Kerry Betrays Kerry

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Lt. John Kerry Testifying Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- April 22, 1971

Where is that man today?

A scant few hours after that, Kerry left tens of thousands of volunteers and millions of voters hanging. With Bush apparently leading by some 130,000 votes in Ohio, but with a quarter-million votes still uncounted here, Kerry abruptly conceded. He was then heard from primarily through attorneys from Republican law firms attacking grassroots election protection activists who dared question the Ohio outcome.

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But those committed to democracy and horrified by the on-going carnage of the Bush catastrophe still have no credible explanation as to why Kerry abandoned ship so abruptly. He had raised many millions specifically dedicated to "counting every vote," which clearly never happened in Ohio. More than a year after the election, more than 100,000 votes are STILL uncounted in the Buckeye state.

Kerry thinks he's keeping his powder dry for another run in '08. He can forget it. The progressive base of the Democratic party cannot abide mealy-mouthedness or fence-straddling, two of John Kerry's specialities, and, for that matter, of Hillary's and Joe Biden's. Having said this, you can expect them all to admit having made The Mistake, a la John Edwards, in voting for the war in Iraq. But it says here they're the type to do this only because the poll numbers sway heavily in that direction.

Regardless, most people look back on their misspent youth. John Kerry's youth, in some string-theoried alternative universe, would only cringe were he able to see himself and of what he's become.