Why high hopes are dangerous when considering a Kerry administration [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

You don't go from crud to glory in one election. You sure as hell don't recover from the last four years quickly. I don't care if Jesus H. Christ is the nominee, and the Buddha is his running mate.

This election, and the next four years, are triage. It is delusional to expect 'champions' who can win national elections in this grand 21st century. The game is rigged from hoot to holler, and has been for years. There's an old saying about radio that applies here: Politics is a long, shallow trench where the whores run free and good men die like dogs. I am *not* saying Kerry is a whore, but I *am* saying that true champions have trouble running the gauntlet as it is currently compromised.

Champions run for House and Senate seats in 2006...I'll get to that in a sec.

Do you think *any* progressive legislation is getting passed during Kerry's first two years? We ain't taking back the Congress in November, so Kerry will have Hastert, Frist and DeLay to work with. The Happy Fun Group, I like to call them. If God On High pointed Her Mighty Finger at these three assjacks and ordered them to pass universal health care and an omnibus education reform package, they'd have Her denounced as a French liberal elitist baby-killing swine who lied about Her service in the Great Angelic War.

You want champions? Do the entire country a great service and find one, and have him or her run for a House or Senate seat in 2006. Get John Kerry a congress, and you'll get him a second term. Get him a second term and a congress, and watch what happens. I, for one, can't wait.

But I'm gonna, because 2004 is about win first. High ideals and hopes for Kerry's first 100 days will certainly be met with deep disappointment. We win nothing with a Kerry victory but the blessed opportunity to start digging out from the storm we've been in for a thousand days.

2006.

On edit: Cheswick rightly states below that holding Kerry's feet to the fire from day one is the responsibility of all of us, regardless of congressional circumstances.