I'm sorry John Kerry but I can't stand with you on this one

I just received an email from John Kerry in which he states he is not going to vote for Judge Alito to be confirmed, in it he asks:

To join this fight, please sign our letter. When I go down to the Senate floor to speak out against Judge Alito, I'll enter your name in opposition to Alito into the Congressional Record as well. And I'll show my Senate colleagues that as far as the American people are concerned, this is not some inside the beltway conversation; this is a landmark struggle for the future of our nation.

I'm sorry Senator Kerry, but when America decided to make you the candidate to run against George Bush, you lost. The president has the right to nominate qualified candidates and the Senate's role is advise and consent. Alito is conservative, he is pretty much what was expected given President Bush's statements on who he would nominate. However, Alito is a well qualified judge and despite memo's written back in 1985 and before, I watched the hearings in full. Almost every single moment that was televised. I watched almost all of the John Roberts hearings as well, while Roberts is more charsimatic than Alito, Alito answered more questions and was more direct than Roberts. There was nothing that was discovered that implies that Alito would be a bad jugdge, it confirmed what most of us already knew. He's a conservative.....

Let's say you had won the presidency. Would you want the Republicans doing to your nominees what your party is doing? I think not, there was a huge outcry over the way a Republican held Senate did not give nominees even a chance to get out of committee. That should be noted, however, did President Clinton nominate candidates that the Republicans "loved"? Of course not. You do have the right to vote as you choose, you are not my State Senator so I have very little impact on your decision. However I will tell you that by changing the process and making it even more political it will affect your party when a Democrat is president. Making this about memo's written over 20 years ago, misconstruing court decisions and implying that Alito will somehow make abortion illegal; changing what used to be about qualifications and is realistically more about creating sound bites and playing politics is not a positive direction. Unless there is a major change in attitude in Washington, this will "return to haunt" Democrats. I hope when that day comes, I don't receive an email from you decrying how unfair the Republicans are being to "your" President's nominees....

I hope you take responsiblity for your part in helping to change the process.