Some Final Thoughts on the DNC

[MarkDel]

I agree with Soulty, and I don't think it sells.

I agree with you and Soulty about the SUBSTANTIVE TRUTH about this Convention, but I disagree on whether or not it will sell. I believe it will sell because the undecided voters are the people who don't pay enough attention to see through this "dog and pony' show that the DNC just put forth. I think this is the smartest convention they have run since 1964. Granted, most of their recent conventions have been disastrous left wing love fests, but this one was brilliantly scripted...even if it was, of course, a total lie of what they really stand for.

[MarkDel]

Granted, most of their recent conventions have been disastrous left wing love fests, but this one was brilliantly scripted...even if it was, of course, a total lie of what they really stand for.

Isn't that to be expected at any convention? I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain don't exactly stand for the Republican mainstream either.

To some extent you are right, but it's a matter of "degree" and guys like Rudy and Arnold are a LOT closer to the Republican mainstream than you might think. Also, there's a VAST difference between putting "diverse" speakers on the roster and having people say COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things at the Convention than they do in the normal political discourse. So while Rudy and Arnold may express views not quite in the Republican mainstream, that is a FAR cry from having overtly Left Wing people say center/right things over and over and over again.

[MarkDel]

If it was what the DNC stood for I wouldn't be an independent.

I loved all of the political curveballs Kerry used in his speech.  He would often just ignore the heart of the issue and pretend like another perspective is the obvious one and then draw simple conclusions from that.  He did it time and time again, an obvious example is the political pessimism part.  He just pretended like it was obvious that the Bush administration thought that the current situation is the best the country can do and then drew the simple conclusion that "we can do better" is far more optimistic.

Lunar,

Do you mean that you would be a Democrat if that was what they were really like?