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To: bentway who wrote (322210)	1/22/2007 1:35:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1577893

Kerry's campaign was about smart honest debate of ISSUES. Bush's was about smears, lies, fear-mongering and dirty tricks. The cheater won. The cheater also won in 2000. And if Howard Dean or Edwards had been the nominee they would have lost too. Dean might have lost 45 states. Edwards would have been cheated and smeared too. Gore actually blew it worse than Kerry. Gore was riding on eight years of success. But he found a way to lose. Some people blamed him for not really wanting to win deep-down. Who knows? It's not that it's hopeless, it's just that Rove-Bush went dirty all the way and manipulated the media enough to make it work, just enough. They also outright cheated. Using the Lee Atwater smear-a-thon mentality of politics, they cheated the nation and the democrats but put themselves in power. It's a national tragedy and a crime against democracy. Also a tragedy is that millions of voters in the middle can be swayed by smears and dirty tricks if a campaign is ruthless and dishonest enough to cross the line. Can it happen agfain in 2008? Sure. So let's not helkp the rightwing out by nominating a black raised as a Muslim or a not very popular woman. That's their wheel-house. They appeal to the worst in every fairly conservative white voter, and those voters are the ones who decide elections.