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Kerry: Replace Rumsfeld With McCain
Newsmax ^ | 5/12/04

Posted on 05/12/2004 8:49:16 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Sen. John Kerry wants his Republican ally John McCain to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"If America has reached a point where only one person has the ability in our great democracy to manage the Pentagon and to continue or to put in place a better policy even, we're in deeper trouble than you think," Kerry told broadcaster Don Imus today.

"I don't accept that. I just don't accept that. I think that's an excuse. The fact is that we need a change in policy."

Asked who he'd pick as a replacement, the presidential candidate first named Sen. McCain. Then he mentioned Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and William Perry, who was defense secretary under Bill Clinton.

"There are any number of people who are unbelievably capable. This notion that we have to continue with a policy that's wrong and taking us down the wrong track is absurd," Kerry said.

McCain has long been an apologist for the Massachusetts Democrat. Only this week he said no one should look into Kerry's admitted war "atrocities."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2004; dod; generalmcclellen; johnmccain; kerry; pissant; rumsfeld; secdef
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To: Williams
Are you ok...ok...ok...ok...ok...ok...ok?

FMCDH

41 posted on 05/12/2004 9:53:54 AM PDT by nothingnew (KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
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To: areafiftyone
McCain would be replaced by a dem. Carl Lenin(whose about 70 and LIKELY in his last term) would also be replaced by a dem.(John Cherry would be my guess)

Keep Rumsfeld.

42 posted on 05/12/2004 9:54:45 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("I bury those cockroaches")
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To: areafiftyone; PhilDragoo; Ragtime Cowgirl; Cindy; SusanTK; McGavin999; AdmSmith; seamole; Valin; ...

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS


43 posted on 05/12/2004 9:59:46 AM PDT by Smartass ( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - THE BEST GET BETTER)
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To: Williams
It was Carl Lenin who got Michigan's base in Marquette closed........
44 posted on 05/12/2004 9:59:58 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("I bury those cockroaches")
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To: Williams
apologies. I swear I hit it once.
45 posted on 05/12/2004 10:04:19 AM PDT by Williams
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To: areafiftyone
Irrefutable proof that Kerry is unfit to be president of the United States.
46 posted on 05/12/2004 10:11:31 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Torrance Ca....land of the flying monkeys)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Suggesting Carl Levin as a sec of Defense is a perfect example of why Kerry would be a disaster. Levin puts his life at risk tying his shoelaces. Do we want a war on terror run by a pipsqueak like Levin? Is PeeWee Herman not available? Bush appoints warriors, Kerry proposes an aging effete wus. Jez what a loser.
47 posted on 05/12/2004 10:12:19 AM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: areafiftyone
It would turn the senate over to the RATS, sure he likes the idea, and besides mcnasty is a RINO.
48 posted on 05/12/2004 10:21:29 AM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)
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To: Smartass; areafiftyone
McCain has long been an apologist for the Massachusetts Democrat. Only
this week he said no one should look into Kerry's admitted war "atrocities."

John McCain Exposed! Photographed in his Natural Habitat!


49 posted on 05/12/2004 11:07:23 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Smartass

http://www.greysquirrel.net/john.html


Squirrel of the Month

John McCain




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50 posted on 05/12/2004 11:08:13 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: areafiftyone; Smartass
McCain's Rating per the ACU


Senator John Mccain (R)*
Arizona
Republican, Years of Service: 21

ACU Ratings for Senator Mccain:
Year 2003 75
Year 2002 78
Lifetime 84

_________________________________________

* (RINO?)


51 posted on 05/12/2004 11:14:59 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: areafiftyone
Oh, please, he's got to be kidding, that rhinoooooo.
52 posted on 05/12/2004 11:19:48 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: MeekOneGOP
Good pic. The more McCain talks the less credibility he has.
53 posted on 05/12/2004 11:35:36 AM PDT by Smartass ( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - THE BEST GET BETTER)
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To: GailA
Obviously this isn't going to happen. Is this Kerry's set up to bring McCain on board?
54 posted on 05/12/2004 11:41:27 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: areafiftyone
I think McCain is still sour from losing the primary to Bush.
55 posted on 05/12/2004 12:00:57 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc
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To: MeekOneGOP; Mia T; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; Travis McGee; onyx; dixiechick2000


LAST LIB



TO DYE



56 posted on 05/12/2004 12:14:00 PM PDT by devolve (................... [..........................Hello from Sunny South Florida.............)
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To: expatpat
Kerry grabs the Mccain brass ring each time his campaign swings through and needs a boost. McCain has a very distinguished military career. I am still mad as hell at him and John Glenn over the Keating mess. They should have been tossed from the senate right then and there. Lies and corruption should always be rewarded with a kick in the butt
57 posted on 05/12/2004 1:11:56 PM PDT by oldironsides
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To: areafiftyone
Gee, I suppose it's just a coincidence that if the WH took his advice and picked McCain, the the governor of Arizona is a Dimocrat, and she would pick McCain's replacement. How about the other states?
58 posted on 05/12/2004 1:35:07 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Smartass
Yep. Pic by SerpentDove.

59 posted on 05/12/2004 2:17:36 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Owl_Eagle
That will happen only over my DEAD body! And .. I'm not kidding. This scum can never be allowed to ascend to the WH.
60 posted on 05/12/2004 2:30:42 PM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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