John Kerry would have been a great liberal President.

[kentuck]

His entire life has been devoted to the higher ideals of liberalism. But, he is also a realist. He understands that there is a difference in campaigning and governing. The manner in which one campaigns does not necessarily mean that is the way they will govern. Prime example is George W Bush, who ran as a "compassionate conservative" but governs as a right-wing radical.

If John Kerry had won, he would have fought hard to get our troops out of Iraq, notwithstanding that he voted for the "authorization". He did not vote for the present "war". He would have been a champion for the environment. He would have been a champion for peace in the Middle East. He would have been a champion for healthcare. IF...IF ...If he had been elected, we would have had a great liberal leader in the White House, in my opinion.

[Paradise]

1. You knew! So did I! n/t

[Jasper 91]

2. So did the majority of us

Now if we can just prove it....

[KarenS]

3. John Kerry,,,,

I really do not think of him as a "Liberal". He is a Moderate. I was not excited about him during the Democratic Primaries (Kucinich was my choice) but as time went by & I heard him speak & read about his life ~ I began to believe that he would be a great President!! A healing force.

and,,,, just because the Media has declared the "Election" over, it isn't really over yet, there are still alot of procedural steps to be taken.

[catbert836]

4. Didn't we all?

And we still might live to see liberal President Kerry.... we just need to, in the words of Cptn. Picard "make it so".

[SoCalDem]

5. He could have been good, but "might" have been hopelessly

hobbled by the composition of the congress. The ONE truly good effect he could have had, would have been to NOT appoint rightwing wackos to the SCOTUS.. but then we will never know now..

I fear that a Kerry presidency would have looked very much like the Clinton presidency (minus the sex scandals).. Everything he might have tried to do would have been openly dissed in the media, ridiculed on the senate floor, and ultimately doomed by the partisanship we are currently suffering from.

Don't forget too, that the SwiftieLiars and the religious NUTS have been whipped into a Kerry-hating frenzy that probably even THEY don't understand, but I fear that some nut out there might have tried to "make a name for himself" and earn a ticket to heaven..

Even though it really hurts like hell, perhaps *² DESERVES what will come his way in the next 4 years. Losing would have only martyred him, and his minions would have written endlessly about "all that he had planned for his second term" and all the wonderful things he would have done, if only....

The next 4 years should prove positively that he has NO CLUE what he is doing, except for the bankrupting of the nation, in favor of his rich buddies..

He deserves the ridicule and infamy headed his way..

Kerry could not have turned this runaway train around in 4 years, without a lot of support from and a big dose of reality aimed at the very people who hate him the most..and it could have even energized Jebbie to "salvage his brother's interrupted glory".. :puke:

[LaurenG]

6. John Kerry was too advanced in his thinking

For most of the red states. It is once again how you play the game. I thought Kerry was just being himself and had some advisors who needed a lobotomy.

IMHO Our nation is in the middle of huge changes, big agendas and an underground war for the soul of our nation. If you have ever noticed in your own life when things are changing we tend to go from one extreme to the other until hitting on what we consider the right place. Take assertiveness, when you are trying to learn that you swing from aggressive to complacent until you learn what assertive means. I think that most of America was not ready to be "assertive" yet when it came to voting.

We have given up nothing to the right wing but thay are certainly trying to steal something. I have said since we lost it really is about insisting on using the tools that we have to wrestle the idea that we are less spiritual away from the Rovians (neocon corporate CR.) Its a ploy about security, God and patriotism. What more would you need to get a bunch of unaware American's to follow you into hell?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Too bad he fell for the "electability" crappola and swung right.

I supported Kerry before he even announced. Then came the incredibly cynical and obviously political vote for the war.

From that point on he played the pander game of going after the middle by trying to be all things to everybody.

I did manage to hold my nose and stifle the gag reflex long enough to vote for him - or, more realistically - against Boobya. The result was predictable.

Another weak candidate on a pandering platform lost again.

I have no sympathy or admiration for him. He sold out and paid the price.

[greenohio]

8. NO WAY...HE WAS RIGHT WING, HE WAS DLC...THEY ARE THE GREAT SATAN

or as some believe.

I think John Kerry would have been a great liberal President as well.