Why do some people state as fact what they only wish were true?

None of us knows for sure what was going on in Kerry's head as far as his "short list" but there is every indication Clark was in the running. And it's pretty obvious that Kerry didn't think Clark's "performance" was "horrible" or else he wouldn't have put him up on the stump so many times to such large audiences.
As for whom Democrats preferred... we really didn't need to win over any Democrats, did we? Wish I had a nickle for every indie and Repub who asked me, why on earth did Kerry pick a light-weight like Edwards?
All that said, I'm not sure it really mattered in the long run. With election fraud, and failing to slam down the swiftboaters, or to answer all the other lies, not to mention how little the VP usually means to the ticket... altho winning one more state might have done the trick... well, it's just hard to say, and probably pretty pointless to argue about.