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Post by Dr. Ron on Light Up The Darkness blog. The "Daou Report" has it linked in so it would be helpful to have some supportive comments.

Kerry Was Right to Stay Away
8 January 2005


Kerry is taking a lot of heat in the blogosphere for not being in Washington during the challenge of the 2004 election. His absence not the way to judge Kerry's actions on election reform. He has already had a team of lawyers in to investigate, and we will hear more from him in the future. There simply was not enough evidence to prove election fraud sufficient to overturn the election results.

There are many issues to be pursued. Strategically this is best done as something totally separate from the type of challenge conducted in Congress.

Election reform must be pushed as an issue which Democrats, independents, and fair minded Republican can all support, without remaining a Kerry vs. Bush issue. The more election reform can be viewed as a question of who won the 2004 election, the more likely the media can portray it as a Quixotic attempt to overturn the election, and ignore the real issues. Those who voted for Bush are much more likely to support election reform if they do not see this as a Kerry vs. Bush issue.

With the 2004 election behind us, Kerry can return in the future and argue for issues such as reasonable waiting time, maintaining a paper trail, and prohibiting election officials from being actively involved in working for one candidate. For now, I'm happy to see him in Iraq, hoping he can return to take on Bush on Iraq as he took on Nixon over Vietnam and Reagan over the Iran Contra scandal.

While I sympathized with those who protested the election and wished them well, this was a side show which may have done more harm than good, and Kerry was very wise to stay away. For example, from Friday's First Read:

Only time and polling will tell, but we wonder if something happened yesterday beyond Democrats' clear discomfort with the dispute of the results, and with the GOP's arguable overzealousness in rejecting the claims -- that electoral reform moved a notch away from being an issue of concern to the general public, and one step closer to becoming viewed as a partisan Democrat issue touted by liberals and minorities.

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