Ann Althouse says the message out of Connecticut is that there’s no such thing as a liberal hawk. She wonders what Hillary is thinking. Good question!
Meanwhile, a commenter on her site nails it:
- Pastor_Jeff said…
- Kos’ personal appearance in Lamont’s commercial is fascinating. What’s the value of this from a marketing or political standpoint?
- Is Kos personally a selling point for voters? What does it communicate that the consultant breaks into the commercial to deliver people for Ned, sits on the couch with him (while everyone else is standing), tells the candidate to “hurry it up” and has the final shot focus on himself?
- The camera even moves away from Ned during his policy statements to follow the Kos crowd.You could not craft a more obvious statement about who really matters.
In an interview later, Mr. Kerrey praised students for showing restraint. “They could have done all sorts of things under the umbrella of guerilla politics to destroy the event, and they didn’t,” he said.
Onstage, however, he challenged them to understand what it means to have the courage of your convictions:
Kerrey later retook the stage to praise McCain and Rohe’s speeches as “two acts of bravery,” while suggesting the hecklers weren’t nearly as courageous as those who took the stage.
“Will you stand and say what you believe when you know that heckling and loudness and boos will arise?” Kerrey asked.
Those are the words of a real “values” politician.
Bob Kerrey, or some Democrat like him—who challenges the assumptions of a self-satisfied, self-regarding culture and who leads by example—for 2008.
