[NewMediaFan]

Grasping at straws...

[JennysCool]

Kerry has not been a high-profile legislator, but there's no evidence he is trying to pretend he doesn't have a day job. His Senate votes and activities come up regularly on the campaign trail and he says he's proud of them.

He's apparently doing pretty well for a guy who hardly shows up at the place anymore.

[oolatec]

Kerry's Senate record? LOL Edwards has just cost Kerry a somewhat respectible loss in November... it's going to be a landslide.

Of note, Kerry has only attended 9% of votes this year... what a joke...

Check congressmerge.com for his voting record since Jan. 2003. It's pathetic in every stretch of the word.

[Brett66]

Kerry has not been a high-profile legislator, but there's no evidence he is trying to pretend he doesn't have a day job

Well that's a ringing endorsement. LOL!

[Jeff Head]

If he's really decided to stand on his record as a Senator...then he is truly on his last leg and knows it's over.

[spinestein]

If Kerry was running a competent campaign, he would have been spinning this angle six months ago. It's a bit late for this, but we'll take this on, too.

[Paleo Conservative]

Bring it on!

[spinestein]

The fact is; He's not executive material!!!

[Tempest]

The article was written by a serious Kerry cheerleader I hope that this article came from the Op-Ed section.

[RasterMaster]

Kinda hard for Mr. Absentee Senator to "stand up" when he doesn't even bother SHOWING UP!

[Hank All-American]

Kerry was in the Senate?

[F16Fighter]

Kerry ...looking to draw an inside straight.

[christie]

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The greatest achievements of Kerry's stellar Senate career were

Stopping the funding for the Nicaraguan Contras after bringing back a peace agreement with Daniel Ortega of the Sandanistas (which was worthless). Ortega turned around and solicited $200 million from the Soviets a few days later. Read: Kerry's Disloyal Nicaraguan Journey and Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'

Investigating (or creating) the Iran/Contra and BCCI scandals.

Blocking the vote on the Vietnam Human Rights Act in the Senate in 2001, which tied U.S. aid to Vietnam's human rights performance, and had passed by a 410-1 margin in the House of Representatives. Kerry, chairman of the Senate's East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee, said in a statement at the time that he and fellow Vietnam War veteran Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) "are concerned that denying aid to Vietnam would actually slow human rights improvements." Many Vietnamese living abroad, along with human rights campaigners, say conditions in Vietnam have deteriorated in the three years since Kerry blocked the legislation.

Persuading the MIA/POW Senate committee to vote unanimously that no POWs existed in Vietnam in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO of Colliers Intl, received a contract for a huge commercial deal worth at least $905 million to develop a deep-sea commercial port at Vung Tau). For more on the POW/MIA issue, here is a great article: When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A. - Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind

For more, check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends, post on your blogs.
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[Wolfhound777]

Is sKerry purposely sabotaging his own campaign? I don't think I have ever seen anyone that is more of an idiot than this moron. First, he makes Vietnam his main issue and that cost him dearly when people learned he was a fraud and a traitor, and now he wants to make his weak record in the Senate an issue. Once people realize that he did nothing for 20 years except steal a salary from the taxpayers, he is through. Don't get me wrong, I am all for him shooting himself in the other foot but I just can't believe someone could be this stupid. It's frightening that this man has a security clearance.

[Raycpa]

bump

[martin_fierro]

Kerry's Voting Record on Defense....

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Kerry has voted for at least SEVEN major reductions in Defense and Military spending, necessary for our national security:

1. In 1996 - Introduced Bill to slash Defense Department Funding by $6.5 Billion.
2. In 1995 - Voted to freeze Defense spending for 7 years, slashing over $34 billion from Defense.
3. Fiscal 1996 Budget Resolution - Defense Freeze. "Harkin, D-Iowa, amendment to freeze defense spending for the next seven years and transfer the $34.8 billion in savings to education and job training."
4. In 1993 - Introduced plan to cut numerous Defense programs, including:
   • Cut the number of Navy submarines and their crews
   • Reduce the number of light infantry units in the Army down to one
   • Reduce tactical fighter wings in the Air Force
   • Terminate the Navy's coastal mine-hunting ship program
   • Force the retirement of no less than 60,000 members of the Armed Forces in one year.
5. Has voted repeatedly to cut Defense spending, including:
   • In 1993, voted against increased Defense spending for Military Pay Raise. Kerry voted to kill an increase in military pay over five years.
   • In 1992, voted to cut $6 billion from Defense.
   • In 1991, voted to slash over $3 Billion from Defense. Shift money to social programs.
   • In 1991, voted to cut defense spending by 2%
   • Voted repeatedly to cut or eliminate funding for B-2 Stealth Bomber
   • Voted repeatedly against Missile Defense - Weapons Kerry sought to phase out were VITAL in Iraq. "[K]erry supported cancellation of a host of weapons systems that have become the basis of US military might-the high-tech munitions and delivery systems on display to the world as they leveled the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in a matter of weeks." (Brian C. Mooney, "Taking One Prize, Then A Bigger One," The Boston Globe, 6/19/03)
   • Military hardware he felt we no longer need since the "cold war" is past. The money would be better spent on "social" programs. These weapons are now the core of our military might. * F-16 Fighting Falcons. * B-1Bs B-2As F-15 And F-16s * M1 Abrams * Patriot Missile * AH-64 Apache Helicopter * Tomahawk Cruise Missile * Aegis Air-Defense Cruiser
6. During 1980s Kerry And Michael Dukakis joined forces with liberal group dedicated to slashing Defense. Kerry sat on the board of "Jobs With Peace Campaign," which sought to "develop public support for cutting the defense budget..."("Pentagon Demonstrators Call For Home-Building, Not Bombs," The Associated Press, 6/3/88)
7. While running for Congress in 1972, Kerry promised to cut Defense Spending. "On what he'll do if he's elected to Congress," Kerry said he would 'bring a different kind of message to the president." He said he would, "Vote against military appropriations." ("Candidate's For Congress Capture Campus In Andover," Lawrence [MA] Eagle-Tribune, 4/21/72)

"So you can look at all the potential threats of the world, and when you add the expenditures of all of our allies to the United States of America, you have to stop and say to yourself, 'What is it that we are really preparing for in a post-cold-war world?'" (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 5/15/96, p. S5061)

[savedbygrace]

The issue is NOT what Kerry has supported, but what significant legislation has he authored. The answer is ZERO, which means he is a follower, not a leader.

That's the important issue here. Is he a leader or a follower? He's a follower.

[lonestar]

Thirty years ago it might have been fun to sit back and watch Kerry try to be POTUS. Not in today's world.

[TASMANIANRED]

During the convention he ran away from his senate record in order to be a war hero.

Now he is trying to be a powerful senator.

What a dofus.

[boycottliberalhollywood.com]

"Two decades of fighting for you in the United States Senate."

[GailA]

His votes are those of a SOCIALIST therefore NOT in the best interest of America.