The going gets creepy

The American Spectator ^ | 3/15/2004

[Utah Girl]

John Kerry's presidential campaign reached out Monday morning to Spain's prime minister-elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, requesting the opportunity for the two men to meet.

Kerry, who has a vacation planned in the coming weeks, is said to be eager to travel and to meet some of the world leaders he claims support him.

"You're going to see him meet with some of the people he has built relationships with over the years," says a Kerry adviser in Washington. "This is a man who has always cared about international relations, and he knows some of these leaders better than the president does. The fact is many of the leaders of other countries in Europe, Asia, South and Central America, do not like our president. There is more of a cultural and intellectual affinity with Senator Kerry, and the American public is just beginning to see it."

Actually, what they were seeing was a candidate running away from yet another exaggeration of his record. Kerry over the weekend denied that he ever said that he had "met" foreign leaders who said they wanted him to win the presidency. Instead, he claimed he "spoke" to leaders. He refused to give any names, and made a fool of himself in front of an audience in Pennsylvania when he bullied a Republican the audience for even asking him about it.

Then, in a TV interview for a Florida TV station, Kerry, attempting to woo Cuban American voters there, said, "I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world. And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him."

In fact, Kerry voted against it.

Advisers scrambled to defend Kerry's remarks, except that Kerry prior to the interview didn't even know how he voted on the issue. Instead, he used a one-sheet briefing document to bring him up to speed on his own record on Cuba.

"We're still working some of the kinks out of the campaign," says the Kerry adviser in Washington. "It's when he gets a little desperate, and wants to make a good impression that we end up with these gaffes. We're working on it."



THE NEW LUBYANKA
Chairman Terry McAuliffe will cut the ribbon next week on the DNC's new renovated and expanded office space in Washington, D.C. The space, which cost the DNC more than $25 million (costs would have been more, but about 40 percent of the work was performed by nonunion labor), features new radio and TV studios to further the party's propaganda efforts.

McAuliffe would like to have the new building bear his name, but donors and the DNC board have balked at that move until after seeing what happens in the 2004 election.

"Terry did great things for Bill Clinton, but he hasn't won a thing for the party since becoming chairman," says a DNC donor from Ohio. "He's got one last shot."

[Utah Girl]

It's Gore redux. Kerry is so desperate to be president, he'll do and say anything.

[Qwinn]

"It's Gore redux."

I don't know what you could possibly be referring to. I mean, we all know that Al Gore Sr. -did- really vote for the Civil Rights Act. Right? Right?

I strongly hope no one actually needs a sarcasm tag for that one, but just in case... /dripping sarcasm

Qwinn

[Yardstick]

There is more of a cultural and intellectual affinity with Senator Kerry,

Gag me with an spoon. So intellectual, these Democrat morons.

[zarf]

Kerry is simply a lousy tactical politico. Very sloppy and undisciplined plus his choice of attack strategies leaves alot to be desired.

I don't think it was an accident that his campaign was a disaster before the press turned on Dean and the DNC powers that be anointed him as the "most electable" candidate.

[zip]

ping

[geopyg]

"Gag me with an spoon."

It'll have to be a silver spoon.

[NYCVirago]

Kerry, who has a vacation planned in the coming weeks, is said to be eager to travel and to meet some of the world leaders he claims support him.

So, instead of taking his vacation in the good old USA, and spending his money here, he's going to vacation/campaign in Europe? Nothing says "man of the people" like going to France!

[Paleo Conservative]

Kerry is simply a lousy tactical politico. Very sloppy and undisciplined plus his choice of attack strategies leaves alot to be desired.

That's because all his political experience is from running in Massachusetts. Winning DemocRAT primaries there requires pandering to the whacko academic left in Cambridge.

[texasflower]

Right. The country (USA) that single handedly cut France's tourism by 60%, costing France billions of dollars and boycotted almost every single French product because they betrayed us is going to run to vote for Kerry because "international leaders" want him?

Sure. We didn't even want French wine. Why would we want HIM?

[texasflower]

Advisers scrambled to defend Kerry's remarks, except that Kerry prior to the interview didn't even know how he voted on the issue

Gosh. I LOVE that quality in a leader. /sarcasm.

The dopey fool doesn't care about any issue enough to remember how he voted. Idiot

[Just Lori]

You're going to see him meet with some of the people he has built relationships with over the years," says a Kerry adviser in Washington.

I simply cannot WAIT to see the guest list!

[texasflower]

"We're still working some of the kinks out of the campaign," says the Kerry adviser in Washington. "It's when he gets a little desperate, and wants to make a good impression that we end up with these gaffes. We're working on it."

We need to double this guy's pay!

[Rokke]

"John Kerry's presidential campaign reached out Monday morning to Spain's prime minister-elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, requesting the opportunity for the two men to meet."

Oh please let it be true. John Kerry meeting with the Al Queda appeasing Socialist leader of a cowering European country would be the most effective advertisement the Bush campaign could have.

[mseltzer]

He'll probably also stop in Israel long enough for a few photos.

[hershey]

Kim Il Chung? or whatever N.Korea's lunatic premier's name is....Kerry's guest list better include him.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Kerry can't wait to look "presidential" by running off to Spain and congratulating the Socialists. Talk about exploiting an act of terrorism...

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

"It's when he gets a little desperate, and wants to make a good impression that we end up with these gaffes. We're working on it."

Sounds like prevarication to me. Unfortunately for democrats Kerry he is but a shadow of what The Great Prevaricator x42 was. He needs a lot of work on telling really big whopping lies.

[NYCVirago]

Right. The country (USA) that single handedly cut France's tourism by 60%, costing France billions of dollars and boycotted almost every single French product because they betrayed us is going to run to vote for Kerry because "international leaders" want him? Sure. We didn't even want French wine. Why would we want HIM?

Great post!

[NYCVirago]

He'll probably also stop in Israel long enough for a few photos.

Has he decided if he's for or against the security fence yet? Maybe he can straddle the fence.

[lainde]

BIG mistake!