Reply #29: "I'm not going to stand for it."

[earthside]

Well, that's nice.

But I'm sorry. If someone were attacking me in a way that involves my honor and honesty, I wouldn't just say I wasn't going to stand for it without using some passionate language.

This is about perception more than just about whether or not Kerry gets the words right. He needs to take the fight to the "enemy" ... that means really saying like it is ... Bush and Cheney were slackers during Vietnam. Rhetorically asking why Bush hasn't answered "whether he showed up for duty" doesn't make the attack ... Kerry needs to just say it --- "Bush behaved cowardly during Vietnam, he's behaving cowardly when he won't go to the 9/11 commission without Cheney, he behaved cowardly flying all around the copuntry on 9/11, etc." Come on, make the charge, go on the offense, make Bush defend himself.

I'm not trying to instill doubts about Kerry. I don't long for Dean. I just finished "Tour of Duty". Kerry has got the fight and spunk for this battle ... if the DLC, Lieberman, Daschle, "don't upset the establishment" crowds, don't turn Kerry into a nervous Nellie.

And that's why everybody needs to e-mail the Kerry campaign and tell them to, as Al Gore said AFTER the 2000 election, "Let it rip!"