Footnotes

In conversation this afternoon, I came up with an off-hand comment that later struck me as being Spot.On. I was asked if I had watched any of the democrat's convention this week, and I responded with "No" and went on to explain that I wasn't going to waste my time watching the candidates who will be nothing more than a footnote in the history of American politics by the early morning hours of 3 November. The Kerry / Edwards ticket will be just another obscure answer to some vapid question in some trivia game that will be on the store shelves for the christmas rush.

From what I've seen / heard / read about the donks' convention, it was just more of the same topped off with a generous dollop of ".....and we're not GWB.....". As I opined recently over at Supply Side Politics, hatred of the incumbent is not a viable campaign plank and you can't run based on who you're not. Eventually you have to step up and define who you are and what you stand for and spell out your vision. Which is exactly what the kerry / edwards campaign cannot do if they want to avoid political suicide. Go ask Walter Mondale, who openly supported higher taxes (hey, give Walt some points for being intellectually honest despite the price). If the voting public ever seriously paid attention to who the donks consider rich and taxable, the Liberitarians would come in second in November.

Who are the "rich" who would be called upon to fund a kerry / edwards budget? The democrats define a family of four with a household adjusted gross income over $42,600 as being rich. That's for a family of four. Do the math, people.

More on this later, I've got some research to do