"Maxprop" wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote in message

I don't really believe Kerry is an extremist liberal, but he certainly is
about as far left as anyone in the Senate these days, by virtue of his
voting record. That said, he has a long way to go to be as extreme as
Michael Moore. But in this particular campaign there is so much rhetoric

I was comparing Kerry to his cohorts in Congress.
You are right, he is nowhere as extremist as Moore.

coming from the far left--Kerry really has not distanced himself from the
likes of Moore, Franken, and Dean--that it is easy to equate the
Kerry/Edwards campaign with the extremists.
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Now Moore is really scary. If Kerry has denounced
him, I'd feel a lot better about Kerry. When he didn't
I had to place him over there with Moore. Kerry really
isolated him from much of America with that.

The numerous groups who track voting records look
at the entire bill being voted on and then access whether
it is good or bad for that particular group. And they
give a rating of 0 to 100. Kerry popped out as tied at
one extreme with 93. That makes him extremist.

It makes him ostensibly the most liberal senator, but an extremist?

If he is at one extreme in the Senate, then how far to the left
would he go if unchecked? Since he won't declare his position,
or take the NPAT test, we have no idea what he will do!

It would be tough to paint Kerry as anything other than a liberal. He

That is what they are trying to do. It's funny because hear we have
a man, that is extremely liberal, who won the party nominiation
because of this, and yet tries to hide it.

certainly is no centrist, nor is John E. This is the most liberal ticket
the democrats have had since McGovern.

Traditionally liberals have a tough time getting elected in this country,
at
least since LBJ. Even Clinton saw this and placed his campaign rhetoric
only slightly left of center. Kerry simply has too much baggage to pass
himself off as a centrist. He is a liberal, and he seems to make no bones
about it. If one is for bigger government and higher taxes, he's their
man.

Max