Kerry is okay. [View All]

[smartvoter]

Kerry fumbled the Swifties and Ohio. I was unhappy about both of these events, and wrote some heated posts about them at the time (here and elsewhere). But, does this erase a lifetime of service? Or everything he's doing now?

In the Senate, we have what, Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, and a handful of others consistently taking on the tyrannical majority?

Kerry is offering solutions for ending Iraq correctly. He is contradicting persistent misreporting that Dems have no solutions, only complaints, by spelling out plans in editorials and doing interviews opposite of Bush's bogus speech. He called Rove on his B.S. He is pushing the Kid's First Act. Although his letter the other day didn't focus on machine fraud, S 450, which he introduced with Boxer, Clinton and Lautenberg, addresses the issue and the write up at his site leads with the issue (http://www.johnkerry.com/features/count/). He is opposing Bolton. He opposed Rice. He opposed the nuclear option. And the list goes on and on.

Many of us like to point out that that Gore put up a better post- election day fight than Kerry, and it is true. But Gore faded out after Bush was selected. Kerry is getting this part of the fight right. He's out there reminding a public increasingly disenchanted with Bush & Co. that we had it right. He is our "I told you so," which we badly need to carry us through these next, critical election cycles.

Say what you want, but our side could do a hell of a lot worse than John Kerry.