John Kerry Had Every Right to Concede in Dignity.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

and i love him more for it.

[Hokie]

1. You are absolutely right

he did not deserve to have the sleezeballs at FauxNews and the ditto-heads drag his name through the mud in a futile effort in Ohio. Kerry ran a classy campaign against the most classless campaign in many years run by Bush - Cheney.

[Ivote]

3. Here Here

Three cheers for KERRY

[Window]

21. Amen

I'll drink to that. Hell, at this point, I'll drink to anything.

[KittyWampus]

33. I Am Starting To Laugh Again! And 3 Cheers For Kerry

[jpgray]

2. I still haven't seen a viable alternative offered

3,000,000 behind in the PV, and he would have needed to gain 139,000 or so on Bush in OH to win it, when at most there were 250,000 provisional ballots to be counted.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. neither have i.

and the man is not stupid or meek. he went against the president in this climate and he deserves our respect,

[arcane1]

10. indeed

not just anyone would be willing to stand up to that machine

:toast: to JK for being man, and human, enough to do it

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. john could have run at any time

but he chose the most risky time...and for that i think anyone who calls him meek is a moron.

:loveya:

[arcane1]

13. he chose the worst, and the most important time

and I dare anyone to say there was someone better for the job, now, in 2004, to go after these fools

:loveya:

[trof]

4. Got no problem with that. eom

[Old and In the Way]

5. Me, too!

Not his fault that 50+ MM (I think) decided to support Bush. It was a simple choice, really, and way too many rewarded incompetence. They deserve to get what they've got. Sadly, we'll be taken along for the ride against our better judgement.

[leftofthedial]

6. he had every right to claim that Mars is made out of peanut butter

and green monkeys fly out his ass when he eats lima beans.

Still wouldn't change the fact that he's a loser and a quitter.

He also punctuated the "flip-flop" attacks on him by the repukes.

In the morning he vows to fight until every last vote is counted. Then he meekly quits and pukes up a conciliatory, mewling concession before all the votes are counted.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. maybe he has more access to mathematicans and experts

than you do

[leftofthedial]

18. maybe

but would the little bushturd be rolling over on his back groveling to Kerry if the tables were turned?

Hell no. Half the repukes in the country would be camped out in Columbus rioting for the TV cameras right now.

This is not about mathematics and expertise. It is about power.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. if we follow everything they do

what makes us different?

[leftofthedial]

23. the use to which we put the power we win

would define us

[Eric J in MN]

25. Democrats support voter rights and Republicans oppose voter

rights, that's the difference.

[leftofthedial]

31. lioness, I'm not flaming you

I'm a fan of yours. I'm angry and disappointed.

this was an even weaker reaction than the Dems gave in 2000.

We're in an alley fight and we keep losing because we are too pure to fight on the repuke's terms.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. i just think that kerry took a huge risk for us

we should respect the amount of courage it takes to run against teh bush mafia. i am proud of him. i really am.

[arcane1]

37. what, exactly, should Kerry have done?

:shrug:

[leftofthedial]

38. kept fighting

parade every Dem surrogate he could find to spin talking points about the repuke theft of our democracy

sued every neocon motherfucker from the dogcatcher in Broward County to the little bushturd himself and fought every lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court.

Kept screaming "Republican theft of our democracy!" until Scalia told him personally to shut up.

for starters

[Pepperbelly]

9. I disagree vehemently although ...

you did get a hearty chuckled out of me with the "green monkeys fly out his ass when he eats lima beans" line.

:D

[Qutzupalotl]

12. It lets them count the votes in peace.

Wonder who all the challenged voters went for?

[wurzel]

14. He had every right to fight too.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. and make us go through 2000 again with half the reason?

[wurzel]

26. There will be no investigation of the performance of those voting machines

It has set the precedent of accepting the results of these machines without challenge. We may never win another election.

[Eric J in MN]

27. I'd rather go through 2000 again then have the candidate

give up the day after the election.

[americanwomanone]

16. John Kerry is a Class Act

[freetobegay]

17. The simply fact is we chose him.

He is the one in the hot seat for us. I believe he made the choice that he thought best for him & us. I will not rag on Senator Kerry or let anyone around me do so.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. i completely agree

[Eric J in MN]

22. I don't.

Kerry shouldn't have conceded until after every vote was counted.

There is nothing undignified about supporting voting rights.

[LibDemAlways]

30. And given how goddamned suspicious

it is that the exit polls indicated a different outcome in Florida and Ohio, he should have fought like hell to figure out why and unmask the fraud that allowed this theft. Two elections in a row and Kerry concedes without a fight? Think chimp would have conceded given the same circumstances? Think again.

[AnnInLa]

24. I agree.....he has my utimate respect

He fought for this country in Vietnam, when he didn't have to.

He testified against the immoral Vietnam War, when he didn't have to.

He fought against the immoral Nixon admin, when he didn't have to.

He stood up for Liberal ideals in the Senate, when he didn't have to.

He ran against the most corrupt, lying, sleazy president, when he didn't have to.

He is not a quitter, he is a realist...he was not going to embarrass the party and us by dragging out an inevitable loss.

[Eric J in MN]

29. It isn't embarassing to support voting rights (nt)

nt

[Arkana]

28. Hear, hear

Richard Nixon (shock!) did the same thing in '60: he conceded because he thought the country would be more polarized if he challenged the result in IL. Kerry did what was needed--because he just did not have the votes.

[Ilsa]

32. {Applauding} He was wonderful in his speech.

I wish I could have been there. I can only imagine how difficult today was for and JE and thier families.

[Skip Intro]

34. I have nothing but good feeling toward Kerry

and this wasn't always the case.

This nation just passed up an opportunity of real leadership and vision for a goddamn twisted illusion of some pseudo-Christian fairytale. That's not Kerry's fault.

He ran a great campaign.

I just wish I could get one meaningful hug from the guy, in that yellow coat. I really want that.

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