Posted on 09/02/2004 12:43:54 PM PDT by BullishOnAmerica
My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend.
He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.
Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.
John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."
(Excerpt) Read more at miller.senate.gov ...
Get out of here, troll.
I think you are a lib TROLL !
Zell has already said repeatedly his deciding moment to call the Dems to the carpet was when they played politics with national security. When they were forcing collective bargaining to the floor for political purposes while ignoring national security bills...... Thats all part of the 2002 campaign.... anything Zell said before that was before he had his eyes opened to his parties malfeasance and traitorous behaviors.
Right-complete non story and if the Dems think this will alter what was said last night by Zell...LOL!!
He also ripped HW during the '92 convention and yet he was sitting next to him during VP Cheney's speech.
A lot of isolationists changed their minds after Pearl Harbor too.
The Democrats bringing this stuff up shows them that they don't understand the seriousness of significance of what happened on 9/11.
I think you are a troll.
I think that if anything, it shows even more so that Miller is telling the truth with regards to the fact that he's mostly been turned off by the democrats' appalling post-9/11 behavior, especially in regards to the war in Iraq.
and I voted for Clinton...twice.. we all make horrible mistakes which hopefully we learn from and move on. Zell has and so have I.
Zell is one of many more Democrats who have come to know the truth about JFK.
I doubt it would be on Miller's site if it was not true. But I think it only makes Miller's speech more powerful.
It took going to the belly of the beast (Washington) to see that his beloved party of Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Scoop Jackson has become the party of Karl Marx.
The deluded yokels in the Democrat Newsmedia are going to have an epiphany also, sooner or later. Reality is going to come crashing down on them. Before they know it, an even more powerful confrontation with truth is going to shatter their illusions. It won't be pleasant.
For those who refuse to heed Zell's, the next wake-up call is going to be much more alarming!
I say that it says nothing. Things have changed drastically since then. I know it, because I changed my mind as well. I voted for Al Gore in the past elections, but will vote for Bush now, marking my first time me voting Republican.
I think Kerry's former COs in Vietnam can relate to this!
Not really.
Kerry is characterized as a flip-flopper mostly because while on the campaign gtrail, he has argued inconsistent positions. It's colloquially called 'flip flop' but in fact, and I have said this consistently, it's more that he speaks out of both sides of his mouth. So saying one thing in 1992 and saying something different in 2002 isn't necessarily a flip flop.
Saying something at a rally in early August 2004 and then saying something different a week later, then going back to the original position, isn't 'flip flopping', it's doubletalking. Every politician does it, I think, it just seems Kerry does it more.
President Bush, for example, ran in 2000 on a decidedly non-interventionist foriegn policy. He pretty much lived up to that for the first 8 months of his campaign. His position changed when the US suffered an attack that cost us 3000 lives and $100 billion. The circumstance changed and the conclusions changed. That isn't 'flip flopping.'
Kerry is professing alternate postures almost simultaneously. That's a bad sign in a leader's resolve and his judgment. That's speaking out of both sides of your mouth, not 'flip flopping.'
As you can see, I don't like the flip-flop tag since I don't think its accurate or descriptive of what Kerry (or what Miller or Bush) is doing.
You have posted two liberal threads and never replied to any posters.
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