Reply #40: Well I am glad you would work for him in the general election at least

[WildEyedLiberal]

This is a democracy and a democracy has a healthy range of voices. Primaries are the chance for a party to choose from among a number of party candidates, and everyone has different preferences. You do not have to support him for the primaries, but many do and will, so it seems irrelevent to say that he "shouldn't run." Anyone who wishes to run will, and Kerry will be far from the least viable candidate in 2008.

I am glad you respect him, but with 2006 elections coming up, I think we need to NOT start quibbling over who is and isn't our choice for 2008 and instead join Kerry AND Feingold AND other Democrats who are fighting Bush NOW and fighting to get Democrats elected NOW.

The saddest part about all of this is that the great things these men are doing are getting overshadowed by the need of some to make it about 2008. Feingold's censure effort is brave and needed and we should all applaud it; ditto Kerry's filibuster attempt. Kerry's speech on patriotism and dissent was a barnburner and we should all listen and take heart, and hear what he is saying, which is - we need to get out of Iraq. That's something we should all be able to agree on. I don't want to lose sight of supporting all the things various Democrats are doing just to fight the primaries two years early.