Reply #17: What's sad is that if they had taken the time to look [View All]

[karynnj]

they would have seen the man we see - who likely is closer to their real views than their favorites. But the same people who could for Clark ignore at least 24 years of voting for Republicans and not even question what he knew, thought, and did about overt and covert activities that at his levels he likely knew about in places such as Central America and Vietnam. I know that as active millitary, he couldn't speak up. But Kerry had to risk his future in speaking up about both these actions - and HE did. These are the true comparisons: (a livetime basically liberal public Democrat, a 24 yr Republican who is now a liberal and has learned most of teh buzz words) and (a man who fought to get out terrible truths in VN and CA, a man who put his career over speaking out)

With Dean, it wasn't until I read your (and other) posts that I realized how often he just lied about his public record in VT. Reading some of the Iowa stuff now - he just angers me and I can see why Gepheart, who always had seemed basically nice, got into such a fight with him. I think the Republicans would have taken him apart had he been the candidate. I doubt he could have come close to running a campaign like Kerry's

They also seem to have forgotten that they (or their earlier counterparts) abandonned Al Gore - because they didn't like him. If he became the candidate would he even keep them - or would they be mad at Tipper for record labels (not that unreasonable) or because he is boring or changes his demeanor.