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.
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He should have checked Bush's SAT score which is 20 points higher than his.
What?
You surprised they DIDN'T just "sit on this stuff" till after the election?
/sarcasm
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.
Think the Secret Service guys who had to protect this shithead were out celebrating his defeat yesterday?
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...
More will be revealed as time goes on....< rubbing hands> I can't wait!
Kerry lost to America. We have the power, and Kerry forgot this simple fact.
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...
Gotta give McCain some credit for saying that.
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.
wow, a must read Newsweek article
well spank my ass and call me Charley
That kind of talk scares me more than the potty mouth.
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."
Wow, Kerry wasn't just a dork. He was an unstable dork.
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.
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.
You're surprised?
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