Reply #70: I never considered Kerry "electable". Just the opposite. He was the DLC choice. [View All]

Why would anyone think that a super wealthy liberal from Massachusetts who spoke like a professor, and coming across as condescending to boot, was especially "electable". On top of that, Kerry was a worse campaigner than Gore, whom I like.

I remember reading a post in 2004 by a Democrat who had a grandmother who lived down South and who was a Republican. She disliked Bush and told this grandchild that she was not going to vote for him. The poster asked her if she was going to vote for Kerry. She said, "No!". When asked why not, she replied "Because he never came here to ask for my vote." Kerry wrote off the "Red" states, and lost the election. My conjecture is that the DLC types figured that "anyone" could beat Bush, so just hand the election to one of their own.

In pushing Hillary to be the nominee, if they get their way, they are going to put another Republican in the White House. Of the 2004 candidates, only Dean, whom I supported, had the right idea for winning the presidency. It was Dean's pushing a Democratic candidate in every contest that got us a majority in the House.

DLC lackies in state governments undermined progressive candidates in state races and prevented us from gaining more House and Senate seats. Doesn't anyone remember the Senate race in Connecticut? The DLC comes across as a group that is looking out only for its own interests, the public be damned.

Kerry wasn't picked by the "people" because they independently thought he was "electable". That was a propaganda pitch foisted on America by a DLC that used the "fear factor" to push their own candidate on us who then lost.