Reply #153: Yes of course

[sandnsea]

I have my own views of the SBVT, but I suspect it wouldn't have mattered what the campaign did. There were people ready to pounce on anything in order to justify some left-over lust with their own candidate. I don't care how much they did, half-hearted support with a secret desire to say "told ya' so", doesn't cut it. That DID HAPPEN, no hypotheticals about it. And it's still happening. Bush won by a smaller percentage than any 2nd term candidate in nearly 100 years. The biggest thing wrong with this campaign was the impression that Democrats didn't really want the guy, so why should anybody else. That came from the left and was played on by the right, so don't blame the campaign for it. If I could change one thing in this campaign, it wouldn't be the SBVT, it would be the Democrats who repeated right wing bullshit to the point casual voters didn't know what to think anymore. I can deal with the right, any of us can. But if we give their garbage credibility by discussing it, debating it, answering it, or show any fracturing because of it; we'll lose. You can think it wouldn't have happened to Clark if you want, but you're just wrong. Nobody, if they're honest with themselves, would have thought they'd attack Kerry's actual war service. They did, just like they did McCain and Cleland. You think Clark is so special he'd have avoided it? Nope. But the slander can't work without help from Democrats, that's what you still don't get. They'd have been there, they always are. Just like you're still here slamming Kerry now.