My biggest arguments with President Bush's first term were with his policies that hurt free trade. The steel tariffs pandered to protectionists and abandoned key principles. I said on this blog that it made me miss President Clinton.
Looking at Senators Kerry and Edwards, all is forgiven. These guys are real protectionists, offering a return to Clinton's tax rates but not a commitment to trade.
George Will nails it:
John Kerry, who is given to complaining that questions about his policies impugn his patriotism, has said smarmily that as president he will "appoint a U.S. trade representative who is an American patriot." Zoellick, the man Kerry slandered, is President Bush's trade representative, and on one day last month in Geneva he did more discernible good for his country than Kerry has done in 20 years in the Senate.