Wednesday, January 28, 2004
And Kerry does it again: derailing frontrunner Howard Dean in New Hampshire, a state famous for tripping up frontrunners was quite a feat. I must say, as a partisan Republican, I am rather hoping Kerry begins to stumble a bit now. While I would never want Howard Dean to actually be the nominee, it would be nice if he would win South Carolina just to shake things up a bit. Or better yet have Lieberman or Edwards take South Carolina and Dean bow out. Anything to shake things up so uniting beyond the eventual nominee John Kerry will be difficult.
That said, I don't think there is any doubt left that Kerry is in the strongest position and Dean is what people first suspected he was: a left-wing lunatic from a tiny state where liberals try all their experiments out and then twist media coverage to make it look like it works. To be fair, John Kerry is also a left-wing lunatic but he at least has some kind of mental stability, albeit hard to find at times, especially when he is working the crowd. But given my observations of the last Democratic primary, I predict Kerry will continue to win and win big. Bill Bradley was supposed to give Al Gore a run for his money in 2000, but when Gore carried Iowa and New Hampshire easily, all the other states (including Bradley's home state of NJ) lined up behind Gore. I suspect the same thing will happen here, and would not be at all surprised if Howard Dean is making a concession speech sometime in the next week or so.
That said, I don't think there is any doubt left that Kerry is in the strongest position and Dean is what people first suspected he was: a left-wing lunatic from a tiny state where liberals try all their experiments out and then twist media coverage to make it look like it works. To be fair, John Kerry is also a left-wing lunatic but he at least has some kind of mental stability, albeit hard to find at times, especially when he is working the crowd. But given my observations of the last Democratic primary, I predict Kerry will continue to win and win big. Bill Bradley was supposed to give Al Gore a run for his money in 2000, but when Gore carried Iowa and New Hampshire easily, all the other states (including Bradley's home state of NJ) lined up behind Gore. I suspect the same thing will happen here, and would not be at all surprised if Howard Dean is making a concession speech sometime in the next week or so.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 7:17 AM 
