Enough time has been spent on this matter. It's time for Kerry to take matters into his own hands. The essence of the gist of the pith, along with a prediction for the future, is below the fold.
Kerry should commit ritual sepiku on the steps of the Capitol, after writing a long abject apology in his own blood that admits:
1. He shouldn't have let Cardinal Ratzenger order bishops and priests all over the country to tell their Catholic parishoners that a vote for Kerry was a sin. Three million fewer Catholics voted for Kerry than had voted for Gore. Bush's margin of victory was three million, more or less.
It was all Kerry's fault.
2. He shouldn't have let the MSM show uncritical replays of Bush's staged town meetings, in which the President was bathed in adulation and respect from invited audiences, while they produced endless analytical pieces on "troubles in the Kerry campaign" and downplayed the massive, open rallies held for Kerry and Edwards.
That was all Kerry's fault. He doesn't deserve to live.
3. The New York Times shouldn't have spiked a story exposing "honest" George Bush's use of an illegal transmitter during the debates in which Kerry smoked his ass anyway. CBS News shouldn't have spiked Ed Bradley's 60 Minutes piece on Iraq intelligence dishonesty. Both pieces would have undermined a key element of Bush's campaign, and it's Kerry's fault they were killed.
Time for him to admit his shame and end it at the same time.
4. Once the election was over, he shouldn't have done anything positive, because each time he did, it just looked like he was angling for political capital.
Take up the sword, Senator. Insert it, blade facing up, just above the navel and jerk upward and then to the right. Death should come relatively soon.
Upon certification of death, the body should remain on the Capitol steps, so various Kossacks can walk by and pay their respects by spitting, sneering, jeering, and pinning messages riddled with scorn to the lapels of his elitist expensive suit.
After a ten day period of scorning, the body will be removed to Boston and a funeral held, complete with coverage and smirking commentary by Fox News, in which Sean Hannity repeatedly asks if Kerry is being buried in a pair of flip-flops, and Mara Liasson avers that while perhaps in the heat of the campaign there was some exaggeration of the flip-flop label, it was in fact substantially true and so there is a good chance that the corpse has been shod in flip-flops by the mortician.
Who just happened to have a French last name.
Here at Kos a series of threads will be posted. One side will express satisfaction at the honorable course the Senator took in paying for his sins against dKos; the other side will eulogize Kerry for his actions after his return from the Vietnam War.
Some time later there will be periodic reconsiderations in which a degree of unnecessary harshness towards the late Senator is admitted. In time, tentative consensus is reached regarding the late Senator's status as nearly rivalling that of Al Gore.
Meanwhile, a feverish search for the next goat will be conducted.