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Wednesday, November 03, 2004
The following was posted to the JohnKerry.com "Report a Voting Problem" form:
There was a problem with my candidate. Where does Kerry get off conceding before all the votes have been counted? I had counted on him to preserve the backbone implant that Howard Dean had given the Party, but like the flip-flopper that the GOP had accused him of, as soon as the going got rough, Kerry chickened out and didn't live up to his promise, reiterated just last night by Edwards, that "every vote would count and would be counted". There still remains the possibility that kerry could win the Electoral College vote and not the popular vote, and if so, would be every bit as entitled to the Presidency as the current Resident of the White House, but now that he has conceded, Kerry will never know if that may have happened.
For what, to reconcile with the GOP? No thank you! We should be marshalling our troops to resist the greatest assult on American values since the War of 1812, but instead, we are appeasing the facist neo-cons in a vain attempt to appeal to a non-existent centrist mainstream.
As a life-long Democrat, I am disgusted and humiliated by my Party's behavior in the last two elections. If this election is not recognized as the wake-up call long needed and future planning is as timid and ineffectual as it has been in the new millenium, then we will be trivilaized and supplanded by a Party with values to drive it, like the Greens.
Democrats, learn something from the debacles of 2000 & 2004. Return to your root values, and represent them faithfully. Don't try to adjust your message to your percieved political currents.
There was a problem with my candidate. Where does Kerry get off conceding before all the votes have been counted? I had counted on him to preserve the backbone implant that Howard Dean had given the Party, but like the flip-flopper that the GOP had accused him of, as soon as the going got rough, Kerry chickened out and didn't live up to his promise, reiterated just last night by Edwards, that "every vote would count and would be counted". There still remains the possibility that kerry could win the Electoral College vote and not the popular vote, and if so, would be every bit as entitled to the Presidency as the current Resident of the White House, but now that he has conceded, Kerry will never know if that may have happened.
For what, to reconcile with the GOP? No thank you! We should be marshalling our troops to resist the greatest assult on American values since the War of 1812, but instead, we are appeasing the facist neo-cons in a vain attempt to appeal to a non-existent centrist mainstream.
As a life-long Democrat, I am disgusted and humiliated by my Party's behavior in the last two elections. If this election is not recognized as the wake-up call long needed and future planning is as timid and ineffectual as it has been in the new millenium, then we will be trivilaized and supplanded by a Party with values to drive it, like the Greens.
Democrats, learn something from the debacles of 2000 & 2004. Return to your root values, and represent them faithfully. Don't try to adjust your message to your percieved political currents.
