Reply #4: Say what you want, Kerry has inner strength.

[JDPriestly]

I've read a lot of criticism of Kerry on this forum, but, when all is said and done, he's got class, smarts and guts. Let's judge him by what he does in the next years. Yes, he should have responded more quickly to the Bush attacks in the campaign. And, yes, he should have taken the gloves off early on and told the brutal truth about Bush. But, everyone makes mistakes. It's not the mistakes that count. It's whether you learn from them.

Kerry has a lot of great qualities. He is very smart, a top rate debater, liberal enough on the issues (although he could do better on some like health insurance), acceptable to mainstream voters and came close to winning (or won depending on how you view the election fraud issue). Don't count him out for 2008. Give him a chance to show that this election made him more realistic about the Republican political tactics.