John Moltz Disclaimer: I’m told I’m somewhat disappointing in person.

Kerry leads move to filibuster Alito

Still some reason to like the guy (although I think it’s possible he simply thinks he won’t get enough Senators to go along UPDATE: Digby’s right. Enough carping when Democrats do something good. Go, John!).

John Kerry’s my hero, and has been for a while.

I don’t like to participate in the traditional Democratic ritual, when a candidate is nosed out in a close election, of declaring that said candidate “never had a chance” and “was a real loser.”

Perhaps that ritual is some sort of superstitious mumbo-jumbo designed to ward off bad juju, like the way some baseball fans always wear their lucky hat to every game. If so, it hasn’t been working very well.

It’s time to fight to protect this country and the Constitution from the monarchists. Even if we might get beat.

Time for some new rituals.

He tends to be too wordy for middle america.. but he does hit some good ones now and again:

“This is the choice for the Court now. I reject those notions that there ought to somehow be some political calculus about the future. This impact is going to be now. This choice is now. This ideological direction is defined now.

“This fight is not a fight for the short term. This is a fight over two very fundamentally different views about what defines us, what is appropriate in the relationship between government and citizen, and the right of our citizens to be free from unlawful government action. These are not just words. This is not something we just casually throw out there. ‘Unlawful government action’ is part of what motivated people to come here in the first place and to fight for what we love and cherish.