Reply #24: I dont give them a pass exactly

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I said I am disappointed. But I don't think they did it differently than ANY other candidate would have.
The problem is the system, not so much the candidates. It was neither Gore nor Kerry's job to make themselves the #1 scapegoat on election reform. You can't ask people to put their heads on a chopping block for a cause that was already lost. They would have gotten tepid support at best just after the elections. Even around DU many people did not accept that election theft had occurred. I knew it had, because I have seen elections up close. But I also knew that Kerry especially would have been tarred and feathered by his own team. These days maybe it would have played out differently because atttitudes are changing as the Repugs agenda has been exposed. More people can now imagine that election theft is real. It's up to us to stay on this, but it's not realistic to blame it on "bad candidates" who didn't sacrifice themselves to a losing cause.