Reply #31: I can show you why I think you are wrong [View All]

"the Repugs would have called Kerry a sore loser had he spoken out, but the message would have gotten out."

I don't think so. Would this be similar to how, despite being mislabeled and smeared as a loony liberal who was too angry, Dean was able to get his message out simply by speaking during the primaries? Didn't work out that way for him, did it? The media, if they wish, can easily report on the spin rather than on the fact. In this case, the spin would have been "Kerry is a sore loser" and everything important about voter fraud would be tossed in order to find everything and anything to pump that script.

Making Kerry the main mover and shaker behind the debate just leaves us open for a broadside and a perfect frame to dismiss all electoral fruad, and we don't need to expose ourselves to make progress. Boxer and some other prominent Democrats, in conjunction with the disassociation from overturning anything, can give the Democrats enough room to move around in without Kerry clouding things. Now that it's clear the Republicans' attempted frame is a fraud, let's see what our party can do.