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September 22, 2004

Kerry and the Draft

In 41 days, Americans will go to the polls to select their president for the next four years, and with only 40 days left to campaign, John Kerry still can't come up with any better reason for people to vote for him than the idea that President Bush will do bad things. His latest trick: claiming that President Bush will bring back the draft.

Interestingly enough, Kerry has decided to bring this issue up just as somebody is flooding American campuses with duplicitous claims about...President Bush trying to reinstate the draft. Betsy does a fine job of explaining why that isn't going to happen. What's quite amusing, however, is that the only people militating for a draft right now are Democrats, so Kerry has handed the Bush campaign yet another issue they can use to hammer him with.

Imagine the commercial: John Kerry says the draft is a bad idea. But his own colleagues in the Senate are pushing for a bill that would reinstate the draft. How can John Kerry lead the country when he can't even lead his own party?

Seriously, who is running the Kerry campaign?

Update: Via Instapundit, it appears that Kerry's comment came in response to a question by a reporter. So, assuming that the Kerry campaign isn't behind the email campaign, and that seems a reasonable assumption, they're not setting themselves up for another stupid error.