Time to Unsubscribe
10 January 2008 11:13 am by Taylor Marsh
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John Kerry has endorsed Barack Obama. Sorry, but this
is just classless. John Kerry didn’t even tell Edwards he was going to endorse
Obama. Is all manner of, well, manners ignored now? I didn’t understand why
Gore didn’t tell Lieberman first either and I’m no fan of Joe, believe me. Of course, there is no rule on this,
but when you go through the fire of a presidential campaign, it isn’t a small
event you’re united in. Evidently Kerry tried to reach him but blah-blah-blah.
Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., was in Charleston, SC, this morning when
an aide brought word: the Associated Press was reporting that then-VP-nominee
Edwards’ 2004 running mate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was endorsing one of
Edwards’ chief rivals in the presidential contest, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois.And this was how Edwards was finding out: through the media. Not by Kerry
himself. … ..… .. Edwards supporters, meanwhile, thought the Kerry no-call particularly
rude. They argued that South Carolina was a state that embodied Kerry’s failures
in many ways: Having kicked off his presidential race in the Palmetto State,
he went on to lose it handily to Edwards in the 2004 Democratic primary and
even more handily to President Bush in the general election.
I’ve had the pleasure of talking to John Kerry and dealt closely with
his team before the 2006 elections. He is a true American patriot. So I don’t say this lightly. It also doesn’t
have anything to do with Kerry not endorsing Hillary Clinton. But frankly, his nod is the last
thing she needs.
“The haughty John Kerry has endorsed Barack Obama. In South Carolina?
… He’s just an idiot.” – Rush Limbaugh (today on his show)
Rush is an incoherent bloviating gasbag. Alert the media.
But these establishment endorsements are just silly, even insulting. It’s long past time to begin
unsubscribing from all of these DC Democrats who use their mailing lists to
push the Democratic faithful into thinking that their opinion is more important
than what the people think. These mailing lists are also the remnants of the
big old boy network that gang up on candidates The Establishment has decided
aren’t passing muster. John Edwards comes to mind.
Edwards has a passionate agenda. He deserved better than this from John Kerry.
Most of us ignore these mailers. Instead, it’s time to start unsubscribing
and taking the power away from people like John Kerry who wield it through
his mailing list from the last presidential election.
Message sent, received, and totally rejected.
UPDATE II: Kerry doesn’t want a certain female to win the nomination. Via the LV Sun:
But what about Clinton’s argument that talking change is different than producing change? Listen to this, dear Flashees:
“He produced one of the most significant ethics reform bills we passed. He has been a legislator longer than Hillary Clinton.” And then this zinger: “Health care didn’t pass in 1994 if I recall.”
I would love to be on the Senate floor when they all get back.
UPDATE: This is just too priceless not to share. From reader PamelaB on Kerry endorsing Obama.:
“Senator ‘I was for it before I was against it’ just endorsed Senator ‘I was against it before I funded it.”
Ouch.
