to do, point out the very real problems with Bush's record, and why it'll work.
:)
Anyhow, having a good economy would seem to require having a plan to keep something like what happened on 9/11/2001 from happening again. Bush appears to have, and it's been working . No more major terrorist attacks like that, and the economy is doing better.
Does John Kerry have a plan to keep 9/11 from happening again? Because if not, he can try to tax businesses more heavily for outsourcing to foreign countries, but it won't be worth shit.
In other words, he wants to pay for medical care by cutting research.
Do you really call that sense?
(By the way, I don't think that it's reasonable to pay attention to what Kerry says as a predictor of what he's going to do. He's a fundamentally dishonest man, so what he says is worthless.
That being said, if he was actually going to have economic policies like Clinton, I'd say that he wouldn't be a major problem, economically. (There are still fiascos like the 10% luxury boat tax which put all sorts of businesses out of business and moved boat production offshore, more or less permanently despite the fact that it was repealed fairly quickly.)