Reply #117: oh so true [View All]

[Carolina]

I have been battling one of those Kerry lawyers locally who repeatedly, defensively says they did all they could do. Yet he's mute when I bombard him with all the stuff about voting machines and has been since 2002 when I first told him about Bev Harris. HE DIDN'T KNOW then and still won't acknowledge the strong possibility of fraud!

I went to a meeting last week of local Dems, including former DNC chair Don Fowler, and they're still stuck on the ideas of courting the religious groups, framing a message and other navel-gazing. I angrily pointed out that we're dealing with fascists who will DO ANYTHING (lie, cheat, steal) to gain and retain power; that we need to look at the media (what good does framing a message do if you've no vehicle to get it out and trotting out a message during election cycles does nothing to counter the ongoing, relentless repuke message on hate radio); and that we cannot allow the privatization (into Repuke corporations) of the vote tabulation.

These local party people all dismissed me as "tin foil" afflicted. They are so old school. They still want to make nice and run political campaigns like it's 1992. I give up. We need fighters.

Kerry was my first choice until his IWR vote. Then I became a Clark person. Part of me feels that with a Clark and Dean team there truly would have been NO Surrender, NO Retreat