Finally, THIS is what we need to MASS MAIL to ALL Democrat leaders!

[BigBearJohn]

Committed Democrats watched while Al Gore frittered away the sure-thing election of 2000. They watched, passively, while the Bush administration concocted a phony war; they, in the main, voted for the war knowing it was purposeless, out of fear of being thought weak. They then ran a candidate who refused to stand up to accusations of lack of patriotism.

The Republicans, like the perpetual raiser at the poker table, became increasingly bold as the Democrats signaled their absolute reluctance to seize the initiative.

John Kerry lost the 2004 election combating an indictment of his Vietnam War record. A decorated war hero muddled himself in merely "calling" the attacks of a man with, curiously, a vanishing record of military attendance. Even if the Democrats and Kerry had prevailed (that is, succeeded in nullifying the Republicans arguably absurd accusations), they would have been back only where they started before the accusations began.

Control of the initiative is control of the battle. In the alley, at the poker table or in politics. One must raise. The American public chose Bush over Kerry in 2004. How, the undecided electorate rightly wondered, could one believe that Kerry would stand up for America when he could not stand up to Bush? A possible response to the Swift boat veterans would have been: "I served. He didn't. I didn't bring up the subject, but, if all George Bush has to show for his time in the Guard is a scrap of paper with some doodling on it, I say the man was a deserter."

This would have been a raise. Here the initiative has been seized, and the opponent must now fume and bluster and scream unfair. In combat, in politics, in poker, there is no certainty; there is only likelihood, and the likelihood is that aggression will prevail.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-mamet16sep16,1,2522995,print.story

[blm]

1. Kerry stood up to Bush in the debates and won. That was his man to man

battle.

He won all 3 debates decisively.

The left leaning media and the objective media GOT THEIR ASSES HANDED TO THEM by the organized relentless message of the RW media and its organized LIE MACHINES.

And Kerry still won.

I am awaiting the day when one journo steps forward and points the fingers at themselves....but, it will never happen for allowing their asses to get kicked by the RW media who drowned them out on a daily basis.

Kerry won his match up with Bush.

[ima_sinnic]

2. so this person actually believes that Kerry lost the election? (nt)

[texpatriot2004]

4. Kerry Won Get Over It. n/t

[hardrainfallin]

7. Kerry won by a LANDSLIDE (Get over it). n/t

[texpatriot2004]

8. Yeah, you know historically people don't turn out in droves and

wait for hours and hours facing hostility while trying to cast their votes FOR MORE OF THE SAME...YEAH RIGHT.

[hardrainfallin]

9. Anyone who believes ** won this election has to have a really, really

extremely disgustingly LOW opinion of the American people.

I admit, internationally we are not some of the sharpest tacks in the drawer, and it's taken us a long time to come around on many issues (but obviously, on the environmental things, we had begun coming around, as Al Gore's 2000 Election victory attests)-- However, collectively we are not fucking stupid or morally depraved enough to have actually put GWB in office.

It's really sick that people--both within this country and outside it--think so little of us to believe that we the people actually would have put this scumbag in office.


We aren't that stupid.

[texpatriot2004]

10. You can read for yourself here. It's only one of the places telling

the truth.

http://www.legitgov.org/coup_2004.html

[hardrainfallin]

11. Do you think I don't agree with you or am not informed?

I think I've made it pretty obvious that I KNOW about the fraud.

In fact, I don't believe ** got more than 30 Million legit votes--never have, and NEVER will.

[Cleita]

3. Unfortunately we have much more at stake than a card game.

Think of the lives lost because of this cowardice.

[BigBearJohn]

6. The card game was a metaphor. Dems need better tactics if we will ever win

[NYCGirl]

5. Very good. Mamet is right.

And I love his plays, too!