Reply #18: We can't have Kerry and to many of us he is the measure we are now comparing everyone to [View All]

Not surprisingly, they all come up short. This is to be expected because many (or even all of us) have said that in Kerry we found a candidate who ended up impressing us more than any in our lifetime.

Even the worse Democrat is immensely better than Bush - and some of the Republican choices can be as bad as Bush hard as that is to believe. Huckabee, genial on the outside but with a mind that is down right scary would be far worse than any of the Democrats.

On Obama, you may be reading things written by people who far prefer HRC or Edwards. His work in the Illinois Senate and the US Senate are far better than Edwards' - and remember Kerry trusted Edwards enough to put him in a position where he could have under awful circumstances become President. I trust Kerry enough to think that he believed Edwards could be a reasonable President. There were reports months ago of Kerry and Obama having a long dinner together in DC where they looked like they were having a good conversation. There is every reason to think that Obama, if elected, would trust Kerry's judgment enough that he would be one of the people whose opinions are sought out - something that will likely not happen with most Republicans.

When I knew I would vote for the Democrat - yes, even the Hillary monster (as my husband has started to joking call her) - was when Bush vetoed S-CHIP. This showed the stakes - no Democrat would have vetoed it.