Kerry Attended Meeting.. But Voted "No" on Killing Senators

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[RightOnline]

Re: Your #3: Perfect. Just dead-on perfect. Applauding.

[Warren]

This guy is not a major threat to Bush. As time goes by it will become
more obvious Kerry is not a prime time player.
I have already heard how top dems will find a way to deny him the
nomination at the convention.

[muawiyah]

We have only Kerry's word that he voted "NO". Then, too, he lied about even being there.

Other members of the Senate would be well advised to not turn their back on this guy.

[RolandBurnam]

If this was about bush, this would be breaking news on cnn and every major outlet tonight.

[keysguy]

Between the mainstramers and the left wing college professors those who are not political junkies could get real lost trying to sort stuff out.

[johnb838]

Seems like the m/s media always sets the agenda for those things. This would never come up. A "youthful indiscretion". No worse than "No controlling Legal Authority."

[keysguy]

Don't discount f'ing, it's not so much how well he performs but how well he is handled.

[aruanan]

Kerry Attended Meeting.. But Voted "No" on Killing Senators

But, you know, they voted on it. What can be more Democratic than that?

[Sacajaweau]

The first picture gets a "peace" flower...the second gets a cigar!!

[murdoog]

Conservatives are so naive. Kerry is just going to take this and turn it into a campaign slogan..."John Kerry: He votes AGAINST killing senators!"

[sandmanbr]

I believe that none of them are guilty of conspiracy unless one of the plotters took some substantial action to carry out the plot. Any lawyers here care to comment?

Senator Stennis D-Ms was one of the senators targeted and within a year had been shot. I think this could be the reason.

[Cosmo]

Let me guess the Kerry line: " I actually voted to kill those senators, before I voted against it."

[Yaelle]

One of the senator victims in the plot was shot in the chest a year later and the crime was never solved. He was a Democrat, too.

[Kryptonite]

With each passing day, I think that Kerry fears debating the President more and more. It's one thing to hole up in Al Franken's apartment with a bunch of leftist while male media types in an effort to devise a strategy for a campaign, as he did last December. It's quite another to have to answer questions about murder, conspiracy and the fact of a voting record on such abominable issues.

Yet, I believe Kerry is the most arrogant politician I have ever seen. He has such little respect for others, including his handlers, wife, Bush and the American people, that he probably thinks he'll gain ground in debates. He's wrong, of course.

[XJarhead]

I hate to defend the guy, but....

This is the kind of allegation that doesn't help us. You could just as easily argue that walking out on that meeting without trying to convince other people that they were wrong would have been irresponsible. By staying there, arguing that it was wrong, and voting against it, he did the right thing.

You can try to spin that differently, but that's a pretty effective explanation in my view. He voted against it, and that's what his campaign will pound into the ground if Rove is dumb enough to bring this up.

This is up there with trying to link Clinton to various deaths. Anyone who isn't already firmly against Clinton is going to dismiss that as a whack-job argument. It serves no purpose other than to discredit the person who makes the allegation.

[alloysteel]

How do we know that Kerry did NOT first vote "yes", then change his vote to "no"?

Once one has mastered the nuance of a fence-straddle, one could deftly slip out of one opinion into another, absolutely seamlessly and effortlessly. And never be held to account for either one.

[Tax Government]

If he participated in a vote, it means he had some level of commitment to being bound by the result of the vote.

[Digger]

If Kerry was involved in such a group, if he attended such a meeting, if he participated in such a vote - he is not fit to be a serious candidate for President. The truly obscene things the press make excuses for will one day harm this nation's safety (if it hasn't already). But my close second in culpability is Republicans. We treat democrats with respect who we should demand resign. A Senator who killed a girl in his car, went home to "sleep it off." and prevented an inquest; A president who violently raped and battered a woman as a state attorney general, then groped a woman in the Oval office on the day her husband had committed suicide; A congresswoman who urged Fidel Castro NOT to extradite a killer who executed a NJ State Trooper, calling the killer a "freedom fighter." The list goes on and I think way too many republicans are guilty of tolerating such people.

I vote this the BEST reply of the day. Good go'in Williams.

[crushkerry]

Rove isn't going to bring it up because of the reasons you mention. However, the press and grassroots orgs. like ours can do the job for him - leaving him "deniability". Also, the more fires it creates for them to put out the better.

But most importantly, this isn't something that was made up out of whole cloth. It's based in fact from the actual people who were there and comes from verifiable sources.

[Graymatter]

Beats abstaining, but if it were me I wouldn't have stuck around to vote, I'd have dropped a dime at the corner phone booth. Yeah, it's contrary to the bonds of band-of-brothers and code of the west and Robert's rules too.

Sheesh, what a patriot! John F. Calley, anyone?