The three main types of Kerry bashers here at DU [View All]

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First, let me say that I appreciate all of those that worked their ass off trying to beat Bush this time around. We DID win, although that's a victory we must remember in our hearts and use that energy for 2006 and 2008. And beyond...

The thing that really gets me about the apparent need to Kerry-bash from some people are somewhat broken down into three basic thought groups.

The first are the people that can't seem to even fathom the idea that their candidate that they suffered through disheartening defeat actually LOST...and lost big...and in some cases EARLY in the primary season.

Tinfoil hat all you want about how some states decided the choice too early, or worse, don't have a clue how a caucus is run. If some candidates were such "hot shit", why did they run out of money early in the campaign and even have campaign directors not even return the candiate's urgent, desperate and repeated phone calls.

It's like saying your race car would have won the Indy 500 if you hadn't just had time to put the wheels on the goddamn car.

Sour grapes makes for a sour whine. Turn the page, please. I back the message and mission of the DFA...that's what counts now. Move on.

The second category are the armchair warriors who somehow think that Kerry had been doing nothing about the Ohio, Florida and other region recount issues after the election.

We were gamed by the Repugs' connections to BBV machines, Diebold and the evidence will be presented in due course. I remember predicting back in the early summer that the Repugs had already planned on stealing the election and that we all needed to get as many people out as possible to vote for Kerry in order to create a large pad of votes the counter the game the Repugs were going to play. I remember Kerry mentioning the issue in speeches where I saw him on the trail.

Kerry, Edwards and their combined legal team were not only on the street looking for clues, evidence and names after the election, but were mobilized before the election.

Again, if Repug-ruled counties decide to use BBV machines and other tactics to prevent democracy to function, there is only so much one can do without proof. The proof has to be after a crime was committed.

Kerry knew that he didn't have enough votes to turn over the results of the election...yeah, he could say exit polls were different...but that's not votes or legal reliable proof.

There were many press releases and other content that showed that the Kerry/Edwards campaign was trying to find out what happened. But without the choice of counting air as a vote, making exit poll numbers a legitimate way of legally electing someone or having the possibility of a re-vote, the grim result of yet another stolen election is the only choice.

Thirdly, the type of Kerry basher that gets my goat are the ones that spew the same old tired unproven, distorted accusations that Karl Rove spewed and polluted the airwaves with regarding Kerry. Usually these accusations (like "flip-flopper") are vacuous exercises in Hannityesque dogma based on Coulteresque yelps, yips and yowls.

Kerry did well and came close. I have grown through all the post-election disappointments to see where he could go and how he tried to go.

We have to push ahead. Please consider Kerry an ally to the progressive side of democracy...look at his high ratings in various political benchmarks for being a strong liberal and a progressive soul.

Bush ran a VERY dirty campaign and had the willing corporate media alongside him to suffocate and suppress Kerry's message and aid Karl Rove's lies and cast of accomplices, proselytes and bootlickers willing to hosanna the agitprop of the Media Mephistophelians behind the elusive curtain.

Any candidate that the Democrats would have run would have been subjected to the same level of peculiar impalements of character assassination and fictionalized culpability.

The willing corporate media manikins and marionettes that mouthpiece the Repug Echo Chamber like obedient automatons would have allowed for the same debauched perfidiousness on the TV screens that seem to be seen as the "News".

The only thing that would be fair and balanced would be those that dangled from a gallows pole after Jeffersonian justice was wrought.

But I digress...

Kerry has proven through his career that he is willing to investigate crimes and misdemeanors of the Reagan and Bush I administrations. I know he would like to continue that tradition and get to the bottom of this stolen election.

Have faith in your allies, even after they have been decreed as "defeated". That's when they need you most. We need each other (bruises, scabs and all) to get ahead in the next needed progressive political missions.