Reply #25: clarification [View All]

[For PaisAn]

True, the republicans would be bashing anyway but it will be far more damaging now that they can show, in ads, the faces and words of fellow Democratic primary candidates bashing the eventual Democratic presidential candidate.

I don't discount Kerry because of polls, polls are BS. My issue with Kerry is that he has not vigorously pursued clarifying his IWR vote. I've had many conversations with his campaign people and they just don't get it. This is the defining issue for Kerry. It will make or break him. It's a shame that his progressive history may get buried under the Iraq issue.

Clark may very well get trounced by Republicans as "inexperienced". All the candidates will get trounced on something. We have to decide which candidates can best withstand the trouncing and have enough positives to outweigh the negatives in the view of the majority of voting Americans.

That candidate will be a personal decision for each of us. I'm not trying to influence or convince anyone of anything. I just had some
suggestions on a possible way of approaching the decision making process.

Your response was intelligent and was in no way an attack and I appreciate that.