[lbo-talk] No, actually, I don't believe it.

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Deborah:
> And because he was hand-picked and annointed by the DNC leadership to
> be their man long before there was a Howard Dean or Wes Clark or
> anyone else, and that same DNC leadership didn't budge from their
> corporate-like decision to stick with him.   They systematically
> discounted the war experience of Clark, the better soundbites from
> Sharpton and most anything said by Kuchinich.  Kerry just followed
> the steps on the floor that the DNC dance teachers put in front of
> him. The fix was in, and it was painfully obvious and offensive to
> old school grassroot Democrats once they realized that their party
> was throwing away an opportunity to defeat such a problematic
> president.

So if that was the case, why did he attract the largest number of people
voting for him in recent history, more than Clinton or Gore.  If he was such
a handpicked functionary, unpopular with the masses, people would not bother
to come in droves and support him, no?

You seem to be forgetting that a lot of people register to vote for the
first time to support Bush - and that cannot be explained by the alleged
lackluster character of Kerry campaign or inside Democrat politics.

Wojtek