Reply #14: Yep, this is why we really lost [View All]

[sandnsea]

Have you read his Jan 2003 speech, "do not rush to war"? This speech, the Q&A, the interaction afterwards, it's the Kerry I've been watching forever. How about when he was on Chris Matthews at the Citadel, before the IWR vote, excellent exchange with those kids. He gave a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations that was called the most brilliant foreign policy speech in a decade. Did you hear that on the cablenews? Nope, and not in the blogosphere either except on the Kerry blog and a few others. In fairness, you didn't hear it from our own Dems in Congress either. I think too many of them were too frightened to actively support a "Massachusetts liberal". I think these are the reasons we weren't able to create a real sense of unity and vision and it's alot more important than how pro-choice or pro-gay he is. We let them drag us into their ring every time we talked about what they wanted to talk about, abortion, gay marriage, his Vietnam record, the vote, the $87 billion. We didn't fight our fight and that's what you have to do to win.