Congratulations to the Democratic Party for proving once and for all

truebrit71

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Wed Feb-11-04 12:36 AM
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Congratulations to the Democratic Party for proving once and for all

that you really are just a bunch of timid little pink-tutu wearing rubber stampers for bush and his illegal administration. That rather than take a chance, highlight the differences, offer a valid, vibrant, progressive new vision for this great country with a strong, intelligent, pro-active leader like Wes Clark or Howard Dean, you instead duck and cover as the front-runner Howard Dean gets lambasted in the right-wing press for daring to be different. You effectively marginalize your only hope at the Independent and moderate republican vote by shying away from Wes Clark as he is smeared and belittled gleefully by the chickenhawks and mouthpieces in the media. Instead of fully supporting and encouraging ALL candidates to campaign vigorously on the issues and highlight how almost ANY of them would be better than the usurper in the White House, you instead encourage candidates to DROP OUT of the race. You allow John Edwards to be categorized as a nobody John Grisham-type southern-lawyer-wannabe with no message outside of the South. You don't even let Dennis Kucinich get more than a smattering of the spotlight for fear that the whole party be seen as "too-liberal" or "too far to the left". And so what do we have left?

John Kerry.

A career politician.
A beltway insider.
A man who is no stranger to copious amounts of special interest money.
A man who voted FOR the Patriot Act, a man that voted FOR the Iraq war.
A man that will have to play defense 95% of the time accounting for every vote from the last 19 years that is deemed "too liberal" while Smirky McFlightsuit kisses babies and prances around in front of hand-picked crowds waving like a well-trained circus animal, convincing the unwashed masses that "sure I may be dumb but I'm better than the alternative".

Congratulations. Way to go. NOT!!!

I hope I'm wrong. I hope Kerry wipes the floor with * in November, I hope that some of the mountain of shit that is being hurled around lands back in the faces of Rove and his manipulators and that America wakes up from the effects of the "w" date-rape drug it was given three years ago and kicks that evil bastard back to his "ranch" in Texas..but I am also a realist...In a tight game you NEVER punt and hope to take it into overtime, you go for the WIN. You go for the throat.

But you didn't do that did you? Nope. You punted. And guess what? We ALL lose...

Congratulations DLC/DNC you just handed the dumbest excuse for a president his first legitimate victory in a general election.

I haven't felt this ill since 2000. I knew in my heart how bad bush was going to be for this country. I knew he would find an excuse, ANY excuse to go to war in Iraq. I knew he would screw the working class. I knew he would give the corporations everything they'd paid for. I knew that his "compassionate conservatism" was EXACTLY the oxymoronic bullshit that it sounded like. I knew that he would pursue a radical right-wing religious fundamentalist agenda.

I was right. Spot on. 100% accurate.

Now, if an IDIOT like me can see all that...

WHY CAN'T YOU??????