"Senator FlipFlop"

John Kerry political cartoon.

Mar. 3, 2004...

The title of presumptive nominee will now be added to Senator John Kerry’s moniker in all press statements.

Despite the courteous call from President Bush congratulating Kerry, we can expect a long, bitter and brutal campaign for the next eight months. Kerry showed us the tenor in his acceptance speech in Washington, D.C.

"George Bush, who promised to become a uniter, has become the great divider," Kerry said. "He proposed to amend the Constitution of the United States for political purposes, and we say that he has no right to misuse the most precious document in our history in an effort to divide this nation and distract us from our goals. We resoundingly reject the politics of fear and distortion,"

He also said, "Tonight the message could not be clearer. All across our country, change is coming to America. We have no illusions about the Republican attack machine and what our opponents have done in the past and what they may try to do in the future. But I know that together, we are equal to this task."

Kerry has continued to increase his one-liner bashes of Bush in the last week and his accompanying vitriolic statements are sure to produce negative ads from the bush campaign once they have re-built the Presidents positives.

Kerry is most vulnerable to the charge of the most liberal Senator in Congress. He is also vulnerable to his many flip-flops on positions. His greatest problem are his votes to gut defense and intelligence programs and his votes to kill vital weapons programs.

Bush remains most vulnerable to historical events in the war and the economy.

We can expect Kerry to undertake massive fund-raising efforts to reload his campaign coffers, and this may fuel further concerns about Kerry’s real positions on issues that were anti-business and once again make him vulnerable to the charge of Senator Flip-Flop.