Reply #19: Kerry definitely would have won in 2000 [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

Ousting an incumbent is entirely different than running with 8 years of great economy at your back in an open race.

I can't imagine running for president. Nearly two full years and literally thousands of appearances and decisions. Any one of them can be isolated by your opponent and make you look like a fool or worse in a commercial. I'm sure Kerry didn't think twice about that "voted for the $87 billion, before I voted against it" line in West Virginia, until it was on every TV screen for months.

I have trouble not being distracted or annoyed while writing a DU post. How the hell is someone supposed to be on go all day, every day? Flying across the country and meeting people who will remember that moment and what you were like, and judge you primarily by that 3 seconds. Not for me, pal. I give Kerry my utmost salute. He dominated the debates and gave us everything he had.