Heaneyland!

John Kerry is a [word which I got tired of Freeper types doing Google searches for and thus finding this page]

Well, but why single out John Kerry? Why not John Edwards, too? And most of the other Democratic nominees? I mean, they all piled on Howard Dean for his ostensibly controversial "Confederate flag" comment. (Try this link if you're not registered at the New York Times.) And right on to Dean for not being a wuss and sticking to his guns, instead of trotting out the usual pro forma mea culpas. (Ooh, aren't I the smart one, with my two Latin phrases in a row.)

But that's old news. Now I have a new reason to be pissed off at (most of) the other Democratic nominees, and that's their entirely predictable reaction to Howard Dean's decision to opt out of public financing. I mean, getting all "Dean abandoned his earlier pledge never to bypass the public financing system" (from Lieberman, who can drop out of this race any time he wants) conveniently ignores that Dean's supporters voted on whether this was something he should do or not, and that Dean wasn't the guy who screwed the system up by opting out in the first place -- that would be Bush, who is the guy we're all trying to beat, remember? I would like every candidate to repeat after me: "It doesn't matter if I'm nominated; it only matters that Bush loses."

Oh, but John Kerry. "It's disappointing that Howard Dean so conveniently abandoned a long-held position of principle out of mere political expediency," he says. I guess Kerry would know about that, what with voting yes on going to war with Iraq and then acting like he knew all along it was a bad idea. Hey, Kerry, maybe if you "preferred that the United States pursue more diplomacy before the war", you should have waited until that happened before voting to give a crazy man a loaded gun.

It's also galling that Kerry is taking another desperate opportunity to bring Dean down over the campaign finance thing when he's considering doing the same thing himself. Come on, man. You've run for president plenty of times. Don't you think if anyone was actually the least bit enthused about you as a presidential candidate, you would have been nominated by now?