Frustrated by Kerry [View All]

[RubyCat]

Anyone else share this writers's feelings? I bet Theresa does. Did Kerry have a stroke that obliterated the part of his brain responsible for courage? Shame on him.



http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/946767.htm

The question just hangs there, unanswered: Why did John Kerry capitulate so quickly, after so many people -- especially poor people -- had braved long lines, cold rainy weather and Republican intimidation to record their opposition to the Bush imperium? Why did he throw in the towel when the whole world was watching for a repeat of the stolen election of 2000 -- stolen by the Bush Machine's disenfranchisement of poor blacks in Florida? Why did he give up when the possibility -- not so far-out -- almost immediately arose that Gov. Robert A. Taft II's Republican organization had corrupted the electoral machinery in Ohio?

What happened to the inspiring rhetoric about counting every vote? Where were all the lawyers, supposedly primed to fight the Republicans tooth and nail if there was even a hint of fraud? Who turned off the supposedly ferocious 527 committees that, rather than screaming for Kerry to fight, just evaporated?

And that timid concession speech! Kerry's limp clichés blasphemed the hallowed Revolutionary confines of Faneuil Hall, scene of so much fiery rhetoric against the undemocratic rule of kings. His excuse for quitting insulted the very people he said he had come to thank:

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But even if Bush prevails "legitimately" in Ohio (after a probable Green Party-requested recount is completed), I'm left with the sense that Kerry betrayed his supporters -- that he was every bit the elitist patrician that Red State America mistrusted so deeply. It's ironic and, I suppose, unfair that the combat veteran who got his hands bloody in Vietnam was portrayed as a less genuine human being than the draft-dodging prep-school smart-ass Bush. But after Kerry's concession performance, I'm not so sure that he didn't get what he deserved.

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An authentic tribune of popular opposition to Bush would have fought this election as if his life, and the future of the country, depended on it. Kerry tried to back into victory on the updrafts of hot air from his pollsters and consultants. He never really attacked Bush for his lies about Iraq, about the real cost of the war, or about Halliburton's corrupt contracts with the Pentagon. He never confronted Bush and Cheney over their rank hypocrisy in permitting Halliburton to do business in embargoed Iran, a charter member of Bush's "axis of evil." In short, Kerry never made Bush's dishonest foreign policy the constitutional issue that it should have been.

In politics, the only thing worse than a bully is someone who won't stand up to one.