There's no nice way to say it: John Kerry is a political klutz. It comes from having a long-time safe district in one of the most liberal states in the union where he never had to subject himself to public scrutiny. Once in the spotlight, he seemed to forget that it wasn't about him, his life, his heroism, his service, his boat, his medals, his band of brothers, his time in Vietnam.
Starting off with his life of privilege wasn't the best way to win a blue collar audience. Finishing off his speech with yet another reference to his Vietnam days on that boat in an attempt to make himself into a JFK PT-109 hero fell flat. Incredibly, at one point he cut off his audience's chant of "USA USA USA USA" when the party is desperate to relaim patriotism. In between, he hit every focus group shopping list at least once and pandered to every Democrat special interest group at least twice. It was a speech written by a committee with the personal bits written by Kerry, delivered by a man with clumsy political instincts.
I suspect the Dems are cringing.
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