Reply #16: Greetings from a pro-Kerry n00b [View All]

Hi all, I'm new. :hi:

Been lurking for a while, though. The Kerry bashing gives me a sick feeling. Isn't the situation bad enough without turning on our own? Kerry's a very good man with a mostly great record, and I would've been proud to call him President (and who knows, I still might be someday). Imagine how it looks to outsiders to see people within our own party saying such vile things about him right after the election is over. It makes it look like that "flip-flop" charge was true after all--but not about him, about US! It makes us look unprincipled, IMO. How are we supposed to persuade other people to believe in our candidates when it looks like there are so many on our side who never did?

Not that I'm advocating censoring anybody, and I know there's a lot of anger firing in all directions right now, but damn! Does it have to be so much like herding hissy cats all the time?