I'm not sure anyone is ready for another John Kerry presidential campaign. Apparently the senator is pondering one, but he had a clean shot two years ago, and we're still paying the price for his inability to exploit it.
Still, Kerry apparently has a new, terse and catchy ten-point plan, and before you snicker, hear him out (from today's Times):
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"Tell the truth. Fire the incompetents. Find Osama bin Laden and secure our ports and our homeland. Bring our troops home from Iraq. Obey the law and protect our civil rights," Mr. Kerry said in ticking off his list, which also included supporting health care, education, lobbying reform and alternatives to oil, as well as reducing the deficit. |
Sounds like a plan to me. I wish the 10 points were out there on Kerry's web site, but I couldn't find them anywhere.
If the Democrats are rooting around for a 2006 equivalent to the Republicans' 1994 "Contract with America," they could adopt these points, which have the virtues of directness and good sense -- and which neatly underscore the Bush administration's abject failures to be honest, competent, to defeat our enemies, to bring an ill-considered war to an end, and on down the list. It's good rhetoric, and that's something Democrats could use.
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