And Then Kerry Said...

[stupidicus]

76. why is that such a surprise?

he was obviously writing a persuasion piece which would necessarily preclude any devil's advocating, no? Maybe you point out the bad things about what you're trying to sell, but I'll assume we can at least agree that pointing out weaknesses or undesirable things about those you're stridently advocating for on a board like this isn't done. After all, isn't Mr. Pitt's mocking of Kerry's remark what got your dander up and inspired to post something you thought was an ironclad case of what, hypocrisy?

It also as I recall, took quite some time for the bright light of truth to show what most of would describe as incontrovertibly, the almost full depth and breadth of the Bush wmd lies, and therefore to fully appreciate much sooner the mistake the dems that voted yea made. So even if Mr. Pitt, like many of us did, had concluded before posting those remarks that Kerry was in error with his AUMF vote, there's no reason to use that as a reason to vote for him, is there? That would be like including BHO's keeping chained cpi on the chopping block on his platform in explicit language to that effect, no?

He was obviously better than the alternative to Mr Pitt at the time, as even someone like HC will be in 2016 to the alternative to me.

I'm not so sure I could muster the same ambition for her as Mr Pitt did for Kerry though, but then I think she's worse in many ways than Kerry.

And his support for Kerry and the form it took then and Kerry recently trying to reclaim our collective moral authority with full knowledge of that sordid history we all share, and Mr Pitt's mocking of that, aren't mutually exclusive or even inconsistent things at all warranting a hypocrisy charge.

And I find such a charge amusingly hypocritical given the efforts of the purity police around here, should one of them advocate for it. His sin would been playing the devil's advocate then, and guilt of trying to throw the election as a stealth Bushbot. Charges would have been swift in the coming.... I know this because I read that and more well before the 2012 election for daring express any concerns about dear leader.