QUOTE: Brian Keegan on Centerfield has a nice recap of what yesterday's primaries mean, especially for centrists:
"As I face the probability of a Kerry nomination, I find myself wondering whether Kerry could be the guy who would make me vote for a republican. Thankfully, my vote doesn't matter in Massachusetts.
Reasons to dislike Bush include his status as pork-king, his overly pro-business give-aways, his presiding over further erosions of civil rights, his willingness to pander to the religious right and stick the gov't's big nose into social matters it should steer clear of, and the likelihood that he'd continue this trend with the judges he'd appoint in a 2nd term. And I think Bush looks relatively weak.
Yet I have a hard time seeing Kerry as anything other than cannon fodder. The democrats are poised to serve up a condescending, pedantic, uncharismatic, upper class northeastern egghead liberal. Will the centrists he needs to win over in order to have a shot at winning buy a post-nomination conversion act on the Iraq war and national security? I seriously doubt it. Can he win without doing it? I don't think so."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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