Reply #59: Kerry will most likely win with or without Nader. [View All]

[bornskeptic]

Dean would not have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning even if Nader didn't run. Of course the DLC didn't want Dean. No Democrat with the least trace of common sense wanted Dean. Dean in the general election would have made Nixon-McGovern and Reagan-Mondale look like squeakers. But the DLC never pushed for Kerry. Their candidate was Lieberman, and you see how much good that did for Lieberman. The DLC always considered Kerry to be too liberal and too "nuanced and boring" to be electable. So did the media, and so did the Republicans. It was the Democratic voters who chose Kerry, and judging by the way Rove and company have been hammering at Kerry for the last three weeks while leaving Edwards alone, it appears that the Republicans think the Democratic voters made a wise choice.