When It Comes To An Actual Presidency, Kerry Is Always The Better Man

[DrFunkenstein]

How many Dean policy threads can you find? I went through the first six sections and it is almost entirely made up of process stories - how great the grassroots is, how much money, what the polls are. Is there any lessons we can draw from this?

Here's my take - I think that Dean's supporters would rather focus on the bells and whistles rather than admit that Dean is running on a lackluster platform. Almost everything talked about will have ZERO effect on an actual Presidency.

It's not like we are going to have 4 years of grassroots campaigning. It's not like we're going to have 4 years of not voting for the IWR. It's not like we're going to have 4 years of anti-Bush anger. It's not like we're going to have 4 years of the fundraising bat.

Sometimes I think Dean supporters are really Trippi supporters. The only caveat is most supporters like that Dean is pissed off all the time.

I support Kerry for EXACTLY what he is going to do in the Oval Office. Not his personality or whether I'd have a beer with him, but his actual AGENDA. The man has the mind of an international chessmaster and a real record and realistic, workable proposals that back up his calls for overhauling our entire energy policy top to bottom, our health care system, and fighting terrorism and proliferation. He has an incredible record of taking on corporate welfare in the government and has a detailed plan for popping these fat cats off the government teat.

Yes, I disagreed with his IWR, but I am not going to put up an inferior candidate for something that will not directly affect his 4 years (especially since his true position was indistinguishable from Dean's eventual one). I have much more, MUCH MORE reservations about the backroom deals Dean made with Sharon and AIPAC than with the IWR. Those promises - never renounced - WILL affect a Dean Presidency.

If you put actual proposals, not just rhetoric, made by Dean and Kerry, you will find that EVERY TIME Kerry will have the more detailed and far-sighted approach. Which is why every time policy is brought up, Dean supporters don't brag about Dean's proposals, they run back to the IWR.

Presidency for Presidency - not even talking about electability - Kerry comes out ahead on every issue. He is not only a true progressive, he is the only candidate capable of walking in the shoes of some of our greatest Presidents.

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