Could John Kerry wind up an alternative candidate for President?

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32. Those are good questions too. But Kerry failed to really challenge that treatment...

... in the way he should have had he been the leader we needed to reverse the problems we have with our party and the corporate influences that are becoming the cancer that it is killing it.

Of course he didn't deserve the treatment he got. And likely the corporate media didn't give enough attention to the manipulative game the swift boaters and their enablers were playing (which arguably included the media, and perhaps even some elements of the Democratic Party itself who are more loyal to corporate enablers than the party's constituency).

But as I noted before, I think even after defeat, he could have done the country and our government good by taking down the swift boaters in a lawsuit afterward, to expose and point out this kind of game that was going on, so that perhaps we could have found more ways to shut those kind of games down in the future, instead of allowing its success to enable other strategies by Koch Brothers and other corporatist entities later. Make the swift boaters PAY for their Bull Sh*t, and perhaps that would be also a signal to otherwise participating in such efforts that they could pay a price personally too.

I think if Bernie gets swift boated in a similar fashion, he won't go down without a fight and will fight with the spirit of not just "profiting" from such efforts financially in a law suit, but to make sure the system isn't enabled to play those games. I'm confident we need someone like him to fight that fight, that we really haven't had in my lifetime of candidates.