Reply #25: ::Sighs:: I know, I'm a Supporter. [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

I love John Kerry and I think he's one of our greatest senators. He could have been our strongest candidate. He's so smart, has such poise and command of the issues. He's one of the most reliable progressives we have and has such a logical, analytical mind -- I still maintain that he'd be a truly great president if elected -- he's the best potential president of the bunch.

But I've been so disappointed in his campaign. I'm hoping he can pull through. I don't know. His only chance is for him to improve his #'s in both NH and IA by the time of the caucases, pull a 2nd or a 1st in Iowa, get buzz and then tie with Dean or go ahead of him in NH. But it's very much a longshot. And he's abandoned his organization in other states afterward, so as of now, he has no place to go after NH, unless he somehow manages to win NH and get enough buzz to go into contention.

I'm resigned to his losing to be honest. I hope he'll win it, but I will eagerly support Dean, Clark, or whoever wins. I just wish Kerry had been the one. If, as is most likely, he loses, I intend to post a long post about why his campaign failed. There are so many reasons, which I'll go into detail then, but basically Kerry's vote on the IWR lost his support to Dean. It hurt him more than Gephardt and Edwards b/c Kerry had planned to run on national security and foreign policy, his strongest area. Gep and Edwards have run on domestic issues, so it's been more neutralized. Kerry, on the other hand, is forced to continually defend and explain his war vote and since his reasoning was complex (logical, but tough to explain) he's been hampered by it.