Kerry Declares Victory, Fires Back at Bush

Wire Service ^ | 3/16/04 | John Whitesides

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, promising a "great debate," declared victory in the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday and formally opened the general election campaign with an assault on President Bush's credibility.

With a win in Illinois, Kerry acknowledged he had enough delegates to July's nominating convention to claim the right to challenge Bush in November -- a formality given that most delegate counters put him over the top last week.

[Arkinsaw]

He will "open" his campaign at least 5 more times just like Gore did.

[zarf]

Kerry argues details and not policy. How inspiring is that?

He's terrible. Just a bad candidate with no ideas.

[Miss Marple]

Ack! Sitting in the same booth that Kennedy sat in!! Ack, ick, uck!

Can't this guy get laryngitis for a month or so? I can't stand to listen to him!!

[ladyinred]

"I think we can do better!" Is that the mantra of all Democrat candidates for President? Seems I have heard that before.

[VadeRetro]

"They didn't have the state-of-the-art body armor at the moment they went in," Kerry said, adding he supported an amendment that would have paid for the $87 billion by repealing tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans.

If the administration doesn't want to pay the troops in the precise class-warfare manner that Senator Kerry wants, then the troops don't get paid. But, hey! He supports them, really!

[zarf]

"They didn't have the state-of-the-art body armor at the moment they went in," Kerry said, adding he supported an amendment that would have paid for the $87 billion by repealing tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans.

Is this lame or what?

[VadeRetro]

It's sort of an extortion racket.

"I support you, really! I do! But you have to give me everything I want. I have attached 17 riders to the bill to pay you for putting your life on the line for your country. If I get 17 out of 17, I support you. Now get me what I want!"

[Wild Irish Rogue]

You should have seen Kerry's audience. It looked like the Moscow theater after they pumped in the knock out gas.

[eyespysomething]

Isn't that the same excuse he gave for not voting for some Cuba bill, that he supported it, but not how it was written.

[OldFriend]

No doubt about it, Kerry will do all the things that Kennedy did........cheating, lying, whoring, and selling out europe to end the Cuber threat.

During the Nixon/Kennedy campaign there was a national security intelligence briefing. Kennedy came away from the briefing and outright lied to the American people. Nixon was unwillng to divulge the info in the briefing and let the lie go unchallenged.

No doubt that Kerry is cut from that same cloth.

[VadeRetro]

Yep! There's a real pattern there. We saw the same nonsense on the firearm manufacturer's bailout bill this year. It was supposedly supported but then killed with poison-pill amendments from the Dem side.

Just more shuck-and-jive from the commie con artists.

[zygoat]

What? No "BRING IT ONS'? (he's gonna be sorry he ever uttered that stupid slogan, cause now it IS on.)

[LADY J]

"They didn't have the state-of-the-art body armor at the moment they went in," Kerry said, adding he supported an amendment that would have paid for the $87 billion by repealing tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans."

But he wouldn't support actually giving them the state-of-the art body armor.

Just let them wait until he gets the precise language he wants. If they die in the meantime - well - too bad.

[Spotsy]

What? No "BRING IT ONS'? (he's gonna be sorry he ever uttered that stupid slogan, cause now it IS on.)

We are going to have to chase him as he runs in full retreat.

Did you see Kerry attempt to use one of Secret Service agents as his signing table when he was signing tshirts? It looked like Kerry was going to drape the tshirt on the agent's chest, causing the guy to kind of take a step back.

[adam_az]

Kerry argues details and not policy.

He seems to think he's running for the office of Pedantic in Chief.

[EGPWS]

Kerry, accused by the White House in a new television ad airing in West Virginia of voting against funds for troops in Iraq, struck back by questioning Bush's credibility and saying he was blaming others for his own administration's failures.

Keep rowing John, oh and don't worry about that deafening roar you hear...people have survived the plunge over Niagara Falls you know.

[NYCVirago]

After his Huntington town hall meeting, Kerry greeted diners at a restaurant and sat in a booth where former President John F. Kennedy sat during his winning 1960 West Virginia primary campaign. "We're going to try to do justice to the example that he set over the years," Kerry told a well-wisher.

Did John Fing Kerry also watch stag films in West Virginia? That's what JFK did with reporters while waiting for the election results there. Of course, the reporters back then kept their mouths shut about it at the time...wait a minute, not much has changed in 40+ years after all, at least when it comes for the press covering up for their candidate.

[goldstategop]

Baron John F. Munchausen has to deal with his own credibility first. He can't even answer his own assertion about having met foreign leaders with the hard facts. And he has the chutzpah to attack President Bush's veracity!