They're beating their heads at their own stupidity. I'm glad the Left is still in the dark! (laughing)
Some of them have flashes of insight from time to time, but many careen along in their own parallel universe. Their cluelessness opens them up to great disappointment.
Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-08-05 12:48 PM
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my open letter to John Kerry...
Dear John Kerry: Thanks so much for your recent email....let me see if I understand you correctly:
What you are saying is: "I will continue to ask you to do all the work while I do nothing whatsoever, because there's nothing in it for me, really. I can't be president so I will expend no effort. However, here's some phone numbers so you can call the low level switchboards without getting through a phalanx of bureaucrats to reach people I actually come in contact with every day at work but refuse to carry the message to them while having a gin and tonic with them in the senate lounge.
So, instead of me representing YOU, as you might think my job would require, I"m going to stand back and let you represent YOURSELVES and throw yourself against the windmills of general access phone numbers, while I, in possession of these guy's private phone numbers on my cellphone speeddial, will continue to hoard the money you donated specifically to contest the election and save it for my next run at the office in 2008.
So, I don't have your back so much as I have the audacity to give you a phone number you could find yourself in a google search and tell you to sweat really, really, hard against the majority party who stole the election and somehow convince them to pay attention to you among the clamor of lobbyists from Diebold, Pfizer, Halliburton and Carlysle.
Good luck, and I won't even pay for your call. Do it on your own dime."
Do I have that right?
If so, here's my response: you're right. We SHOULD continue to work ourselves for election reform and protect the right of voters to see their voices get heard. And you're also right that we should no longer depend on YOU to do that for us, because that's obviously not going to happen. You're more concerned about your own political ambitions than "watching our backs".
I worked hard for your campaign, I donated, I talked you up, I put signs up in neighbor's yards, etc. But there were people that did a whole lot more than me, and in a way I"m glad that you are being such a wimp at this point because it reminds us that NO single candidate is more important that democracy itself. Protecting the right to vote fairly is more of a moral imperative than even unseating such a dangerous man as Bush.
I'm glad you being a coward and bowing out of the process at this point. I"m glad you're abandoning those who worked for you, and I"m glad you refused to stand up and support Boxer and Conyers. Because you aren't worthy to unlatch their sandals. They're working for US. You're still working for YOU.
I hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes, Sen. Kerry. Because I, for one, refuse to give you any more time.