Maybe it's just me, but I am getting a sense that some Dems are not 100% down with their candidate's message.
Maybe they should be.
Magical thinking and Secret Plans someone's kitten just knows Kerry had to do a 180 on the main issues that will decide the future of your (and his) grandchildren aside, whether people voted for Kerry or for Bush, they voted for a lot of the same things, the most relevant to events outside the US involving US-funded gunmen, torturers and sexual predators marauding around the globe doing what the US taxpayers pay them to do.
While it is my opinion that the question should not be who can do it better, or describe it in more palatable (to Americans, not the victims) terms, but whether "it" should be done at all, the number of people who think that way is very small.
Very very small. Most Americans, whether they consider themselves Democrats or Republicans, left or right, liberal or conservative, do not strongly oppose US policy.
And as events unfold, the number of those who do will get smaller.
If this many millions have been willing to go along to get along throughout the invasion of two countries, the slaughter of nobody knows how many thousands, the Abu Ghraib photos, (and all that just in the last few years) and STILL parrot the memes and schemes that pour out from centcom, how far down is that number going to shrink as the stakes get higher, as it becomes costlier to oppose the regime, even in only the smallest, most symbolic ways?
The window has closed. The choices have been made, the die cast, and surprisingly, I am not about to insult Americans with insinuations that they did not weigh the cost, and decide that whatever the consequences, for whatever reasons they may have, it is not without consideration that they have concluded that the consequences are worth it. It is their feelings, their choice, their values.
The candidate has pointed out the way. He has illuminated it with his pragmatism.
Go into the light.
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