No Man's Candidate

Democrats have been biting their tongues for sometime now over the nomination of Kerry but that may be ending. Sen. Kerry, while rated one of the most liberal of the hundred has taken many positions that place him far from off from the average Democrat. Beyond his never once having caved to labor's isolationist schemes, Kerry's now well known flip-flopping has him facing the disgust of the anti-war Phish crowd. Whiskey Bar, a devout Bush bashing blog recently published a post that may signal the first cracks in the dam. Billmon, as the author has dubbed himself, writes acerbically of Kerry's "cowardice" and "shameless war whoring" before explaining his biggest grievance; the irony he perceives in a man who became famous protesting war who now as a senator votes to support it. In brutal honesty the author confesses "I guess irony is one of those things you can't afford to recognize about yourself if you want to be president. And I'll still vote for Kerry, even though I do recognize it. My reasons for supporting him have always been, and still are, independent of my feelings about him." Has Bush bashing gone so far as to bring men to vote for a candidate unto whom so much disgust is piled?

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