Reply #58: This whole bru-ha-ha has nothing

[Dhalgren]

to do with being able to take a joke, or the political correctness of the base of the joke. This has to do with Kerry taking a cheap shot at Dean and it landing on Gore. Was the joke funny? Maybe, if it had been said in the context of a couple of friends at a party. But to somehow denigrate Al Gore - to perpetuate making him a laughing-stock, is poor Democratic tactics.

What has happened is that the tried and true (read DLC) methods and talking points of the Democratic "mainstream" candidates have evaporated - 'poof' - and now they are left without much to say. They all lined up and voted like good Republicans on every vote Frome told them they should. Now, all that is coming back to bite them in the ass and they (i.e. Kerry, Edwards, Lieberman, etc.) don't know what to do. It's easy, fellas, drop out and support one of the candidates that have the ear of the people. You will not win, if you have just rescently returned from the land of the dead (Roveville)