Reply #5: A Kerry deal breaker

[WilliamPitt]

First of all, I will vote for whomever wins the nomination. Period.

If Kerry called for the invasion of Syria, he's fudge. If he backs off on reproductive rights, he's fudge. If he didn't give me the sense he could get the economy back online, he'd be fudge. There's a long list.

I am over the Iraq vote; he got lied to by the Director of the CIA. If I were sitting in his chair when he was told by the Director of the CIA that Iraq was building a nuclear bomb, I probably would have voted for war.

We're lucky. We don't have to make those kinds of decisions. Do I believe the Director of the CIA when he looks me in the eye and tells me some really scary shit? Or do I say he is a liar and risk being wrong to the tune of hundreds of thousands killed?

As for the rest of it, I have a dirty secret. I get all emotional over issues and writing and advocacy and what I believe in. I go onto a voting booth, or contemplate an election, I go cold as ice. All business. Win or go home.

I don't give a damn that he's part of the system. The part he has played in the System has done damned good things for myb state of Massachusetts over the years, for Vietnam Veterans, for the environment, for a hundred other things I care deeply about. If that makes me a sellout, then so be it.