Posted on 09/22/2004 10:24:47 PM PDT by smonk
[you don't have to excerpt townhall, do you?]
And the dems want us to concentrate on Bush supposedly missing several months of National Guard service. 20 years of taking up oxygen and warming a seat in Congress with nothing to show for it? What a slacker.
Thomas Sowell. Always excellent.
How many bills did Kerry actually introduce? How many of them made it out of a committee?
My thoughts exactly. I've been saying the same but not as well. John Kerry has been a do-nothing, no-show Senator for 20 years. Was referred to as a backbencher by the Clinton administration. What exactly is his claim to fame? 4 months in Vietnam?
Yet this sniveling punk has a big mouth on him when it comes to George Bush who has a record he can run on. One that can be praised or criticized.
ROTFL - it isn't even an analogy. It's the literal truth.
How many bills did Kerry actually introduce? How many of them made it out of a committee?.....
IIRC he he's had 7 bills passed in his 20 years in the Senate. John Kerry is unable to lead men because he's a queer duck. No Senator respects him enough to work with him or follow him.
There it is, Bush-Cheney 2004 - - the first line of your next TV ad.
Take it and run with it.
maybe why they've been curiously silent on his nomination. THAT'S unusual because it's the ONLY thing that GWB has done in the past six months -- save maybe visiting hurricane ravaged areas of the US -- that these amateurs haven't unqualifiedly crapped on.
I think it's very telling that SENATOR Kerry's committee attendance is just one more record he wants to keep hidden.
HA! I would be suspicious that he just got out of the penitentiary.
The principle reason is that Kerry does not talk much about it and nobody has been able to hang him with it.
His endlessly touted Vietnam service served ironically and justly to give traction to the Swift Boat Vets's effort against him.
Kerry is wise not to much raise the issue of his Senate record to a prominent point of his campaign. The paper trail of so many years is much more extensive and accurate than the combat records and citations of four months service in Vietnam 35 years ago. His laziness, non attendance, bloviations on the Senate floor, and steadfast opposition to so many Military programs and Anti-Soviet foreign policy positions will scream to high heaven if brought to the fore. In short, he is a liberal Senator from Massachusetts.
I've got an idea that may change in the debates, but it's tough to call him a non-entity AND maintain that he's voted against nearly every major weapons system in the past 20 years. the two ideas seem to conflict, and team bush seems to prefer the latter.
He certainly will not rely on the facts of his Senate record, but he will act insulted if the questions are raised.
The central technique of his campaign has been to accuse the opponents of smear tactics at any criticism.
I've often thought that "for three whole months . . .", "for three whole months . . .", "for three whole months . . ." would be an excellent response. how much of the public thinks he pulled two or three tours of duty in viet nam?
of course, the problem with that response is that it would seem ungrateful to anyone who served, and that is VERY unlike bush.
Lol!, but you are right Bush would never do that, but the Swift Boat Vets have done the heavy lifting for us and many now know details and questions that Bush and the GOP could never have stated.
I copied a post awhile ago. As I recall 3 of the bills were for renaming some Federal buildings, 3 were for designating a day as "Mrs. O'Leary's cow day" or something similarily important, and ONE was actually something real (sort of?) - it was somehow doing some type of accounting change in how the senators got paid?!? (They were SOMETHING like this.)
They were minor bills. That's how I remember it. Kerry got 6 or 7 minor bills through in 20 years of windsurfing through the US Senate.
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