This is ridiculous. All you so-called liberal Democrats have spent the last
year cheering on Kerry and shunning Ralph Nader. Anything to get Bush out of
office. So there you were on Election Day, sporting your Kerry-Edwards buttons.
And then he lost. By 3 million votes. And now you shun Kerry as is he is the
anti-Christ.
This week, high-profile Democrats are holding a meeting in Florida to figure
out what went wrong. John Kerry and Howard Dean will be there. Gee, I wonder
how much that is going to accomplish. I can tell you right now – NOTHING!
The fact is your party is screwed-up. You shun Kerry for losing the election,
yet it is your own fault. Think about it: at the Democratic National Convention
in July, Kerry said that he planned to send more troops to Iraq, and he never
denied that he would institute a draft. And of course, as a liberal Democrat,
these are two very important issues to you; therefore Kerry’s views do
not align with yours.
Wait, hold on a minute. The Democratic National Convention was held back in
July. Ok, according to your beliefs John Kerry should NOT be our next president.
Yet, YOU all continued to back Kerry, voted for Kerry, and at the very same
time begged Ralph Nader to stay out of the election. It is obviously YOUR fault
that George W. Bush is our president for the next four years. You backed the
guy who didn’t even share your viewpoints. You gave into the same ideology
that your candidate, John Kerry did. Ralph Nader has no chance of winning because
he’s too left-wing. That was John Kerry’s thinking when he tried
to lean to the right to get votes by telling us that he would send more troops
to Iraq.
Well, guess what: you were both wrong. No conservative Republican, or even an
independent, with half a brain, is going to trust a guy who alienates his own
anti-war base just to get votes. So, Kerry didn’t gain any votes with
his tactic; yet none of his supporters, that would be YOU, held his feet to
the fire for betraying you. No, you kept chanting “Kerry, Kerry.”
But it was too late; Bush had already won the election, through his honesty;
he never leaned to the left to gain votes. No, he stood his ground, and his
supporters, and even many undecided voters, respected that. I mean, come on,
what kind of undecided person is going to vote for the guy who is supported
by a bunch of people who don’t even agree with him? To an undecided person
the choice was clear: vote for the guy with actual support, or vote for the
guy whose only attribute is that he’s not George W. Bush.
So, yes, John Kerry lost the election by swinging to the right. But YOU pushed
George W. Bush over the edge by being hypocritical supporters without the strength
of character to stand up for what you believe in and hold your candidate responsible
for his comments. Any clear-thinking person can see that the candidate you should
have been backing was Ralph Nader; anti-war and liberal on the issues you care
about. But you did not back Nader; instead you threatened and cursed him. Now,
why should anyone want to vote for your candidate?
The fact is the Democratic Party is weak. You can hold all the meetings in the
world, but until your Party decides where it stands, and does so honestly, the
American voters are not even going to bother paying any attention to you. And,
unlike the split that is growing among Republicans, the divide between the extreme
and moderate Democrats is something that probably cannot be healed. The best
chance for the survival of the Democratic Party is to decide if it wants to
become super-leftist, or to embrace the old Democratic traditions of the likes
of John F. Kennedy. That would be the best solution: a strong Democratic Party
and a strong Green Party. And then, with any luck, the moderate conservatives
will take back the Republican Party and leave the religious zealots to the Conservative
Party. That would be the only way for the majority of Americans to honestly
voice their opinions. And yes, it can work; it just requires some changes in
how our government is run. And it is prime time for change.