Excactly, and when you think about it,
If this one couldn't get elected what makes you think this one can?
Posted on 03/10/2004 4:23:53 PM PST by MegaSilver
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic White House candidate John Kerry slammed his Republican critics as "crooked" liars on Wednesday and met former rival Howard Dean to discuss working together to beat President Bush in November.
Kerry and Dean, bitter rivals in the Democratic primaries, met for an hour in Washington after Kerry returned from Illinois, where he criticized Bush's economic record and renewed his promise to repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and boost tax relief for the middle class.
Kerry told a worker in Chicago that he was ready to fight back against his Republican foes, adding in an exchange picked up by television and radio microphones that "these guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen."
Spokesman David Wade said Kerry was referring to "the Republican attack machine" and not specifically to Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney, although he said Bush had "a pattern of standing by while other people ... do his dirty work for him."
Republicans responded quickly, with Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt charging Kerry had run a "a relentlessly negative campaign from the very beginning and this comment is completely consistent with that."
Speaking to the AFL-CIO labor federation's winter meeting in Florida by satellite from a Chicago factory, Kerry renewed his promise to repeal tax breaks only for those earning more than $200,000 a year. He said he supported targeted tax breaks for the middle class for college, education and heath care.
He criticized Bush for the loss of nearly 3 million manufacturing jobs on his watch and said working Americans were getting "the short end of the stick."
"It must be getting lonely for George Bush. It seems he's the last person in America who actually believes his failed policies will ever work," Kerry told the executive council of the umbrella labor group of more than 60 unions representing 13 million workers.
DEAN MEETING CALLED CORDIAL
After returning to Washington, Kerry embraced Dean as they met in the hallways of Kerry's new downtown Washington headquarters. Aides said the meeting was cordial and productive, with a formal endorsement expected to come within the next few weeks.
"It went very well," Dean told reporters as he left the meeting, but he declined to take questions.
The two men had a bitter primary rivalry, with Dean criticizing Kerry as "the handmaiden of special interests" and saying he belonged to "the corrupt political culture in Washington." But the former Vermont governor has promised to do what he can to support Kerry. "Campaigns are campaigns, but when they're over it's important that we unify and that's what today's meeting was about," Dean spokesman Jay Carson said.
"It was a long discussion of what Gov. Dean can do with his organization to ensure that John Kerry beats George Bush in November," he said. "They're building a very strong relationship."
Dean is likely to make some appearances on Kerry's behalf, and Kerry hopes his support will help win over Dean backers who had not been involved in politics before his campaign.
Dean will not, however, turn over his prized e-mail list of a half million supporters who helped him raise more than $40 million and break all party fund-raising records, political sources said. He is more likely to issue some fund-raising appeals to his supporters under his own name.
After his meeting with Dean, Kerry went to Democratic National Committee headquarters to meet with party chief Terry McAuliffe.
Kerry, moving to unify the party and build up his donor base ahead of the match-up with Bush, also will meet with former rival John Edwards and some of Edwards' top contributors on Thursday. He will spend the morning meeting on Capitol Hill with lawmakers and Democratic colleagues in the Senate.
Marxists and/or Communists works too :-)
This proves what I suspected all along. Democrats images don't show up in mirrors!
I can't believe our good fortune! Is JFK on secretly on our side? This might turn out to be everything we were hoping for with Dean.
Go Kerry! Don't stop talking now.
This guy is so weird, that by the time he's done he's going to be snorting nitrous and saying don't you effin look at me.
He has all the personal appeal of the finger cot guy in the movie Mona Lisa.
And John Effin Gigolo knows precisely what a million is, too.
He learned by counting Teeraysa's 550 Mil, over and over and over.
I look in the mirror and see a pie faced dude minding his own pathetic business. Imagine being Kerry. You look like Hermann Goering in full makeup, but you really want to be Joel Gray issuing orders to a tableau created by Helmut Newton. Theresa is so tired. She's hoping that if the potential to really crank up the nuttiness is realised, she may regain her early fiftires.
Excactly, and when you think about it,
Somewhere along the line, he is going to get in trouble with his big mouth.
F@*% nitrous! Amyl nitrate!
I have to hope it's BEFORE the election, not AFTER.
The prospect of a Kerry administration is to terrible to imagine.
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