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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (732)	1/5/2007 6:04:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 149317

Dead wrong. Kerry ran a tremendous campaign in many ways. He was called "finished" ten days before the Iowa Caucus. Polls showed him 30% behind Dean in New Hampshire. He had recently been through cancer surgery. He had lost his voice and was physically exhausted. His campaigns funds were tapped out and he was unable to get any money from his wife or rich friends because they'd already given the $2000 max. Also, Gore had just endorsed Dean and Gephardt, Edwards and Dean were all ahead of Kerry in Iowa. So what did this so-called "Boston Brahmin" do? (a term I strongly protest because Kerry was not born with any family money and has always worked hard for his country) He got up, mortgaged everything he owned to the hilt, got back on his horse and rode out to Iowa, where he made one of the most dramatic comebacks in US political history, stunning dean, the Clintons, Gephardt, talking heads on TV and everyone else. The voters liked what they saw when Kerry was in his fighting mode. And he will be again, unless DEms blow it and ignore Kerry, while promoting the first black or woman candidate, two types the GOP might love to run against. Once Kerry knew he was nominated, he raised 150 million dollars in six months, more than the Republicans, he picked a fine running mate, he won all three debates and he ran an ethical high-brow campaign talking about real issues. Bush ran the opposite. Al the issue ideas Kerry talked about in 2004 have been proven now to have been proven right. So he has "I told you so" as a major weapon to use next time. Kerry made two crucial errors however. And don't listen to McAuliffe because he's strictly working for Hillary now and she is scared to death of Gore and Kerry, so take him with a big grain of salt. Kerry underestimated how dirty Bush would fight, and he thought that the his 'Nam boat mates and Max Cleland could fend off the attacks he did expect, like the fact that he protested the war and said some colorful things about atrocities. But fifty million bucks was put behind the smearvets and the networks covered them. The smear campaign became Bush's entire campaign. Kerry did not expect that. Kerry could have and maybe should have gotten down in the mud with the smearvet bastards, but he was targeting Bush, not some sleazeball dirty tricksters. So he held his high ground. Over the next 3-4 months, Bushies pulled some of the dirtiest tricks in US politics and even more shockingly much of the MSM let them get away with it. Still, Kerry basically tied Bush. He lost by a small amount of votes in Ohio, since we now know many of Kerry's Ohio votes were stolen, and he got more votes than Gore did in 2000. One state it came down to, where the GOP concentrated 90% of their cheating and dirty tricks. Just like they did in Florida against Gore, whom they also cehated, and McCain in South Arolina, whom they smeared as well. Now you can blame Gore, McCain and Kerry for losing to Rove's dirty campaigns if you like, but Kerry and McCain in particular can never be smeared for their war hero records again. All that was lies and it's finished with. It was a one shot stinkbomb. It worked, but never again. In other words, have some respect. After all, Nixon, Reagan, McCain, Bush Sr., Edwards and Gore all lost presidnetial bids too. And no one has ever beaten a war-time president. Not even Nixon during Vietnam., He beat McGovern by a huge landslide in 1972 even though he'd obviously failed big-timne in 'Nam. Just the way our country is.