Reply #61: what I'm saying is this [View All]

[AtomicKitten]

The Republicans have a knack of positioning controversial votes before elections (DOMA, Homeland Security, IWR) to put the Democrats between a rock and a hard place. Many here have no trouble eviscerating certain politicians for some votes completely diregarding the implications and the conditions under which the vote was cast.

But this vote was about war.

And, yes, I'm sorry to say that I do believe Hillary, Kerry and Edwards at least yielded to the pressure of their political longevity as much as for any other honorable reason you can name. I believe it was definitely in the bullet points they examined. I believe had the vote not been before an election we may have seen a very different result. Bless all those that had the courage to say no.

And I most definitely believe this conundrum was precisely as the Republicans intended.