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Article: Insecurity blanket: Kerry's foreign-policy problem was really his party's. It's time for Democrats to get serious once and for all.(National Security)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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ANYONE PURPORTING TO TELL YOU THE REASON JOHN KERRY lost the election is either fooling himself or fooling you. The origins of any close defeat are necessarily multicausal, and any number of different things could have won it for Kerry.
The media chose to focus on the party's "values" problem. To be sure, that problem exists. But the focus on values misses the other important factor in this election: national security. The Democratic Party has simply never recovered the credibility on national-security issues it lost during the Vietnam era.
The security problem is not--as the right would have it--that the Democrats are still saddled by Vietnam-era ...