Reply #28: I understand your anxiety for him to shine, but

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I also think you're missing a big point here. You have to let Kerry be Kerry.

It appears Kerry inadvertently poked a hornet's nest with a big stick last week, and that's fine. It's good he got to see how passionately people are feeling about the DSM. Most people really do seem to have a hard time getting what Kerry's about, but that doesn't mean we have to fall into that trap. I doubt he's ever gone off half cocked in his entire adult life when the stakes are this high. It's not an accident that he's a prosecutor. He won't say anything till he's sure of his facts. And even then he may, as others have suggested here, prefer to work on this behind the scenes.

If that means he doesn't get all the credit, I think he's fine with that. If I know anything about him it's that he's not doing it for the applause. He will do what he needs to do to have the greatest possible chance at success. Think of the stakes. We're talking about the worst president in history, a proven liar, who is connected beyond anything we even can imagine.

This is all of a piece with the Bolton nomination, with election fraud, with the filibuster. If it means he has to disappoint the lefty freepers in order to - dare I say it? - bring down these thugs, then he'll do it that way.

But we're the ones he needs to stand up for him and see straight through to what he's doing. You either have faith in him or you don't. All the whiners out there, for all their endless protestations about how hard they worked for his election, have no faith. I don't understand every move he makes, but I sure as hell know he understands what's going on better than I do. It would be ridiculously presumptuous of me to be telling him what steps to take.

Let Kerry be Kerry. He's not the finger-in-the-wind guy so many here accuse him of being. But he is thoughtful and strategic. And I seriously believe he's our best hope. He knows the history. Look how many years he's spent teasing out the strands of BushCo malfeasance.