Reply #6: You hit the nail on the head

[WildEyedLiberal]

I actually had a detailed discussion about this with my mom tonight. I think John Kerry's campaign advisors and managers were quite possibly the most inept and bumbling in recent history, and they bear the second most blame for his "loss" (the most blame, of course, going to Rove and whoever engineered the fraud). Bob Shrum and Mary Beth Cahill told him to wait to respond to the Swift Boat lies; he wanted to come out fists swinging. Shrum insisted that voters couldn't be told about BCCI because they might confuse it with BBC the British TV station; such patronizing attitudes about the attention span of the electorate may have cost poor Kerry the election. No, I don't blame John, because he's so introspective and self-doubting by nature that he bends over backwards to take people's advice. I blame his terrible advisors, who made nearly every wrong decision they possibly could, and denied John the landslide victory that might've been his.

I actually wrote a little piece on Kerry on the day of the election, outlining why I thought he would be good for America and why I was proud to vote for him. I emailed it to my mom that day, and she printed it off and showed it to her coworkers, and they told her that they'd never known that Kerry had done all that with BCCI and Iran-Contra. After the election, my dad showed it to his coworkers and got the same response. My only regret now is not writing it earlier and getting the word out earlier - maybe it might've changed some minds. I live in a blue state, at least, so my guilt isn't overwhelming, but yet, I do believe my story underscores exactly what you said - that it seemed to be up to us to get the truth and facts about Kerry out in the open, since the media was not interested in anything but their own spin and Kerry's advisors were too busy making stupid decisions about everything.

Should I post that little essay I wrote about Kerry on Election Day? You Kerrycrats might enjoy it, although it makes me sad in retrospect. Anyways, I do salute all the hard work you've been doing, angrydem, to get the much needed word out about Kerry. Once you're finished, we need to figure out a way to get the info to the masses, and not just all of us who already love him. You're awesome! :hug: