I was reading the front page of the paper today waiting for lunch when I read a teaser "Kerry's Purple Heart Questioned, See 6a". My stomach dropped. It would not help our efforts to get rid of Bush for some bad dirt to be found in Kerry's past.
And that's my dilemna. I want Bush out of the White House. I don't feel safe with him at the controls. But our only chance of accomplishing that is getting Kerry elected. By gosh I'm going to do everything I can to make it happen. But when it comes down to it, so much of getting Kerry elected is out of my hands. What if he forgot to pay his taxes for his live-in house keeper? What if he slept around while in Vietnam and had a baby out of wed-lock? What if there's a till-now-unknown picture of him embracing some wacko from the sixties?
Then I guess I need to convince as many people as I can that a president guiltly of any of those things still has to be better than a president whose lies mean the death of thousands of innocent Iraqis and hundreds of US soldiers, whose manipulation of the system makes his friends and family richer while everyone making under $200k get screwed.
"Not all dirty bastards are the same."
// posted by ralph at
07:22 PM
