Reply #13: call me ga-ga 2 [View All]

[Carolina]

I know exactly how you feel; I haven't felt this way, this excited either since RFK in 1968 and Clinton in 1992. Had he not been killed, Bobby would have won, and today our nation would be a better/different place, in part, because we would never have had Nixon and all those who cut their vicious, power-mad political teeth under him. Take exhibit A (please) -- Karl Rove who started his dirty tricks under none other than Tricky Dick (see pages 43-56 of Mark Crispin Miller's The Bush Dyslexicon for more on Nixon's dastardly legacy and those legatees who now occupy the West Wing). Anyway, the General has the intelligence, the gravitas, the military experience, the sensibility, the personality and more to defeat the Bush League. The Bushies already fear him and they will be hurling their slings and arrows mightily. But he's been to war and he's been hit, literally wounded. So I have no doubt he can take their hits and remain standing like Clinton. I was a Kerry/Edwards person; I thought they would be an ideal ticket: north/south, foreign policy/domestic issues, experienced insider/innovative newcomer, etc. But you're absolutely right. Kerry is not connecting and it is as though he's already been Gored! Not to mention both Kerry and Edwards lost my backing because of their Iraq Occupation support (despite their weak explanations then and weaker justifications now). I like what Dean and Kucinich have to say. In fact, I like the input from all our candidates except Lieberman and Gephardt (who couldn't even retain his leadership among House Democrats so what does that tell you about his chances in November 2004?). I will NEVER FORGET the image of those two sucking up to Bush in the Rose Garden over the Iraq resolution in October 2002 and no matter what they say now, I cannot forgive them for aiding and abetting the warmonger-in-chief.

Of the pack, Clark is the only one I feel exuberant about and the only one who can emerge a winner in the general election. So,let's take back the West Wing with Wes! Yes!