11.04.2004

Keep it simple, stupid. Advice for Democrats from William Saletan:
Do what the Republicans did in 1998. Get simple. Find a compelling salesman and get him ready to run for president in 2008. Put aside your quibbles about preparation, stature, expertise, nuance, and all that other hyper-sophisticated garbage that caused you to nominate Kerry. You already have legions of people with preparation, stature, expertise, and nuance ready to staff the executive branch of the federal government. You don't need one of them to be president. You just need somebody to win the White House and appoint them to his administration. And that will require all the simplicity, salesmanship, and easygoing humanity they don't have.

The good news is, that person is already available. His name is John Edwards...
(Thanks, Ben.)

2 comments:

tiny robot said...

what about Hillary? Too polarizing?

Anonymous said...

Good question. Maybe too polarizing (although George Bush is about as polarizing as you can get, and he's heading for term #2). Maybe smart. Sean Hannity has already started a Hillary Watch Countdown to 2008. Either the Right's afraid of her, or their eager to start demonizing.