Getting Kerried Away

I didn't watch the Democrat's debate last night for a number of reasons.

Is there really any point in them debating any more? About the only thing left to determine is when Howard Dean will finally get the message that he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

All the debate really does is give Edwards a chance to score points with Kerry for the VP slot.

Kucinich and Sharpton matter less now than they did in January - if that's even possible.

The kids went to be early and I didn't want to wake them up screaming at the television.

I did read a number of news stories and blog reports this morning- including this Semi-Intellligent running commentary.

I did spend some amount of time thinking about the debate. Specifically about John Kerry and this one quote I came across and commented on at Annika's Journal

There's only one thing wrong with the Patriot Act. Two words: John Ashcroft.

Annika wondered

Well, I wonder how Mr. Kerry can explain why he voted for it then, since John Ashcroft was Attorney General at the time.

I commented

So if Kerry is elected and appoints a new attorney general who proceeds to use the powers of the Patriot Act In the exact manner as the current administration, that would be O.K.?

So the widespread (alleged) trampling of individual rights would be OK if done by anyone other than Ashcroft? Or would it only be O.K. if done by a Democrat?

I find myself really hoping that there is nothing to the intern story and that Kerry wins the nomination. I want him on the campaign trail facing off against the George Bush - Carl Rove campaign machine. I hope they hammer him brutally and relentlessly with every obscenely hypocritical statement he has ever made. I want to see the Republicans expose him for what he is. I want to see Kerry reduced to a stuttering whimpering blob of moral equivalence and political expedience. I want to see his political career go down in flames to a degree that even the voters of Massachusetts will not lift him out the smoldering ruin for another term in the senate. They say we get the government we deserve, but no one - not even John Kerry - deserves a government with John Kerry as president.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:22 PM | No Comments | Add Comment