New rule for all Democrats: No more apologies! We don't apologize for ANYTHING, EVER AGAIN.
With a national leadership like this, we deserve to lose next week. I am so angry at John Kerry this morning that I was on the verge of spitting at a newspaper box on my way to work. No, it wasn't for some stupid comment about our troops that he made, it was because I was forced to read headlines like this: "Kerry Offers Apology".
God damn it! Stop apologizing!! We have nothing to be sorry for.
Beyond the fact that this extends a news story for one more cycle, yet again such apologies present that classic bullshit stereotype of the weak, effete liberal unwilling to stick up for himself. Liberals have got to learn to convey strength again, and that means never saying you're sorry. Push through, yell back and then just change the subject if you have to. Don't apologize.
God knows they never do. Republicans will destroy the environment, get us trapped in a military quagmire, get indicted on corruption charges, make fun of a man with parkinsons, put mercury in our drinking water, drive over our grandmother, shoot a puppy and burn down an orphanage without even once considering ever offering an apology.
And before you give me that "Well that's what makes us different" nonsense, remember no, that's not what makes us different. The key thing that makes us different is that we lose elections and they win.