A flip, flop, a flippity flop
A couple weeks back I wrote something here to the effect that the idea of a Gore-Dean ticket was starting to look really good. Because they wouldn’t have the millstone of seemingly having voted for and then against going to war in Iraq. This essay in Time expands on part of that; it dosn’t include Gore but asks the question, What If Dean Were the Candidate? And comes to a similar conclusion to mine.
On the other hand (see how I flip-flop), Tapped counters that essay by arguing, “Kerry hasn’t attracted a reputation as a flip-flopper because he’s flopped more often than anyone else with a substantial record in public life; he got the reputation because he’s been the target of a massive propaganda effort to paint him as a flip-flopper.”
This is undeniably true. But as I’ve indicated before, I have a lot of trouble feeling sympathy for Kerry when it comes to attacks on his Iraq vote. He gave a ten-year-old brat a big stick, trusted him not to stir up a hornets nest, and when the brat did just that, pled innocence.
Nuh-uh. So far as I’m concerned, Kerry and Edwards and every single Senator who “voted to give The President the authority” shares responsibility for the terrible state of Iraq.
I’ll still vote for them, because, y’know…ABB. But I won’t be forgetting that.
Read both, make up your own mind.
