Look, I just have to ask:  How is it that you selected this candidate without knowing that he had absolutely nothing to run on, and I do mean nothing, except four months in Vietnam?  Didn?t it occur to you that you might want a candidate with at least some record of accomplishment over a twenty-year period of service in the Senate?

Back to this car analogy:  Please tell me that you would at least take a look under the hood before you buy a car.  Tell me that you would at least turn the key and start the engine to see how it sounds.  Does it purr or cough its way to life? This car won?t cruise, my friend.  It has an old motor that evidently couldn?t even pull its own weight 35 years ago!  Just since you?re convention they?ve issued so many revisions to the operating manual that you are having trouble keeping up.  All this, and the evil Bush yet to be officially nominated!

Now you?re finding out that the service records for your 2004 Kerry may have been altered!  Questions are being asked about that four-month period of heavy-duty operation decades ago.  Maybe your Kerry didn?t perform as well as you?ve been told! 

We?re friends, right?  So let?s cut to the chase.  You know you really didn?t want a 2004 Kerry in the first place.  You wanted a Hillary!  Just think about those sleek, curvy lines, that flashy grille, the soft upholstery.  What?s not to love? Come on and admit it.  That?s your real goal.  Hillary Clinton in the White House, a liberal nirvana.  You panicked, though, and bought the first shiny thing you saw on the showroom floor. 

Well, this isn?t the way to go about it, my friend.  If your dream version of America is Hillary in the White House, then beating Bush in 2004 is not going to move you closer to your goal.  It?s time for you to put the overpowering emotion of hatred aside and try to think a few years ahead.  If this 2004 Kerry of yours takes this race you?re probably going to be stuck with him for eight years.  During those eight years they?re going to be polishing up a 2012 Edwards to take his place.   All the while your Hillary is going to be collecting rust in the Senate. 

I?m going to suggest the unthinkable.  Look ahead!  Plan!  Set aside your desire for instant gratification to pursue your true dream!  Go ahead and let Bush have these next four years.  Spend that time getting your Hillary into racing form.  Who are the Republicans going to run in 2008, Cheney?  You?ll have the pole locked up! 

Hold on!  Was that a wink?  Am I missing something here?