Reply #17: I don't find the idea strange at all. [View All]

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I've been watching politics in the USA for forty some years now.
I voted for Kerry, but I refused to give the DNC money because I
half-expected he would run to lose. I'm sorry to be right. When
you have seen it as many times as I have, you learn the signs.
Repubs run to lose too, think Bob Dole.

It's not so much a matter of running to lose as making winning a
lesser priority than maintaining the status quo, not providing the
people with a real choice, not challenging the Washington consensus.

It's not necessarily deliberate, some of it is just timidity and
group-think at work. Kerry quitting like he did was the most
egregious example I can think of though, after taking all that money
and making all those promises, and then saying pull together and get
behind the pResident. What a fighter, eh?