The McGovern Gambit - I'm

The McGovern Gambit - I'm not saying Bush couldn't be vulnerable in the next election. Who knows - we have a double-dip recession, or the battle for Baghdad goes badly, anything can happen. We i>could have a Dem president in '04.

But I'm suspecting that using terms that tacitly to Saddam Hussein or some other tinpot dictator isn't the way to do it.

''What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States,'' Kerry said in a speech at the Peterborough Town Library.

Despite pledging two weeks ago to cool his criticism of the administration once war began, Kerry unleashed a barrage of criticism as US troops fought within 25 miles of Baghdad.

By echoing the ''regime change'' line popular with hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters who have demonstrated across the nation in recent weeks, the Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential contender seemed to be reaching out to a newly invigorated constituency as rival Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont and a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, closes in on Kerry in opinion polls.

Oh, please please please please PLEASE, Democrat party - please please do in '04 what McGovern did in '72. Please line up behind someone who's so far to the left even the trade unions turn up their noses at him. Please nominate someone who's aligned himself with the wackjobs blocking traffic in San Francisco.

Tell you what - you nominate Kerry, I'll pitch a couple bucks in to the Sierra Fund. Deal?

Posted by Mitch at April 3, 2003 09:38 AM