Where did I see a reference to that Sherlock Holmes clue–somewhere today on the web?
With all the noise made in Boston last month by the biggest names in the Democratic Party, you would think that some of them would come to Kerry’s defense. Edwards is the only one helping his partner out. And he’s doing a great job of whining.
There’s a reason we haven’t heard anything from the Clintons, Kennedy, Gore, et al. They just enjoy seeing him hanging in the breeze, I guess.
Hate is a powerful emotion. The word itself is used off-handedly so often that it sometimes loses its essence. “Intense dislike” is how the dictionary defines it, but it is really much more. Its power has subverted the political process in the Democratic Party, and that is a loss we all need to review with some clarity. I would not like to see it happen again.
The Democratic Primaries were little more than Bush Hatefests. There was virtually no vetting of individual candidates. This process was pushed hard and fast by the DNC leadership, and the desire was to get someone nominated as quickly as possible so that their entire effort, and budget, could be used against Bush. The emergence of Howard Dean posed a real problem. He was an outsider, not part of the Washington circle of Democratic elites. His ascendancy probably caused a great deal of discussion within the DNC as to how they should deal with it. Kerry came almost out of nowhere to take the lead, and never relenquished it.
Because this process happened the way it did, rank and file members of the Democratic Party were very much excluded from it. The entire primary run left them standing in the dust. Nobody got to know anything about any of the candidates, and they spent all their time glad-handing one another. Al Sharpton, who asked the only pertinent questions of the others, was carried along as comic relief more than anything else.
The danger of such a rushed primary is that the questions now being raised about John Kerry never had time to see the light. The Swift Boat Veterans are a diverse political group, and their emergence as a force to be reckoned with coincides with Republican political ads only due to timing. John O’Neill has had an on-going battle with Kerry for many years. Had there been time between Dean’s destruction as a candidate and Kerry’s capture of the nomination, these things would have come to light much earlier. O’Neill’s goal is to keep Kerry out of the White House. He could easily have rallied support from Democratic donors rather than Republican ones had the primary process lasted longer.
For all of this, the American people, and registered Democrats in particular, have lost the opportunity to participate in the Presidential Election Process. That may suit the DNC leadership just fine, or it may cause them to pull out their hair. I don’t know. But I do know that the DNC decided who the nominee would be, and we unwashed heathens had little to do with it. I am concerned the RNC might take the same approach in 2008.
A campaign driven by hatred has given the Democrats the nominee they have. Rational thought wasn’t allowed to intrude. All Kerry’s faults could have been exposed earlier, and we common folk given the chance to decide if we would want him as a nominee or not.
Our Betters decided it for us. The grassroots Democrats need to reclaim their Party, and they won’t do it with Terry McAuliffe at the helm. His focus, which is the real Prize they fear they’ll lose is this, and Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office.
Everyone knows it, but nobody will talk about it.
Is this what Kerry is complaining about?
The Democratic Party is partnering with MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, Campaign for America’s Future, and dozens of other groups representing millions of Americans to organize a massive public mobilization.
Funny. I thought that was illegal.
As Thomas says at American Thinker, save this one in your cache before the Dems remove it from their site.
I’m no expert on the law. Perhaps it only restricts a campaign from partnering.
New England Republican, a Homespun Blogger (we have some really good ones, folks) has the best sticker idea I’ve seen. I won’t post it, you need to visit the site.
MSNBC – Kerry calls on Bush to demand halt to attacks
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to
While the shrub’s goons question Kerry’s honesty with outright lies like “Nixon wasn’t even president in 1968”, the Kerry campaign has produced new photographic evidence which should finally put this whole silly argument to rest.
Liberal Larry has obtained one of the highly-classified photos from the highly-classified mission.
As a follow-up to my earlier post, I’d like to direct your attention to James Hudnall’s 8 Reasons Not To Vote for Kerry.
He nails it.
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