Let's Get Positive! Why Kerry Should Win

It is one of the canards of this campaign that the reason why Kerry talks so much about Vietnam is that he doesn't have a Senatorial record on which to run. (While I would like to limit myself to saying only positive things about Kerry, I must confess that some of the fault for this lies with Kerry's own campaign, which has not done enough to emphasize the strengths of Kerry's Senatorial career). The truth is that Kerry's Senatorial record is a very impressive one. In today's political environment, John Kerry is a surprising and refreshing alternative to the choices with which we are usually presented; a case can be made that he is, in fact, about as good a Presidential candidate as we are going to get.

Democrats should stop looking at Kerry as nothing more than the guy who is running against Bush. In my next few blogs, I will be discussing the Kerry record, a record that shows that he is eminently suited to be elected President.