Reply #31: Kerry threatened to do some of this [View All]

[PATRICK]

plainly pre-empting Bush's predictable slime, but then very little effectively happened. Was "leveling with the American people" a similar exaggeration? I got that impression as well as limits in other areas when one would have hoped the war hero not the cautious bureaucrat would have recognized a battlefield- NOT the debating floor.

Kerry said things about getting tough, then it was as if some advisers worked him over into long periods of second thought and delay. To be fair the rapid response at times, early on was good and devastating, but suppressed relative to the uncritical play given to the smears. When the RW does not get inattention it shouts louder like any tantrum child. But Democrats? They go back to the discussion rooms and draw back. Politics is ruled by the bad seeds. There are no rewards for good behavior.

The fact that the facts are suppressed does not mean you "can't go there". On the contrary, I regard that a a license to imagine the worst.
Again, the campaign and the media is not the law court. It is one big bad jury packed with bigots.