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Hugh Hewitt (on news that the Sunday papers are coming to the 'rescue' of Kerry): Americans don't tolerate posers, especially posers who keep changing the pose. The many lives of John Kerry came into focus this week, and we haven't even begun to see the "nculear freeze" Kerry of 1984, or the Sandinista-supporting Kerry of the following years. We have had a glimpse of the "cut-the-intelligence-budget-by-50%" Kerry, and we have seen both the reduce the forces on the Korean peninsula Kerry and the Kerry outraged by such cuts.
John Kerry will say any damn thing he thinks will get him ahead. And it began in Vietnam in 1968, and you suspect it made it into his citations, and you know for sure it made it onto the floor of the Senate in 1986. He'll be whomever he needs to be to move on up, taking whatever position needs to be taken to get there.
Show me the Sunday paper story that can turn a known liar into a trustworthy spokesman. It doesn't exist.
For the percentage of America that so hates George W. Bush that they'd vote again even for the know widely-recognized-to-be-out-of-control Al Gore, none of this matters. Sure they are out there, and perhaps number even 10% of the electorate judging by ticket sales to F911. And then there are the folks who just pull the D lever, no matter how weird the nominee.
But I think there are millions of 9/11 Democrats, represented by RogerLSimon and others I suspect most of these people have kids or grandkids and understand we are in the fight of our lives --and their lives. And they aren't interesting in putting into the White House a man without a core, as Morton Kondracke put it to me today, or a fraud, as I have come to understand him.
John Kerry had his big moment --a brief period in which the control of the setting and the editing allowed him to project the life as he wishes it were seen by all people and at all times. Even at that moment he didn't carry a majority, and now that moment is gone --smashed in fact. And ten Sunday paper scoops won't put it back.

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The vast majority of users of this site would pull the "R" lever no matter who was running for President on the Republican ticket. Right?

John kerry should be allowed to change his story however many times he sees fit. Who are we to question such a brave and noble warrior??? And I know he's a brave and noble warrior because he said so, damnit!

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