Kerry Over

Great line on how odd it was for Sen. John Kerry to start his presidential campaign in South Carolina: "Massachusetts Democrats don't stop in South Carolina unless the car runs out of gas on the way to Disney World."

Comments

[Brad S]

The problem with Kerry (as well as a bunch of Dems and Repubs like him) is that he's been living inside the Beltway, immersed in all the bullshit and spin that goes with it, for so long that I don't think he could survive outside of it.

[joe]

"But South Carolina had two things that John Kerry liked. An early presidential primary. And a big old warship to stand in front of."

Three things: it has lots of veterans, too.

[Brad S]

I'm sure Kerry's paid team of PR and marketing people for his campaign worked long and hard, had many committee meetings and focus groups, to decide where Kerry should announce his candidacy, what the forum should be, who should be on hand, and what he should say.

This is what's wrong with politics today. Mainstream political discourse throughout the political spectrum (left, right, center) is 0% about the issues and 100% about marketing. Get the right photo opportunity. At the right time. With the right special interest groups on hand. In the right state. Use the right catch-words and sound-bytes (i.e. "for the children", "served my country", "protect our senior citizens", etc). Speak slowly and loudly. Smile a lot.

In my opinion, focus groups should be used by marketing professionals in order to better be able to sell us soft drinks, not presidential candidates.

[Anonymous]

As a marketing professional I can tell you that most fucus groups are actually useless and helping sell anything!

[Anonymous]

See Hold The Mayo for a John Kerry accuracy check.

[joe]

Do you think anon wrote fucus groups (fuck us groups) on purpose?