Posted on 10/30/2006 5:05:02 AM PST by bitt
NEWTOWN, Pa. -- The military record of a Democratic House candidate was under attack. So, Senator John F. Kerry ventured to the Philadelphia suburbs last week to defend Patrick Murphy -- and deliver the kind of speech the senator never quite gave when his own wartime service was called into question in 2004.
"Attacking Patrick Murphy for his service is a little bit like Jessica Simpson attacking Albert Einstein's IQ," the Massachusetts Democrat proclaimed Thursday at a chilly outdoor rally at Bucks County Community College.
"A lot of these people in the GOP, the Republican Party -- they think somehow that they served because they played with GI dolls when they were little," Kerry said. "The guys who really served understand what it means, and we've had enough of these lies."
Many Democrats remain angry with Kerry over his failure to more aggressively combat Republican smears in 2004. Efforts to tar Kerry generated a new term for political hatchet-jobs -- "swift-boating" -- and Kerry's slow response to the attacks ranks alongside his muddled position on the war in Iraq on Democrats' list of complaints about the campaign.
Now, Kerry is making it a personal mission to defend veterans running as Democrats in this year's congressional elections from Republican attacks. Should he run for president again in 2008, his efforts on behalf of veterans could leave him with a corps of fiercely loyal supporters in Congress, and could help erase memories of the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" attacks that he acknowledges he let stand for too long.
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"I still have absolutely no idea why any veteran would run as a Democrat.
Immunity."
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Actually he's signed 3 of them. Each designating a single friendly reporter as being the only person his records were releasable to.
Getting the facts straight is important. It's actually even more telling that he refuses to open the records up to the public, to be scrutinized by friend and foe alike. Coward that he is, he has only allowed friends to have access to the records.
Perhaps one of those who prosecute our troops for being overzealous in killing the enemy?
"that the Bush administration was simply unwilling to acknowledge the mistakes that have been made since the 2003 invasion"
We have seen that when the POTUS "admits" to error, the dems climb all over it as incompetance.
There is no dealing with dems just like there is no dealing with terrorists.
Look at what Kennedy said and did after the Education Bill was passed and funded.
That's IT!
ROTFLOL!
Ever the Punkin Head...;o)
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