Reply #6: All you say may be true... [View All]

[punpirate]

... but Kerry asked his party and people to support him in a run for the presidency. They nominated him, and expected him to do his very best on their behalf. He took their campaign money to enable him to get exposure.

Tens of thousands of people showed up before and during the polls to watch the election for him--and they were reporting a veritable plethora of irregularities.

Kerry's quick capitulation has probably driven people from the party, people who'd probably long ago sensed that the Democrats were being far too easy on the Republicans in a spirit of bipartisanship which simply wasn't shared by the right wing, but stayed with the party rather than bolting to the Greens.

In those terms, Kerry, if he really wanted to be the President, needed to show to his party, and the country, that he was really willing to fight for it.

The simple fact is that all the damage Kerry might be able to do in the Senate to Bush, he could have done without ever leaving it to run for President. And, after four years in the Senate with Bush as an illegitimate president, whose Florida machine robbed a previous Democratic candidate of the presidency, he hasn't done one thing to genuinely damage Bush while in the Senate. I don't think he's going to go out of his way to do so in the next four years, either.

I'm not trying to be overly rancorous, but I am saying that Kerry's decision was political. Perhaps he calculated that it would buy some respect for Democrats in the next four years. If he thought that, I don't know what the hell he's smokin'.