Why Kerry Wants to Lose
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| Mon, 10-18-2004 - 12:27am |
As I dialed my fiancés number I knew that I had to break off our relationship. I felt with deep intensity that my dream, although a hodge-podge of images, represented more truth than I was willing to admit. If I was to stay in this relationship and go through with our marriage I would regret it forever after.
But I didn't have the heart (guts) to say what I was thinking out loud. We began with our usual chit-chat and exchange of small pleasantries but the conversation moved inexorably towards a major argument. I admit it. I started the whole thing. I invented an issue to gripe about, then pulled it, twisted it, turned it around and made it into a "deal breaker". Before long we were both raising our voices. She, in tears of frustration and anger, managed to say through her sobs, "I can't believe you just said that. You aren't the person I thought you were. I don't feel we should see each other any more."
I hung up the phone with a huge sigh of relief. Yes, she thought I was an absolute jerk but I was willing to be the bad guy that she had to throw out rather than the bad guy who had broken off the enagagement. It was easier to be the dumpee rather than the dumper.
John Kerry knows what I'm talking about. He has mangaed to take an issue that the Republicans have not only pushed and played upon but has turned it to his own disadvantage. Bush and his cronies have all intention of making homosexuality illegal. Of course, they don't come right out and say it but they will get there, taking it in small steps, nevertheless.
Then along comes Kerry, in a televised political debate, no less, and calls Cheney's daughter a lesbian. It matters little that she is, in fact, a lesbian. The very fact that he said it, out loud, makes him a bad guy. He has appeared on TV and been interviewed innumerable times, trying to put a good face to it, but the fact remains, he has said something that is considered taboo.
And Kerry can now let out a huge sigh of relief.
Somewhere, some night, during the past year or so, Kerry awoke from a fitful night of tormented sleep and realized that he didn't want to be president. Even his lackluster performance as a candidate had not been enough to dissuade the true believers from campaigning for him. He did everything in his power to make George look good. But he kept having to lower the bar. It's not easy to under perform a man whose only claims to fame are a famous dad and a repeat war.
We can only imagine what Kerry's nightmare must have been. Maybe he'll write about it some day but it may have gone something like this. Bush has committed the US and several hundred thousand troops to a war impossible to win. Eventually the US will have to concede defeat and pull out. Oh, it will be called a victory but history will tell the true story.
Bush has pushed the US into a declining economy, with rising unemployment and outsourced jobs, with a deficit unlike anything seen before.
The US is poised in two camps, the righteous right and the struggling left. Bush has driven through the Patriot Act and taken away liberties most Americans assumed were their rights. Bottom line is that no president, at least none of the names currently put forth, will be able to turn the tables around.
It is sort of like watching on the sidelines as a good friend declines into the pits of alcoholism or drug abuse. Any advice that can be offered falls on deaf ears. The US needs to plummet to the depths of its own creation. It needs to hit bottom before it will realize that it must turn around and change its ways. If Kerry were to step in now, he would not stop the decline. He would merely delay it.
When Kerry awoke that one morning and realized he was striving for a position he would come to regret, he decided that retreat was the better part of valor. So he opens his mouth and spits out a stupid comment. He has succeeded in making himself into the dumpee.
Of course, the only bad part is that the US is left with the one remaining candidate, the father of its ruin; Bush.
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