Posted on 08/10/2004 1:55:36 AM PDT by kattracks
John Kerry's cross-country tour took him to Arizona yesterday as his friend and the state's popular GOP senator, John McCain, prepared to campaign with President Bush.After hiking along the rim of the Grand Canyon, Kerry told reporters he still would have voted to authorize war on Iraq even if he knew then there were no weapons of mass destruction.
"I believe it was the right authority for a President to have," Kerry said.
Bush said last week he would have invaded - weapons or no - and challenged Kerry to say how he would have voted.
Meanwhile, one-time rivals McCain and Bush will be making nice today and campaigning in - for real - Niceville, Fla.
Helen Kennedy
Originally published on August 10, 2004
-just for the record -- is this a flip or a flop, I've lost track....
I think we're back to flop with this one.
He said he was the anti-war candidate on 60 Minutes didn't he?
He just took away his WMD argument with that statement. What a whack job this fool is. What will his good buddy Howie Dean and the other left-wing attack dogs think of this?
It's a flip. The flop will come later, when he tries to explain why the heck he would vote against funding the absolutely necessary and just war.
How? He would have lost? Surrendered? Anyone know? Oh, secret plan, riiiiight....
Kerry: "Yes I would have voted for the war but but but but but but but but but but but but but"......
I checked last night and the some of the DU crowd won't vote for him because of this statement.
At least that's what they were saying.
Kerry has masterfully changed the terms of the debate. He has gotten all the conservatives to focus on his war record and stand in Iraq. He has taken positions that are hawkish on both. In the meantime, the real issues, the nature of his domestic policies go unnoticed. For instance, what will four more years of liberal democratic judges look like, combined with Clinton's 8 years? Can you say homosexual marriage? Speech codes? Increased gun restrictions? It will all happen and more. His tax increases? School policies? (yes the NEA will run the Dept of Education). Like LBJ in Vietnam, he will keep the war on terror going to insulate himself from attacks on the right, but domestically, he will move America very far to the left.
If the election is really as close as the polls say, then the key to winning will be turnout. If 5 to 10% of Kerry's votes are lost to apathy, then Bush will win in a landslide.
Why did he vote against the 87 billion, then??
I think he stood that pancake on it's edge...
I agree with your analysis that Kerry would be extremely liberal on domestic policies. However, Bush forced Kerry to take a stand on this issue about the war with or without WMD.
I hope Bush can force Kerry into statements about the things you mentioned. Kerry successfully sidestepped the gay "marraige" issue for now by saying he would have supported the Missouri effort, but he only said that AFTER the vote was 70-30%.
-just for the record -- is this a flip or a flop, I've lost track....
"I think he stood that pancake on it's edge..."
roflmaobt
He would have been "sensitive" about waging war.
Huh!.....would he still have voted not to fund the troops?
""I believe it was the right authority for a President to have," Kerry said.""
For "A" President to have. It doesn't mean the current President.
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