Posted on 04/07/2019 12:01:54 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and governor, was always one of my favorite politicians in part because his politics weren’t perfectly polished. Among other free-wheeling moments, he called fellow Democrat Bill Clinton an “uncommonly good liar” and said a requirement for becoming president is that you must “want it more than life itself.”
Kerrey moved on to academia and now to an investment bank, but hasn’t lost the willingness to break ranks with his party. The habit surfaces in a withering criticism of current Democrats, where he says they are suffering from two major “delusions.”
“The first,” he writes in an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald, “is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.”
He cites as examples the foolish push for the Green New Deal, wealth taxes and Medicare-for-all, all of which are being embraced by 2020 candidates.
The Dems’ second delusion, he says, “is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016.” He goes on to say there is no reason to think the full report will change the finding that Trump is an innocent man.
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Well he’s not in politics anymore so thats your answer.
They don’t, if they want a political career!
The Regressive Socialist ‘RATS *are* delusional — what is upsetting Kerrey is that they are exposing their delusions to the American public. The only way Regressive Socialist ‘RATS win is to conceal who they are and pretend to be something else.
This is a man who values truth and fact. He could be president.
...This is a man who values truth and fact. He could be president.
Sign him up, after Trump of course
And that applies to the Regressive Socialist ‘RATS' who have been elected into the Republican party. - Tom
This Kerrey served in Vietnam and was awarded a Medal of Honor.
He’s 75.
Good one
I remember him. He visited Colorado State University when I was a student. Must've been around early '92 or so when he was on the campaign trail. Not a big crowd but he hung out and shook hands with everyone.
I was young and excited. I'd never met an actual presidential candidate before!
We would have been much better off if he had been elected rather than Slick Willy.
...He’s 75.
Good, he’ll be 81 then
I believe he’s also a war criminal by his own admission.
Truth not being a particular concern or value to the Left will crush him for speaking it.
For his actions on an island where I lived and worked 15 months in the Air Force. Call sign was Portcall and thus, I was Portcall 24. No chair force there. Cold showers, rocket attacks and flak vests for those in my unit.
Sheesh, warn a guy. And I’m out of eye bleach at the moment.
After such a stellar start in life, how can one account for his becoming a demonrat?
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