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Originally Posted by arsenal
We all know to well how polarizing the last Presidential election was. It was between 2 people who where on opposite ends of the spectrum.
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I pretty much agreed with what you said, except for this statement. Bush and Kerry were not on opposite ends of the spectrum. Its actually scary how close these two are on the political map. Its even scarier when you look at their up bringing and how they got to where they are. The fact that people like to say how far a part they are in the political spectrum scares me. Bush and Kerry are really next door neighbors on the city map of political ideology. Frankly, this is the Democrats greatest weakness, is the fact they cannot differentiate themselves enough from the Republicans. There were just too many people that looked at Kerry and saw nothing that differentiated him from Bush, and they chose status quo. Kerry never took a stand on issues that really made a significant departure from the path the Bush admin was on. He never took a stand and said "this is what makes America great again". That lack of differentiation killed Kerry, not the fact that they were on polar extremes.