The Wrong Democrat?

John Kerry was not evangelically religious enough or perceived as a consistent enough leader to win the popular vote.

To be a sincere Catholic who believes that the moral teachings of his Church should, in accordance with the US Constitution, be kept separate from the governance of the United States was not even good enough for Catholic voters to choose Kerry over Bush.

Though only a minority of the electorate believes Bush is leading the country in the right way, and only a minority agrees the War in Iraq was the right decision and is being conducted properly, a majority agrees we should stay the course with the same skipper who got us off course.

Who could the Democrats have run that would have been a better challenger - someone openly religious with an unwavering, simplistic and almost flippant approach to the issues? Think of all those who ran in the primaries and only one candidate clearly meets these criteria - the Reverend Al Sharpton. When you are done laughing, think again - only this time close your eyes and imagine Sharpton as being a white man from the South, and it is not so funny.