Reply #113: THAT was the moment I lost all hope

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I still contributed, still put up signs, still canvassed, but at the point I really lost all hope for the Kerry/Edwards campaign.

The whole convention was a wicked farce. I know of several (non-Kerry) delegates who were browbeaten into voting for Kerry on the first ballot because they were given certain promises by party bigwigs (including one ex-Vice President). I know one delegate who had his homemade pro-peace signs taken away by the "floor minders".

I could have tolerated some of that, but then the whole "Reporting for Duty" wargasm that was Kerry's acceptance speech really was the end for me. I still voted for him, but I lost all heart for campaigning after that.

You don't win by promising to manage the other's guys disasters better, you win by promising an ALTERNATIVE.