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Dish on campaign trail follies (JOHN KERRY: "I Can't Believe I'm Losing To This Idiot")
NY Daily News ^
| November 4, 2004
| TRACY CONNOR
Posted on 11/04/2004 9:34:18 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
In the biggest fight of his charmed life, John Kerry swung between bewilderment and anger when things didn't go his way on the campaign trial.
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," the Massachusetts Democrat sighed to a staffer when President Bush's poll numbers surged in April.
"Why the f--- didn't he take it?" he wondered when Republican Sen. John McCain refused to be his running mate a half-dozen times.
"It's a pack of f---ing lies, what they're saying about me," he shouted at an adviser as a group of Swift boat veterans stepped up attacks on his Vietnam War record while his team refused to let him respond.
Those are some of the behind-the-scenes stories from the year-long race for the White House revealed in a special Newsweek report out today. The magazine says Kerry's courtship of McCain to be his vice presidential candidate was far more intense than the public realized.
It started in August 2003, but kicked into high gear after Kerry nailed the nomination. He even offered to expand the veep's role to control defense and foreign policy. "You're out of your mind," McCain told Kerry. "I don't even know if it's constitutional, and it certainly wouldn't sell."
Kerry seemed stunned that McCain rebuffed him "after what the Bush people did to him," referring to the 2000 GOP presidential primary.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushvictory; cluelessness; dork; fword; ichabodcrane; kerry; kerrydefeat; leftisthate; lurch; mentalmeltdown; politicalcorrectness
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To: West Coast Conservative
And to think that 48% of Americans voted for this classless traitor.
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posted on
11/04/2004 10:13:25 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
To: politicket
Hey, John, why the long face?
122
posted on
11/04/2004 10:13:57 AM PST
by
AmishDude
(Hammacher Schlemmer has better submarines than the Canadian Navy.)
To: dAnconia
123
posted on
11/04/2004 10:14:12 AM PST
by
Annie03
To: okie01
Just like Clinton. Not a bit interested in what would be right for the country, all he wanted was the title and the perks. We did dodge a bullet.
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posted on
11/04/2004 10:15:38 AM PST
by
surrey
To: West Coast Conservative
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," the Massachusetts Democrat sighed to a staffer when President Bush's poll numbers surged in April.
BELIEVE IT
125
posted on
11/04/2004 10:16:23 AM PST
by
oldbrowser
(the people have spoken............loud and clear)
To: Corporate Law
I see high-fiving people.
126
posted on
11/04/2004 10:17:05 AM PST
by
auboy
(Bye bye Daschle, bye bye Kerry, you can go now, please don't tarry.)
To: West Coast Conservative
127
posted on
11/04/2004 10:18:10 AM PST
by
bootyist-monk
(<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
To: evets
128
posted on
11/04/2004 10:20:08 AM PST
by
dmartin
(Who Dares Wins)
To: West Coast Conservative
Here's hoping the country finally sees and hears the "real" John Kerry. He should be booted out of the Senate simply for not showing up for a year!
129
posted on
11/04/2004 10:20:25 AM PST
by
AuntB
(Most provisional ballots are from voters not eligible to vote!!! Ask a poll worker!)
To: West Coast Conservative
If they put 10 Thousand or so of these story's in a book. I would buy it and read it in the bathroom the rest of my life. :O)
To: okie01
He even offered to expand the veep's role to control defense and foreign policy. "You're out of your mind," McCain told Kerry. "I don't even know if it's constitutional, and it certainly wouldn't sell." okie01- But consider what this says about Kerry. In the midst of a war, he was prepared to farm out the responsibility for its conduct solely so that he might occupy the office.
And yet, consider what it says about McCain - he's thought through how it might "sell" aspect of it more than he has it's constitutionality. What if it might have sold? What would McCain have said to Kerry then?
To: leftcoaster
Go read the whole article if you haven't it talks about the Bush campaign too. Funny
132
posted on
11/04/2004 10:22:24 AM PST
by
tiki
(Win one against the Flipper)
To: NeonKnight
What? Did the press just sit on all of this stuff until after the election???? Yep! The media kept all this info to themselves during the campaign - and now they want us to buy their magazines to get the info after the election... I know what I want to tell Evan Thomas to do with his Newsweek... I'll just wait for the juice here at FR!
133
posted on
11/04/2004 10:23:08 AM PST
by
LibSnubber
(liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
To: Corporate Law
They likely got to eat in the kitchen with the other servants!
134
posted on
11/04/2004 10:27:08 AM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda/Fraud Kerry are not my senators.)
To: smiley
You mean Sean was talking about himself? Hard to believe!
:^)
135
posted on
11/04/2004 10:27:31 AM PST
by
capydick
("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." --President Dwight Eisenho)
To: evets
The most interesting thing about that picture is that they're watching CBS.
136
posted on
11/04/2004 10:27:52 AM PST
by
agrace
To: West Coast Conservative
"It's a pack of f---ing lies, what they're saying about me," he shouted at an adviser as a group of Swift boat veterans stepped up attacks on his Vietnam War record while his team refused to let him respond.
Gee, it was all lies. All he had to do was sign his SF-180 and he could have shown us all.
137
posted on
11/04/2004 10:29:34 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(America is Great because America is Good.)
To: West Coast Conservative
JOHN KERRY: "I Can't Believe I'm Losing To This Idiot""Pride cometh before the fall."
Pompous, arrogant, jack@ss!
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posted on
11/04/2004 10:32:20 AM PST
by
Sicon
To: West Coast Conservative
"It's a pack of f---ing lies, what they're saying about me," he shouted at an adviser as a group of Swift boat veterans stepped up attacks on his Vietnam War record while his team refused to let him respond. I'm also interested in purchasing the Brooklyn Bridge.
139
posted on
11/04/2004 10:34:28 AM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: mark502inf
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot" Misunderstimated.
Poor Strategery
140
posted on
11/04/2004 10:34:49 AM PST
by
talleyman
(A foreign leader told me on his deathbed: "Kerry is a liar - he just makes stuff up...")
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