Hartmann: "GOP wanted Kerry in '04"

[welshTerrier2]

tomorrow John Kerry will be asked along with every other Senator to vote an additional $50 Billion to continue the occupation of Iraq ... Mr. Kerry recently returned from Iraq and an "updated" position and speech have been speculated about ...

Well, the time for speechmaking was before tomorrow's vote to enable bush to continue his occupation for oil ... leadership, real leadership, comes before the vote ... not during or after the vote ...

I continue to hope that every Democrat in Congress, Kerry included, will finally wake up to the realities of bush's Iraq debacle that not only cannot succeed but is being fought for ill-conceived purposes ... I'll welcome all of them when they finally awaken ... the American people have had enough of bush's insanity in Iraq and the sleeping Democrats don't even have the decency to follow their lead ...

the time to find real leaders among most of our elected Democrats has long since passed ...

fwiw, here's a brief comment from Thom Hartman on last year's election:

From Thom Hartmann:

Dean was the only candidate the Republicans spent money to defeat in the Democratic primaries - over $1 million in the population-tiny but pivotal state of Iowa with the "latte-drinking, Volvo-driving" ads.

Why? Because their polling showed that in the general election he could have trounced Bush, whereas Bush had a chance against Kerry or Gephardt. Same as Nixon sending Colson to NH to put drugs into Muskie's coffee and forge the Canuck letter to make sure that Muskie would lose that primary, because Republican polling showed Muskie could have beaten Nixon but McGovern couldn't.

Republicans have been playing chess for 40 years - deciding who the Democratic candidate will be by intervening in the primaries - while the Dems are playing checkers...