While visualizing landslide and doing my bit to bring it about, I was prepared for Republican dirty tricks. I was not prepared, especially after advising so many people to send their checks to GELAC, for Kerry to concede the election as if the number of provisional votes was the only issue.
As if Bev Harris and Prof. David Dill and others had not demonstrated how easily the voting machines and the tabulating process could be corrupted. Had been corrupted. As if they hadn't demonstrated that the central tabulators, located in the county offices, could not be hacked through the modems.
As if Diebold hadn't promised to deliver Ohio. As if the Republican campaign hadn't been one lie after another and could somehow be trusted now.
I do not trust that we were beat. I suspect we were robbed. It is an educated suspicion on my part. The ten day counting period would have given all those lawyers funded by GELAC, time to investigate. Time to hear from the legions of 527 and party volunteers who are reporting in from the field. Time to build a case; to prove fraud. That's what John Kerry, and presumably the DNC, just gave away. (I gather there were no computer wizards in the mix, or they were sidelined by the pros.) In giving it away, they denied me and others like me, the opportunity to trust that the election was indeed, fair.
Concession will not unite the country. John Kerry's statesmen-like words will not bridge the partisan divide. The unholy Bush alliance does not want to bridge the divide. They are crushing the Republic, coming after it and us the way they went after Clinton. This "concession" feels more like appeasement. I've read enough history to understand appeasement on the inter and intra national level. I have enough direct experience to understand appeasement on the personal level. Appeasing a bully does not convert the bully. We are in for a dark time.
In the end I feel betrayed. By the Democratic Party.