Will we ever again see a real Democrat run for president? [View All]

[realFedUp]

(Kerry gets my vote and my hope that he will
make the changes needed in this country)

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=17218

Randolph T. Holhut: 'Will we ever again see a real Democrat run for president?'
Date: Friday, July 30 @ 09:58:44 EDT

By Randolph T. Holhut

DUMMERSTON, Vt. - In talking to people around where I live, there's a distinct lack of enthusiasm for John Kerry.
Sure, most liberals in Vermont are going to vote for him on Nov. 2. But they will do so only because he's not George W. Bush.

That may be enough to make Kerry the next president, but it certainly isn't enough to inspire people to give him the kind of support that we saw our former governor, Howard Dean, receive last year when he was one of the few Democrats with enough guts to take on President Bush on his ill-fated choice to invade Iraq.

The Deaniacs are in Kerry's corner now, because there's nowhere else to go. To get rid of the worst president in our nation's history, Democrats have to support a man who was one of the founders of the Democratic Leadership Council who supported some of the worst policy ideas of the past decade.

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But I still feel an emptiness. I still see a Democratic Party that is too cautious and too afraid of bold ideas; a party that is trying too hard to repudiate liberalism despite the wreckage of past attempts to appeal to voters with tepid centrism.


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