Reply #8: One could argue that election was not worth winning

[BeyondGeography]

There was nothing Kerry could/would have done to reverse the mortgage securitization balloon (it caught the entire political and business establishment flat-footed), Iraq would have taken years to unwind, there would have been no appetite to change the tax code, and, when everything fell apart economically, which it would have, because the mortgage reckoning was decades in the making with Democratic and Republican support, Kerry would have been holding the bag.

I lost sleep when he lost, but it was nothing like 2000, which made me ill. The consolation prize in 2004 was the clarity of Bush as a failure, a Democratic Congress, because of the resulting hit the Republicans would take in 2006, and a Democratic President in 2008, none of which probably would have happened with Kerry winning in 2004. There was no consolation in 2000, only disaster.