LadyJean and Dianavan,

Yes and yes. Sad but true. I'll vote for Kerry this time if need be, and see if he win, and if he can accomplish more as president than as a Senator. But I won't be holding my breath.

And Bartholomew, Politics may be the art of the possible, but when Democrats are told over and over by a group of pundits and party insiders they trust that their hopes are NOT possible, that their only option is to vote for someone they don't like, even when that isn't true and it isn't even wise for their party, then "the possible" has been changed into "the will of the powerful."

Politics is ALSO the will of powerful imposed on the rest.

That isn't supposed to be what politics is in a democratic republic, though.