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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

He should have checked Bush's SAT score which is 20 points higher than his.


21 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:02 AM PST by mombrown1 (WHO)
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To: NeonKnight; neverdem

What?

You surprised they DIDN'T just "sit on this stuff" till after the election?

/sarcasm


22 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:02 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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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

There it is. Kerry has an advanced terminal form of liberalism - that simply by declaring that something is so, then it IS so. No facts or proof required.

Which is exactly why they're getting creamed.

23 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:08 AM PST by dirtboy (Tagline temporarily out of commission due to excessive intake of gin-soaked raisins)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Think the Secret Service guys who had to protect this shithead were out celebrating his defeat yesterday?


24 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:11 AM PST by Corporate Law (<>< -- Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Bet there's a bunch of blame game coming from "anonymous" sources "high up" in the campaign and Rat party coming down the pike too...


25 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:17 AM PST by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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To: West Coast Conservative
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot!"
26 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: West Coast Conservative

More will be revealed as time goes on....< rubbing hands> I can't wait!


27 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:24 AM PST by dansangel (Thank You GOD for answering our prayers!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Kerry lost to America. We have the power, and Kerry forgot this simple fact.


28 posted on 11/04/2004 9:39:55 AM PST by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Anybody surprised that within 36 hours after the election we have Gnusweak publishing what Kerry was really doing for the past 15 months?

Good thing 60 Minutes or the NYT didn't get wind of this, as I'm sure they would have been scooped in advance of the election...


29 posted on 11/04/2004 9:40:06 AM PST by leftcoaster
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To: West Coast Conservative
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."

Gotta give McCain some credit for saying that.

30 posted on 11/04/2004 9:40:08 AM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (No one notices the water until the well runs dry.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I can tell him why McCain rebuffed him. The same reason that the POWs that were on Stolen Honor spoke out. McCain has more class in his little finger than Kerry had in his whole body.


31 posted on 11/04/2004 9:40:12 AM PST by MadAnthony1776
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To: West Coast Conservative

wow, a must read Newsweek article

well spank my ass and call me Charley


32 posted on 11/04/2004 9:40:58 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

That kind of talk scares me more than the potty mouth.


33 posted on 11/04/2004 9:41:20 AM PST by Sleeping Freeper
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To: mark502inf
Only a REAL idiot would think that!-+
34 posted on 11/04/2004 9:41:40 AM PST by SMARTY ('Stay together, pay the soldiers, forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus, to his sons)
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To: West Coast Conservative

John F---in Kerry... living up to his name.

Call me old fashioned, but I never want a President who says the "f" word so frequently! Lynne Cheney was right... "This is not a good man."


35 posted on 11/04/2004 9:42:06 AM PST by rocky88 (What a great week to be a Republican!)
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To: evets
I'm still looking for my Carville-Trashcan-On-The-Head picture for the 2004 election.

But the one you posted has just taken the lead...thanks!
36 posted on 11/04/2004 9:42:25 AM PST by timpad (We. Are. Winning.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Wow, Kerry wasn't just a dork. He was an unstable dork.


37 posted on 11/04/2004 9:42:58 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

What a foul mouth. That's how his daughters got theirs. No class. Also, people who have difficulty in expressing their views tend to resort to obscenities.


38 posted on 11/04/2004 9:43:07 AM PST by Dante3
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To: West Coast Conservative

Clinton's advise was a loser. I'm a little surprised.
Why would Kerry jump on a "me too" attitude about gay marriage when it was already on the ballots of 11 states? Kerry's empty promise would have ticked off his base, kept gays and progressives from voting for him, and since it since the issue was decided a few months ago as a state issue, how could it even help him?
He acts like it is still 1996.


39 posted on 11/04/2004 9:43:31 AM PST by mabelkitty (Blackwell for Governor in 2006!!!)
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To: NeonKnight

You're surprised?


40 posted on 11/04/2004 9:43:42 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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