Reply #104: Garbo...

[Peace Patriot]

"And if the fraud claims gain traction and wider attention, then I figure the smear campaign will roll out."

This IS going to happen--both parts of it. The fraud claims will get traction because the evidence has become overwhelming, but there is another reason--because Kerry voters want and need to know this. They know deep down in their hearts that Bush Inc. could not have won a fair election, but most don't have the facts, many not even a clue that their gut feeling is correct. And they deserve to know it--they who stood out in the freezing rain for 10 hours to vote, and those who got them out there, seeking redress, seeking expression of the will of the people.

I have such enormous admiration for what the people did that day--our collective citizenry--and such loathing for those who stole this huge victory for democracy away from them, from us.

It will come out! And the Karl Roves and the Swiftboat Liars will do their worst. But it won't matter, because the story is not for them or their supporters, it's for all those people--the majority--who voted for Kerry. They will understand it immediately. They are the same people who saw through all of Bush Inc.'s lies, and voted them out of office!

Those who have worked so hard, and done all this difficult analysis, and have hung in there, and provided forums and encouragement, you will be rewarded by the light in the eyes in those voters, and the great relief in their faces, when they realize they are not alone, that their instincts were correct, and that THEY are part of the marjority in a country that they will begin to recognize again as their own.

I have seen this light, and this relief. It's real. They know the truth already.