Reply #43: That's a bit of an over-simplification, I think [View All]

[LittleClarkie]

It started there, but that's not where it finished.

Starting in Sept. with the Temple U. speech and going through the debates and miscellaneous things like "Going Upriver" support FOR the man started to grow. Maybe too little too late, but I saw several ABB turn into Kerry supporters. It's revisionist to deny that many of us were growing quite attached to our guy in the last month or so and getting excited. Volunteers sure did come out of the woodwork because of that first debate. Note I do mean BECAUSE of that first debate, and that was ALL Kerry.

That's why it hurt so damn much Nov. 2. The man looked like a winner. If we had was ABB, he would have looked like Dole coming into the final lap.

To political junkies perhaps Kerry is damaged goods, but I don't hear that as much from the rank and file voters I've run into. Some have surprised me actually with their emotion at what's going on. I didn't expect some guy who works for a dairy, with a wife and two kids to go around calling Bush "Hitler." I certainly didn't expect the 70 year old wife of a veteran to say she feared for our democracy.

I wonder what will make them all finally say "ENOUGH!"