Here is what a tried and true democrat wants to happen in this election:
(please note: I am a registered republican, so this isn't me. Although I do not vote exclusively republican)
No one in their right mind who is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat wants John Kerry to win this election.
no way. no how.
Why you ask??
Here's your answer:
Ready??
Oh, You're going to love this.
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She is the reason why no Democrat really wants John Kerry to win. Why, you ask? Its simple.
Mrs. clinton wasn't deemed ready enough at this point in her political career to put her hat in the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination, and if she did so, and lost in the primary, then her poitical career would have been in serious jeopardy.
I know, what does this have to do with john Kerry.
Well, most democrat insiders want Hillary clinton to be the candidate in 2008, and the only way that can realistically happen is how?
If John Kerry loses the 2004 election.
there is no way on God's green earth that Mrs. clinton can run for that ticket in 2008. Not that she wouldn't win, but it would be the biggest embarassment in the Democrat party since Jimmy Carter if she were to win the nomination for the Democratic ticket while they had a Democrat in the White House.
See the logic?
Sure, the anti-Bush establishment would take Paris Hilton over Bush right now, but Democrats in general, and I've spoken to a whole bunch lately, including my wife's cousin who happens to be a Democratic member of the House of representatives, have stated that they are hoping for Hillary in 2008.