Reply #100: Uh huh, sure [View All]

Yes, let's all be perfectly ok with the fact that our elected leaders, who are supposed to be smarter than us and work in our best interests, ignored the mountains of lies Bush used to push his case for war, lies that even I as a lowly convenience store clerk was able to spot a mile away. Let's support Dems who refuse to stand up for millions of people who 30 years ago would have been our base. Let's stand up for the Joe Liebermans, Evan Bayhs, and Zell Millers of the world who might as well be honorary Pioneers and Rangers due to the frequency with which they cover Bush's ass. Let's keep supporting people who are so crippled by polls and focus groups and consultants that they refuse to attack Bush no matter how weak he becomes.

I hold John Kerry to a much higher standard than any of the other Dems who voted for the war, because of all of them, he knows just how insidious the military industrial complex is. He knows how ruthless the BFEE is. And he had the guts 30 years ago to stand up to the government who sent him off to be cannon fodder in a bullshit war. And despite all this past history, John Kerry still voted for the resolution, and you're telling me he never thought for a second that Bush would abandon diplomacy, put together a slap-dash "coalition", and just go in anyway? Of all the people I would expect to stand up for us, John Kerry let me down the most. He knew better, but he acquiesced with the rest of the bend-over-Dems, and now my friends are paying the price.

So please, don't give me any bullshit lectures about how I don't understand how our government works. I know quite well how it works, and its gears are greased with the blood of my peers.

And for you and other Dean bashers to keep bringing Dean into this is just downright pathetic. The issue here is that this is a dumb move that won't have any traction with people who aren't already committed to Kerry, and that despite the fact that Bush is a chickenhawk sack of shit, Kerry trying to contrast himself and Bush in such a pedestrian manner will be completely lost on most people. What the attention span deficient swing voters will see is Kerry "copying" Bush. I don't like that that's how it will be interpreted, but it will, with a lot of "help" from the whore mafia. But hey, it wouldn't be the first time you guys dragged Dean's name in the mud when the discussion wasn't even about him. That's SOP by now.