I cannot believe the number of people on DU demanding that Kerry drop out. [View All]

[boxster]

This is ludicrous. Some sleezeball in a fedora breaks a 'story' that is little but election-year political garbage, and DUers stampede to the story like hyenas to a dead wildebeest and declare that Kerry is unquestionably worse than Bush and should drop out immediately.

Sour grapes, anyone?

Hmm, seems to me that there is exactly zero evidence of anything. The intern's parents said there was no affair, Kerry has categorically denied it, there is no independent confirmation of anything, yet many, MANY DUers are ready to throw him to the wolves. All under the guise of "what's good for the party", of course.

If we're going to bail on our candidates at the slightest whiff of controversy, we might as well skip the election, because NONE of our candidates are going to hold up to the standard of perfection, and NONE of our candidates are going to be immune from RW attacks.

If we're going to latch on to every RW smear of our candidates, then - pardon the cliché - they've already won.