Two interesting things in my mailbox today. One, a letter from John Kerry to his supporters. It contains this tidbit:
That was followed by a ten-day old, but still eye-opening article from The Moderate Independent which makes the case that Kerry has not given up the fight for the election. This despite the fact that we have yet to see evidence that Kerry has lifted a finger in the recount effort. Still, if you haven’t seen it, you may find some hope in it (only to have that hope cruelly crushed in January, I’m sure). Here’s an excerpt:
Flash forward to today. Following the election, there was a problem apparent. The exit polling didn’t match the ballot count, and many reasons for that began to become apparent.
John Kerry was faced with three options. One, fight on publicly rather than conceding and put the nation into a media frenzied limbo. Two, concede and go on with his life, turning his back on his promise to his supporters to ensure that “every vote will be counted.”
Most people are assuming that John Kerry opted for the second of these while John Edwards, his runningmate, opted for the first, and since Kerry was the big dog, he won out. But people who think this are thinking in Bush terms, all or nothing, either you are for the war or against it, that either Senator Kerry was for recounting the votes or he was against it.
The reality is, John Kerry has chosen a third, much smarter course – just as he said he would all along.
I’m not sure what to make of this. The author, Betsy R. Vasquez, verges on fan fiction as she portrays Kerry as a mensa-level super-sleuth who has lulled GOP leaders to sleep in order to mastermind their undoing. While Vasquez has a good point about the timing of the Fallujah incursion, her article just seems too good to be true. But we can all dream, can’t we?
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