Aide: Kerry will vote AGAINST marriage amendment

Dayside with Linda Vester (Fox) | 2/24/04

[airstrike]

Kerry just wants to keep his options open. He doesn't want the amendment in case he runs out of wealthy women and has to look elsewhere.

[Dog]

BINGO!!!!!

You figured it out.....he just wiffed at the fastball...

[tomahawk]

Excellent.

Kerry is AWOL on the most important institution for humanity.

[Tricorn]

Whenever liberals are forced to fess up to what they really believe, that's good for us!

[prairiebreeze]

Yes, I think that's precisely what he's doing.

Prairie

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

So far.

Bush 1 Kerry 0

Earlier both sides failed to score on the military service issue.

[yonif]

Statement from John Kerry on Bush Constitutional Amendment


February 24, 2004

For Immediate Release


“I believe President Bush is wrong. All Americans should be concerned when a President who is in political trouble tries to tamper with the Constitution of the United States at the start of his reelection campaign.

“This President can’t talk about jobs. He can’t talk about health care. He can’t talk about a foreign policy, which has driven away allies and weakened the United States, so he is looking for a wedge issue to divide the American people.
“While I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, for 200 years, this has been a state issue. I oppose this election year effort to amend the Constitution in an area that each state can adequately address, and I will vote against such an amendment if it comes to the Senate floor.

“I believe the best way to protect gays and lesbians is through civil unions. I believe the issue of marriage should be left to the states, and that the President of the United States should be addressing the central challenges where he has failed – jobs, health care, and our leadership in the world rather than once again seeking to drive a wedge by toying with the United States Constitution for political purposes.”

[BulletBobCo]

Kerry just wants to keeps his options open if Teresa dumps him.

[BulletBobCo]

keeps=keep

[concerned about politics]

Senator Kerry will vote AGAINST a constitutional amendment defining marriage, if such a bill comes to the floor of the Senate.

Good. People with children vote, and they're paying attention this time.

Bush/Republican landslide in 2004!

[Shadowfax]

This just in - John Kerry slits own throat.

[hershey]

Howie Carr on his WRKO radio show said yesterday that Kerry's 'explained' his seemingly flipflop votes by lying and saying some nameless senate intern inserted unpopular positions or comments purportedly made by by him into the record without his permission. He's busily oozing away from everything he ever said or did. Can we all spell lying hypocrite?

[summer]

Kerry is about to lose a lot of moderate voters who will go with GW on this issue. Also, I thought GW was right on the money last night, in his comments about a "senator from MA" that illustrated the punch line of this cartoon (which I think correctly defines Kerry):

[section9]

Outstanding.

Bush will get the backing of a surprising number of people on this, but the Amendment will not pass determined Democratic Opposition in the Senate.

However, it will be a wedge issue.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[GraceCoolidge]

Howie Carr on his WRKO radio show said yesterday that Kerry's 'explained' his seemingly flipflop votes by lying and saying some nameless senate intern inserted unpopular positions or comments purportedly made by by him into the record without his permission. He's busily oozing away from everything he ever said or did.

Maybe he's going to say Manuel Miranda did it?

[international american]

Ha!! Kerry just put his foot in it.

[StopThePress]

DU and Yahoo liberals are going absolutely balistic today. Pretty much the same reaction as the capture of Saddam. You know you've done good when you ticked off the radical left.

[carton253]

I don't believe the 50/50 split in the polls. I have a hard time believing that the average American even knows about constitutional amendments.

[ShandaLear]

"Not really news, as Kerry has voted against traditional definition of marriage every chance he bothered to vote. Kerry is very pro-gay marriage, but is too afraid to say so publicly. Kerry will do his best to lie and try to spin it he is just against a Constitutional amendment, but that flies in the face of his past record."

Kerry has an excise for everything he does. He's about as mature as a teenager in the throws of puberty.

[mwl1]

People will accept Kerry's explanation at face value, unless and until we point out his vote against the Defense of Marriage Act and/or explain the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution to the uneducated masses.

If we can make those connections, we close the sale... and Kerry becomes a whif of noxious RAT gas in November.