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larrygj
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 Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:28 am Post subject: 'Defeat Kerry' email to Dean, Nader supporters |
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John Kerry is unfit for command, and all that is fair in the war called politics to defeat him must be employed. We must never, ever be complacent or think because Bush is now ahead that it will always be so.
Using language likely to resonate with those on the left, I have sent to left-leaning friends of mine (Dean and Nader supporters) the following email, to underscore how Kerry does not deserve their vote. Feel free to cut and paste as much of this as you want to send to those who might vote for Kerry, especially those who previously supported Howard Dean or who support Ralph Nader or Hillary Clinton now:
| Quote: | This election is between Bush and Kerry. I have little love for either candidate, but to me Bush is clearly the lesser of two evils (when will we ever be able to vote FOR somebody?), and he will have my vote.
After many opportunistic changes of view, Kerry is belatedly now taking the Howard Dean tack all the way: Iraq is "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time." Sound familiar? Kerry today virtually repudiated his vote authorizing Bush to use force against Saddam, even though a month ago he said he would have voted the same way, knowing what he knows today.
Kerry's latest antiwar statements were Howard Dean's sentiments long ago and always, and the sentiments of 90% of the delegates attending the Democratic National Convention (a news organization actually polled them all), a time when Kerry held a view apparently in support of the war. Just a couple of examples of Kerry's hawkish mode when it suited him, expressed often during the primaries and until just recently:
"I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him." (ABC News, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, Columbia, SC, 5/3/03)
September 2003: Kerry said voting against the $87 billion supplemental would be "irresponsible" -- Doyle McManus (LA Times): "If that amendment does not pass [the one he voted for before he voted against the bill as a whole], will you then vote against the $87 billion?" Kerry: "I don't think any United States senator is going to abandon our troops and recklessly leave Iraq to – to whatever follows as a result of simply cutting and running. That's irresponsible." (CBS's "Face the Nation," 9/14/03)
I'm not making this stuff up. There's much, much more in a video that is almost too painful to watch at www.kerryoniraq.com, documenting all the flip-flops up to the time of the film's release. There have been about a half a dozen more since.
So the "peace now" Democrats nominated a "war hero reporting for duty" who voted for the Iraq war. His nomination was the direct result of a handful of unelected Democratic caucus activists in Iowa who decided in the end not to vote their hearts for Howard Dean but their hunches that Kerry was more "electible." At the convention, a majority of Democrats readily -- you could say, cynically -- went along with it, figuring a ham sandwich could beat Bush. So now the Democrats have this weak, flip-flopping opportunistic John Kerry desperately taking, at last, the Howard Dean line to see if that will reverse his fortunes in the polls.
Can anybody really believe Kerry will stay in this latest stance for long? How long? Not nominating Dean (though I would have rejected him myself) is the most dishonest and dishonorable thing the Democrats did, equal to all the outrageous, extreme efforts the Democratic Party has taken to deny Ralph Nader -- arguably the only honest candidate in this election -- to be placed on the ballot in many states, preventing the will of many people from being given expression. Ironically, it took the Florida Supreme Court to restore Nader to the ballot after Democrats pulled every dirty trick possible to deny him his spot. Since Nader has been successfully denied the ballot in a number of states thanks to the Democrats, guess where he will concentrate his efforts and get his revenge? As one soweth...
I thought democracy -- and Democrats -- were all about fighting for the little person, protecting his or her rights to freedom of speech and choices, giving everybody a chance to speak their mind and be heard, even if his or her views were unpopular. The Democrats led the way with the Voting Rights Act of 1964, making sure disenfranchised blacks could vote. They fought hard in the Gore loss in Florida to try to make sure every vote counted (well, except the absentee votes from the armed forces). But now, the "organization" Democrats are so craven for power at any price that they are willing to stifle progressives like Nader with views more hostile to Republicans than Democrats.
The Hindis say that through death comes renewal. This eerily similar replay of the 1988 Dukakis-Bush election signifies to me that the current Democratic Party needs to die ASAP in order to be reborn. The Republicans, whether you like them or hate them, are at least transparent and consistent. Maybe Hillary Clinton, given a shot at the Dems' renewal in '08 if Kerry is defeated this year, maybe she can lead that renascence, or something like one. Who knows? But Kerry will have to be defeated first. |
Semper fi, and God bless the Swifties!
Larry |
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LewWaters
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Location: Washington State
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:54 am Post subject: |
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While maybe off your topic, whatever happened to our freedom to run for office or vote for who we wish? Isn't the Kerry Kampf currently filing lawsuits to block Nader off the ballot in state after state?
I wonder why they weren't as swift on filing lawsuits blocking Ross Perot from running twice?
I feel if you really want to have an impact on undecideds and Nader supporters, include how it's the Kerry Campaign, using the Democrats, denying Nader his right to run for public office.
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