Every so often, it's nice to review. HuffPo piece from April on Kerry

[TayTay]

Remember this post from James Boyce at HuffPo? Tell me, five months after it was written, if Mr. Boyce didn't exactly nail it in his words. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/2008-only-a-loser-can-wi_b_19839.html

4. The Republican Medusa Will Do Anything To Win.

Destroy your service record? Check. Jam the phones? Bingo. Fight a recount? No question about it. You'd think that everyone who considers running as a Democrat would understand that the Republicans play to f'ing win, and that's all there is to it.

But Democrats who haven't faced the evil, don't. I had the chance to spend a few private moments with one of our top 2006 Senate candidates, someone who is going to get hammered post Labor Day, he was, and remains oblivious to the venom he is about to face. When asked how he was doing, he replied with a laundry list of consultants and strategists and pollsters.

I sat down with one of the other top candidates for 2008 at a private dinner recently. He's a good man, and intelligent. He doesn't know what he is getting into - he can't. He will not be able to win the war ahead because he doesn't understand the terms of engagement.

One of his advisors told me about sitting next to and chatting with one of the strategists who organized the Swift Boat campaign, I was shocked. You don't sit next to these people and break bread. You castrate them and force feed them their privates and don't think twice about it.

Al Gore and John Kerry have seen the worst of what the Republicans will do. Would you prefer a candidate who knows that? Or one who has to learn for him or herself - at our expense?

Damn Boyce nailed it. Absolutely nailed it. No one is hitting back harder than Kerry and no one else has forced their agenda onto the national stage more than Kerry. Geez, this seems so prescient now. Ah, Senatah darlin' you're doing a good job.

[beachmom]

1. I can't think of any Dem more out front than John Kerry right now

I just hope that he can spread the wisdom among the various candidates. It didn't really hit me how ahead JK is of the rest of the Dems until I saw Harry Reid on the News Hour -- watching Harry talking to Jim Lehrer was like going down a memory lane to the year 2002 -- gee, if it didn't work back then, what makes you think it'll work now!? Kerry is looking stronger and stronger, while formally powerful figures like Reid don't seem so powerful anymore, when they can't speak the truth like JK can.

And, I can say this now -- to heck with Reid and his "let's relegate the embarrassing Kerry/Feingold amendment to the night shift" move, seeing now that more Americans support that proposal than any other. You were wrong then, and you're once again wrong pulling punches with Republicans who wouldn't grant you the same courtesy.

[karynnj]

2. That really is true - and the people on other parts of this board

still haven't assimilated the fact fully. They have always flocked to whomever seemed to be fighting and attacking the hardest. They also claim Gore fought back in 2000 - all based on the post election time. Someone posted on the Ann Richards' thread that Larry King replayed her last interview where ahe was praising how Kerry was fighting Bush, unlike Gore. (both actually fought - in both case's it demonstrates revisionism and avoids seeing what really happened.)

What's amazing is that they demand that Kerry put himself on record immediately on each issue as it comes up - without even allowing for time to get all the facts as the minimum he needs to do to avoid condemnation. I don't hear them holding anyone - not Bill Clinton, Gore, Clark, Feingold, Edwards etc - to that standard.

[politicasista]

3. Interesting, isn't it?

It's because they want him to go away.


They think that with him out of the picture everything will be a ok with someone else at the helm. Those you metioned will be magically smear-free and stand up to the Rove lies and waltz into the WH.:sarcasm:



The double standard thing really sucks though.

[karynnj]

4. If he went away - they would smear him for going away

and will want someone to say all that he has been saying - because the others, by and large, aren't.

[politicasista]

5. Exactly n/t