Reply #78: way to go mary beth, you're blind in one eye and deaf in the other [View All]

[kodi]

only a clueless, elitist politician could have been blind to the damage the swift boat vets could cause from the very first day they hit the news.

many of us in rural america were damned mad as hell for the lacksidasical attitude held by the kerry campaign as this matter engulfed the news in august and september.

even staunch democrats begain to worry that if kerry would not even protect his reputation against such smears, what the hell kind of backbone he had.

this was not a matter of "politics." it went right to the heart of who john kerry was as a man, and to have him vacilate like the prince of denmark even made me question kerry's strength and commitment.

kerry should have come out swinging and put an end to the swift boatie nonsense within a single news cycle.

cahill was not tough minded enough to see reality. she and her campaign staff were so cultural isolated from those voters for whom the swift boat accusations were important, that they dismissed the attacks as so weak as only to sway dumb people.

and pretty much it is this sort of elitism in party leadership howard dean said was killing the party