Reply #23: I can't speak for the Clark supporters [View All]

[Eloriel]

but for many of us Dean supporters, it's NOT about having lost. That would be bad enough.

It was about what forces converged to bring about that loss. Our candidate and his campaign made some mistakes, but those alone would not have, COULD not have brought his downfall. The full weight of the entrenched corporate media, the DNC/DLC and their favorite candidates engaging in dirty tricks all with no time in a shortened primary season for Dean to recover is what we're bitter about. We KNEW the GOP engaged in dirty tricks, we have been surprised, shocked, appalled and outraged to find out that our own party is absolutely not one whit better.

Same for most of us re Gore in 2000 when we were all called Sore Losers by the rightwing. it wasn't that he lost (and actually he didn't lose), it was that the election was stolen.