Reply #112: Now that the worm has turned, it might be a good idea to consider who helped in the turning [View All]

[karynnj]

As soon as the election was over in 2004, the Clintons and their allies immediately whispered to their beltway friends that John Kerry was inappropriately trying to be a party leader. Kerry did have a claim as a (if not the) party leader as a very clear cut winner of the primaries and a man who came within 60,000 votes to being President. Hillary, with no such claim, was declared a leader. But it was Kerry who led on Alito and on Iraq. It was the Clinton wing who triangulated on Alito and were more concerned with the political calendar than what was right on the war.