Reply #14: Sigh! Maybe, maybe not [View All]

[TayTay]

I have heard Sen. Kerry say, as have others, that a week is an eternity in politics because anything can happen. That is as true for the difference between this week and next as it was for the difference between last week and this.

This will go away. (It was, after all, about nothing. If Sen. Kerry had said something definably negative about the troops, instead of the questionable thing he did say, then that would have been a sustained wound. This, not so much.)

I am sorry this whole mess happened. But that's the way it goes. People are, after all, human and make mistakes. Kerry made his this week. Others will make theirs in the weeks to come. Mistakes are inevitable. What I deeply regret is that other Dems, Dems who should know better, did not back the good Senator more. We, as Democrats, should have more fully learned that lesson by now.

Politics, in some ways, is the most zen thing I can think of. If you don't like how it is this week, tune in next week, it will all be different. All things exist only in the moment in which they exist, if at all. Sigh!

There are lessons to be learned. Kerry is a smart man, he will no doubt take them under advisement. One, it really is true that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Two, Republicans suck and are a dishonest bunch who will turn any little thing into a huge argument and three, never, ever trust John McCain again. That man is not to be trusted for anything. He has sold his soul.

We live to fight another day. And so it goes.