GOP sees pattern of fabrication by Kerry

Washington Times ^ | 3/22/04 | Stephen Dinan and Charles Hurt

[kattracks]

Republican campaigners, continuing to highlight Sen. John Kerry's statements that he had been endorsed by "foreign leaders," assert that this is part of a pattern of fabrications and exaggerations going back to his Massachusetts campaigns.

For his part, Mr. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has accused President Bush of misleading the United States into war in Iraq and being duplicitous on other issues, such as the cost of the Medicare prescription-drug legislation.

[kattracks]

Merriam-Webster

equivocator:Function : intransitive verb

1 : to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive

2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says synonym see LIE

[goldstategop]

We're going to see a slow and steady erosion of Kerry's standing as a national candidate - and he will be the one to do most of the work for us to that effect.

[LPStar]

Actually, I think it fairly likely that some foreign leaders did tell Kerry this. The new Spanish guy, for example, has said he wants Kerry to win. We can assume almost any Euro foreign minister or PM or whomever might have told him this.

But - Kerry knows it will not redound to his credit should he happen to list these names. Plus, and this is very significant, the people who told him this probably aren't happy with him sort of revealing their confidences either. Apart from ideology, Kerry has shown himself to be not that great at keeping a private confidence.

[The Raven]

How about a doctored picture of Kerry tossing a coin before he votes???

[MEG33]

Yesterday I called him Mr.Equivocal,The Master of Ambiguity

[The Raven]

>> For his part, Mr. Bush, on several occasions as president, has made public demands on pending bills, but abandoned those principles later.


What !!!???

The authors are whack-ohs!!!! That's called compromise.

[dokmad]

"He has to do and say things that are much more presidential."

For Kerry that would be like a monkey trying to imitate a Lion!

[RonHolzwarth]

Kerry knows it will not redound to his credit should he happen to list these names ---


YUP!

Arafat has GOT to be one of them!!!

[Caipirabob]

ON the bright side, John Kerry's output of fabricated material alone puts us back on a competative level with China.

[bayourod]

" Kerry has deviated from the "classic Democratic orthodoxy"

What deviation? Gore was an habitual lier. Clinton was an habitual lier.

Lying is the orthodoxy of Democratic candidates.

[MeekOneGOP]

Incredible !!

  "It's always been Kerry's tendency [to exaggerate], but he has become expert at it because the Massachusetts electorate has indulged his missteps over the years," said Robert Gray, a Republican media strategist in Boston who was spokesman for Republican William Weld's 1996 attempt to unseat Mr. Kerry. "And now he can't help himself. It's become a bad habit."
    White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that if Mr. Kerry didn't back up his statements about meeting with foreign leaders who told him "You gotta win this," voters should assume Mr. Kerry was making the endorsements up.
    "What we're seeing is part of a pattern," Mr. McClellan said. "This is not the first time that Senator Kerry has made claims and refused to back them up."

[MEG33]

Ouch!

[NYCVirago]

Others who have watched Mr. Kerry in Massachusetts said his honesty has never been questioned. Louis C. DiNatale, a senior fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts, said Mr. Kerry was not dogged by charges he switched positions. "Prior to the national race, I never heard of Kerry being accused of being a flip-flopper. What you'd hear is Kerry being accused of being an equivocator," Mr. DiNatale said.

Who's equivocating here, Mr. DiNatale?

[MeekOneGOP]

What an eyeopener this early in the morning, huh ? ;^O

[goldstategop]

To liberals nuances are taken for granted. Other people though find the whole thing a sign of how detached from reality the Left is.

[texasflower]

Well gosh. That's WAY better isn't it?!

[barker]

even though Mr. Kerry had "the only clear violation of the cap" by spending $1.7 million of his own money.

Kerry doesn't have his own money. He just married money.

[capt. norm]

Am I the only one who noticed that the news media didn't start talking about negative politics until after Bush's ads started running?

After months of the Democrats calling Bush and the Republicans names and coming up with reams of baseless allegations, it is only now that it is turning negative, according to them.

Liberal bias is like a beached whale...you can only ignore it and pretend like it's not there for so long....and then it starts to smell...a lot!

It appears that the public is picking up on the smell and tuning out of the alphabet network newscasts and dropping the major newspapers as news sources.

The liberal media can no longer hatch a lie and cultivate it without having to worry about the truth leaking out, the way they have always done. With the intent, the truth leaks out before the ink is dry on their newspapers.

[wingman1]

"... the truth leaks out before the ink is dry on their newspapers."

I think whoever leaked the video of bin Laden in 2000 in Afghanistan should be thanked.

[garylmoore]

Though voters still find Mr. Kerry more trustworthy than Mr. Bush? I think not.