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It\u2019s interesting, he left out what his mainstream values are: surrender U.S. national security to the United Nations, expand the federal government at all costs, get the government in charge of as much of people\u2019s lives as possible, cut national defense, eliminate weapons systems, destroy and cut back on intelligence gathering operations. Those are the mainstream values of John Kerry, Tennessee and Virginia. Not yours. <\/p>\n

I also played for you a Jeff Greenfield sound bite from CNN, where he compares Kerry\u2019s speech to Clinton (which I didn\u2019t hear) and also says that Kerry is ‘striking general election themes.\u2019 That\u2019s mainstream press code language for moving to the center. <\/line>But, if he\u2019s already beginning to run a mainstream general election campaign, my friends, code lingo for moving to the center, are the nation\u2019s liberals going to want to hear that? They haven\u2019t cared about any of that; they haven\u2019t even been listening to Kerry on issues. There\u2019s not a one of these voters that can tell you one thing Kerry stands for because it hasn\u2019t mattered. All they\u2019re voting for is somebody that they think can beat Bush. If he\u2019s already going to start moving to the center, you\u2019re going to have a bunch of liberals who think they have been scammed. Once these Democrats get over the Christmas-morning rush of opening their presents with the guy they think can beat Bush, the cavalry is going to fight back here, and there are going to be some things about Kerry these people don\u2019t know yet.<\/line><\/p>\n

In the audio link below, I read heavily from a piece<\/a> by William Saletan at Slate.com, headlined, “Kerried Away.” Part of Saleten\u2019s point is that Kerry is not actually more electable than John Edwards, but that Democrats have glommed onto Kerry, because he won a few primaries. What he\u2019s setting up here is that Democrats may be nominating the wrong guy in terms of real electability, based on who\u2019s got the broader appeal elsewhere. It\u2019s really Edwards. They\u2019re going with Kerry simply because Kerry has demonstrated he can win, they think, because he\u2019s won a couple of early Democrat primaries.<\/line> I\u2019m guaranteeing you that Terry McAuliffe is on the phone begging Edwards to stay in but don\u2019t run against Kerry. He must be telling him to run to set himself up in the future, but keep the horse race going so the media will continue to cover these primaries, continue to cover the big states, Super Tuesday, then California, New York. &lt;i>We need press coverage on this and we\u2019ll pay you back here for this, little Johnny, but just make sure that Kerry is opposed so it looks like he\u2019s really fighting off some contenders and really winning big so we can really sway what\u2019s happening out there.&lt;\/I> <\/line>That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. And you know, it may well be that John Edwards is the worst thing that could have ever happened to Hillary Clinton, too, because before all this is said and done, John Edwards may be the preferred nominee next time around, not Hillary.<\/line><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s interesting, he left out what his mainstream values are: surrender U.S. national security to the United Nations, expand the federal government at all costs, get the government in charge of as much of people\u2019s lives as possible, cut national defense, eliminate weapons systems, destroy and cut back on intelligence gathering operations. 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