The John Kerry Syndrome

While reading this article found on Yahoo! News: Granholm's Lead Now Double-Digits, I am coining a term that I'll call The John Kerry Syndrome.

Realize that I'm seeing the picture from afar, but I don't believe that Granholm has done anything of real significant value during office. The Michigan economy continues to tank. What has she done besides that?

Enter Dick DeVos, Republican Challenger. I really know nothing about him, but after 4 years of nothing much, I'd expect Michigan would be ready for a change, and I thought DeVos would do pretty well. Looks like I was wrong.

Take a step back to the 2004 Presidential Election. The country was moving toward a referendum on Dubya. Plenty of people thought it was time for a change. Enter challenger John Kerry. Who'd heard of him? I hadn't, but most people were pretty excited that he might have a chance to knock off Dubya.

The more we learned about Senator Kerry, the more we didn't like what we were finding. It's my view that Dubya's reelection was not so much an affirmation of his first 4 years, but an act of desperation -- I felt, and maybe the American People felt, that no matter what our opinion of Bush, we couldn't afford a John Kerry presidency. I'm not going to debate anyone on that.

Is that what's happening in Michigan with Dick DeVos? Does my vast Michigan readership have any comments and insights?

-Kal

(P.S. No offense, Mr. Senator...but I still don't want you as my President.)