Reply #121: But that's not the way it came off to a lot of people.

[TayTay]

You are seeing a 'black and white' case where a lot of people are seeing gray. To stick with your kidnapping analogy, a lot of people are seeing a child who spent the night with a relative who forgot to inform the parents that they were staying the night. This is a while different story and much murkier in figuring out intent and motive of crime.

Many people on DU and the other liberal spots on the web believe that election fraud occurred in 2004 and that it might have been significant and widespread enough to have changed the outcome of the election. We now have to prove it. This means proving it not to an audience of liberals but to the wider American population. There is also a dedicated army of people on 'the other side' who are just as motivated to prove that this is nothing but a 'sour grapes' move on the part of the Democrats and that Dems should be pitied more than anything else for their delusional beliefs and inability to let go of '04.

This is not about Kerry anymore. He legally lost and nothing can change that. What he can do is try and continue to gather evidence and stay involved in the lawsuits that challenge the results of the last election and try to get definable proof by getting into those election machines. Then he has to convince others in the Democratic Party to take this issue seriously. So far there have been grumblings about the election system, but no other national Dem has done more than sign onto legislation that promises reform but that everyone knows has no chance of passage in this Congress. (At all. That doesn't mean you don't pursue it, but do know that there are powerful forces that oppose you and that just mentioning the topic isn't the same thing as solving the problem.)

I see this fight as lasting a long time. There are just too many people who don't want to know that this is happening and don't want to believe that democracy can be hijacked like this. We have to be prepared to make this argument to 'non-believers' hundreds and hundreds of times, over and over and over until it sinks in. That's the only way.