I am of the crowd who has echoed this sentiment:
I will say this: People all over the place are pissed that there is such silecne on these recounts from the DEMS. People think Kerry et al have simply moved on.
It pushed me to try to get people to collect any convincing evidence from a billion locations on the web for easy review and response. Fortunately, not only my effort has gone to that goal!
Next is enticing big guns to the battle and it's been in that effort I've learned a few hopeful things. Perhaps not most obvious but very important: 'memogate' and the Rovejob on CBS/Rather have not scarred fully. Imagine an avante garde with Dems on point being raped so effectively as occurred with the AWOL memos.
We'd be focussing on disbanding rather than reform in many threads here!
As to what IS happening, I'm privy to little but a couple of key exchanges assure me that Dems haven't 'just moved on'. A second-degree connection gave me first-party access to one big gun (think '527') who agreed that 'memogate' qualifies here. BUT, he ALSO assured that their powder is dry and the cavalry mounted to mobilize with first sighting of the 'whites of their eyes'.
On the other side, one who IS leading edge of the avante garde and to whom I've been trying to connect 'my big gun' assured me, well,
by PM: Thanks. Have done some of these conference calls already. We'll put the info into the right hands the moment the time is right.
Please pardon my oblique references here. I'm just an average joe with a sense of politics and the 'hair-standing-on-edge' feeling that these efforts MUST go right or W gets to be W_rong for another four years. I don't wanna screw that up with the little I DO know that may ultimately constitute absolutely nada in Machiavelli's scheming. I don't know, thus my vagueness.
But my side needs a little hope, I wanted to share reason for my own!
And there's this:
John Kerry was faced with three options. One, fight on publicly rather than conceding and put the nation into a media frenzied limbo. Two, concede and go on with his life, turning his back on his promise to his supporters to ensure that "every vote will be counted."
Most people are assuming that John Kerry opted for the second of these while John Edwards, his runningmate, opted for the first, and since Kerry was the big dog, he won out. But people who think this are thinking in Bush terms, all or nothing, either you are for the war or against it, that either Senator Kerry was for recounting the votes or he was against it.
The reality is, John Kerry has chosen a third, much smarter course - just as he said he would all along.
John Kerry realized that to launch a public campaign calling the vote into question would be disastrous. In fact, he likely realized he would we walking right into a Bush-set booby trap.
In particular, during our election coverage we talked about the pending battle of Fallujah, about the timing of it being an election ploy, about how it was following in the constant Bush pattern of creating a media event to sway the election, as he did last time by making the run up to the Iraq invasion come to a head exactly on election week.
Well, the battle in Fallujah began hitting the media hard in the week before the election, right on cue. Of course it was billed as the solution, the battle that - if you just keep Bush in office - will wipe out those insurgents and solve the problems over there. This was yet another obvious use of our nation's troops by President Bush as if they were campaign volunteers rather than non-partisan volunteers to defend our nation.
But Fallujah, it turns out, seems to be even more than that. Fallujah, in effect, was the get away car for an election heist...
Great read and additional reason for hope!