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But we CAN tell you EXACTLY what the Gang of 500 is thinking about the race overall, because three of Maureen Dowd's paragraphs today capture it perfectly—in her column on the two candidates:
"An incumbent who sticks with the wrong decisions based on the wrong facts versus a challenger who seems unable to stick to one side of any decision, right or wrong ..."
"Bush strategists seem to believe that the worse Mr. Bush makes things, the better off he is, because nervous Americans will cling to the obstinate president they know over the vacillating challenger they don't know."
"Mr. Kerry errs on the side of giving the answer he thinks people want to hear, even as Mr. Bush errs on the side of giving the answer he expects people to accept as true."
Never forget that Ms. Dowd is a stellar reporter, even when you want to strangle her.
- Mark Halperin, Marc Ambinder, David Chalian, Anne Chiappetta, Jan Simmonds, Teddy Davis, Karen Travers, and Alexandra Avnet, with V. Brown, T. Peck and R. Thomasson, "We Keep Pretending That There's Nothing Wrong," ABCNEWS.com: The Note April 29, 2004
posted April 29, 2004 in politics, print. 2001