Reply #5: "Kerry says, he won't support war but who knows" [View All]

[charlie]

That's one of my biggest worries about Kerry. The oldest trick in the book is to accuse Democrats of being "soft on" something -- crime, Communism, drug use, whatever -- and watch them flail and flounder. LBJ is probably the toughest, most hard-bitten sumbitch the Democrats ever got into office, and even he got suckered into a military morass that he knew was neither right or wise. It sparked a low-grade civil war, wrecked the economy, and scarred the American psyche with a cynical distrust of our institutions that we've never recovered from. I don't know if Kerry has the sand to resist the pressures he'll be under to accede to the new imperialism and ratchet up domestic restrictions in the name of "security."