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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:38 AM
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Why did Kerry fold?
Why Did Kerry Fold? Ohio Recount Stirs Distressing Nuttiness
by Ron Rosenbaum
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage8.asp
Mr. Kerry, for instance—if he were smart, if he were truly forward-thinking and unselfish—could have changed what is now becoming the Master Narrative of the Election (a "mandate" based on "values" means: get pious or else). If he had made the speech I suggest (or some version of it), he could have changed the focus from Mr. Bush’s popular-vote win (only 51 percent anyway) to a narrative about the unresolved closeness of the margin. About how the country remains divided—at least electorally—rather than the false (based on misread, inaccurate exit polls) triumph of righteousness (and self-righteousness).
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He made it all about him. All about how he’d look, about his image, perhaps about his future, his pathetic dream of running another inept campaign. What about his followers, who put their hearts into the campaign and were cheated of certainty so Mr. Kerry could bask in the goo-goo congratulations of the sappy and wrong-headed "spare the country" editorialists.
But in fact, he hasn’t spared the country anything.
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Still, after the nightmare of Florida and the destabilizing effect it had on the polity, we all deserve a fair and exact count, and Mr. Kerry should be out front fighting for it. Didn’t he run as the bemedaled hero unafraid to fight the Viet Cong and Al Qaeda? Should he really be afraid of Ohio? Turn that Swift boat back to shore, John. You’ve stranded your supporters.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:40 AM
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1. He lost the $1 bet with his Skull and Bones Brother
I'm sure they had a gnetleman's bet on who would be declared winner first, the loser agrees to give the winner $1 and concede the election.

:tinfoilhat:
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-18-04 11:42 AM
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2. DUPE - see here
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