Reply #26: And why didn't he stick around to vote on the Medicare issue?

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He spoke out against it but didn't stay to finish the job. Okay, maybe his vote wouldn't have made much difference, but it would have proven that he stayed with it and completed the pass. To bail like that - SHEESH!!!!

Plus, he voted for the war and Patriot Act, allowing himself to be swept along, and buying into the rhetoric when he should have known better. AND, what still sticks like a thorn in MY particular side, he told people to "get over it" about Selection 2000, which, as long as I believe in living in a democracy, I can NEVER EVER EVER EVER DO! If we get over that and move on away from it, we are destined to have it happen to us again and again.

As Mad-Eye Moody would say in the "Harry Potter" saga, "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!" Especially against THESE dark-siders we're up against.

Kerry's a HUGE disappointment. I once had my hopes. But when I heard Dean saying the things I wanted to hear also from a THEN-better-positioned candidate, and I NEVER heard those same things from Kerry, I turned into a Deanie.

Seems to me we need someone as our standard-bearer who's not into capitulating and making nice-nice with the enemy, OR trying to sound/look/seem like them or like a kinder, gentler version of them. Kerry hasn't shown any willingness OR ability to do that. And now he's losing momentum, and I believe that's the reason. Any outrage he seems to be displaying about what's going on is several days late and many dollars short. It's no good, NOW. He should have been on it, boldly, courageously, loudly, and WAY out in front, a year ago. Instead, he sided with THEM, not US.

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That said, if he DOES, somehow, I DON'T know how, become our nominee, of course I will support him (ANYBODY but bush), but I won't be happy about it.