Democracy in America is about to die because of JOHN KERRY!!

[ElementaryPenguin]

A golden opportunity to save his country was presented to John Kerry on election night, when he virtually had the world's spotlight upon him - and he was armed with the resources to launch a probe that would expose the obvious fact that the Republican Party had rigged the 2004 election through electronic voting/tabulation fraud and a voter suppression campaign that employed tactics from the Jim Crow era. Having full access to the exit poll data, Kerry knew all day long that he had handily won the election, and was working on his acceptance speech. He may have wondered if Bush (who was informed he had lost) was going to call him to concede.

But when the networks came on the air and began suggesting, then insisting that the exit polls were wrong (how could they have known this already) - John Kerry and his team knew better than any of us, that Karl Rove was in the process of stealing the election through fraud on an even much larger scale than the fraud they had stolen the 2000 election with. Kerry, as we all know, is a fighter - a decorated, bona-fide war hero and fearless prosecutor who, when he took on the BCCI scandal, arguably tackled bigger foes that the BFEE! And John Kerry loves this country he has served for so long - of this there can be no doubt. But he must have decided as some point that evening, that he had a better chance of saving his political career than he had saving or salvaging his stolen presidential victory. So he seems to have decided that rather than appearing as an Al Gore-esque "poor sport" and fighting - he would to let others take up this fight for him, reasoning that fraud of such a grand magnitude would most certainly be exposed in time. So, he held back most of his 17,000 lawyer force and most of his remaining money, and set his sights on "next time" - that next time being the 2008 race.

There are two major problems with Kerry's decision. First off, the people who have taken up the fight for Kerry don't have the kind of light on them that he had, and with our corporate controlled media, they clearly NEVER will. Because Kerry was the actual candidate (and the one the ACTUAL majority voted for) he is THE ONLY ONE the press could not have successfully ignored. Now, even the likes of high profile, long serving U.S. Congress members find themselves ignored, dismissed, and discredited with labels such as "dissidents," and lumped in with all the other conspiracy nuts and dreamers that are so prevalent in that shadowy world on the Internet.

The second, even bigger problem with Kerry's decision to wait for next time is THERE ISN'T GOING TO BE ANY NEXT TIME! This was it! They stole the election in 2000 and got away with it also! Remember?? THIS WAS "next time!" No Tom Delay-controlled Congress is going to impeach Bush, even if he's seen on live national TV murdering a defenseless child! Nor is our right-wing controlled Congress going to now pass legislation banning an electronic voting system that provides them with the ability to remain in power forevermore! This was it. And fate (or Karl Rove) put JOHN KERRY in this position - where his country needed him perhaps more than it's needed any American outside of Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. And how did our LEADER - our celebrated war hero respond? As a Kerry supporter and until now "true believer" I really hate to report that John Kerry appears to have gone AWOL. That is an apparent fact that I, for one, would NEVER, EVER have believed possible!