Posted on 01/30/2005 11:40:13 AM PST by CyberAnt
Billionaire investor George Soros, the biggest financial contributor to the failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush in November's election, said Democratic challenger John Kerry was a flawed candidate.
Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, spent $26 million in last year's campaign that he said was undermined by the candidate he supported.
"Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative," Soros, 74, said yesterday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "That had a lot to do with Bush being re-elected."
The comments by the Hungarian-born Soros marked his sharpest criticism of Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran who later spoke against the war and focused his campaign against Bush on the war in Iraq. Republicans gained four seats in the Senate, including the defeat of the Senate's highest-ranking Democrat, Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Republicans have 55 seats in the 100-seat chamber.
The Kerry campaign "tried to emphasize his role as a Vietnam War hero and downplay his role as an anti-Vietnam War hero, which he was", said Soros. "Had he admitted, owned up to it, I think actually the outcome could have been different."
Alternative Needed
Soros said he also now questions "what the Democratic party stands for." Democrats need to counter "a very effective conservative message machine", he said. "There really needs to be an alternative."
Still, Soros said the money he spent was worthwhile, and that he will remain active in U.S. politics.
"I don't feel it's an investment that's gone bad, because when you stand up for principles you have to do it whether you win or lose," Soros said. "I'm distressed that Bush was re-elected, but I don't feel that I wasted my money."
Soros donated millions to the Media Fund, a group that ...
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This statement defies logic - first he says "America is an open society, the most successful, the most powerful in the world" - but then he says we "don't understand the first principle of an open society".
HUH ..?? Then how did we get to be the most successful and the most powerful ..?? Hmmmmm??
Typical liberals - they don't understand America and it's freedom path - therefore .. they must always put us down. Liberals = pitiful little people.
Soros is a certified nut case, just like Fats Kennedy, Boxer, and the rest of the Rat society.
heh heh heh
How can we be an open society if we don't understand the first principle of an open society? And who entrusted Soros with the job of enumerating the foundations of a free society?
What a nutjob.
WTF?
Soros " did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative " financing nor candidate.
I'm really tired of seeing all the "Blame Kerry" for the democrats loss. It's amazing how fascist-minded people turn on eachother as soon as they face a setback. It wasn't Kerry that was the problem... it was his leftist ideas. I think we may start to head in the direction of a 2 party system... One Conservative... One more Libertarian. I really don't see what the left has to offer anymore.
So Soros can buy himself a new candidate next time. Trouble is, he has only Democrats to choose from, none of whom have a coherent message.
It is refreshing, though, to hear a Dem supporter actually blaming Kerry's loss on Kerry's failings. The MSM has yet to recognize the truth of that. American's just didn't like or trust their boy. And still don't.
That makes me HAPPY !!!
We should be willing to be honest. Bush's victory over Kerry was not spectacular. In fact is was a narrow victory. Bush won by 50.8% to 48.3%, with an electoral college victory of 286 to 252.
As much as I dislike Soros, he was dead on the money when he said, ""Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative." The fact that a 48% supported a candidate as flawed as Kerry, who couldn't talk about anything without twisting himself into a pretzel and was so stiff he creaked when he walked, shows weakness on Bush's part. Repuiblicans need to rethink their positions on immigration, trade, and entitlement spending.
As for the Congressional gains, it just proves that voters who vote Republican for President are less willing to support candidates who would oppose the President they support. 'Rat candidates in Red states are no longer able to create the illusion of distance between themselves and their parties.
Soros is making that classic mistake of confusing his brains with his bucks.
Kerry was a flawed candidate?
I could have told him that for a lot less than $26 million.
Bump
Sorass may be partly right here,what he fails to understand is that it was`nt the man Kerry himself,it was the vacant philosophy that he stands for.
So, George Soros thinks we're stupid because we opposed his army of drooling, Marxist half-wits who say that we're wrong.
hint: some can be found at the UN
But here's what I'd like to know: Chinese gov't/military money was taken by clinton (illegal); and beside foreign money (Iran for one) put into kerry campaign - Soros is not a US citizen.
Is it legal for foreign nationals to put millions into a US candidates campaign and to actively support/campaign for?
It doesn't sound like something that should be legal. Sounds like interference from foreign entities into the internal and SOVEREIGN affairs of another nation?
Oh yeah, that would have been a bit hit.
Come on, all that money and he comes up with this? Don't get me wrong, I hope he stays this misconnected.
The dogs of defeat now growl at each other over the dead carcass of the democrapic party...sublime!
"I really don't see what the left has to offer anymore."
Hey, they make excellent comic material.
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