We very lucky that KERRY imploded.......and W saved the day!
Wow, we really did dodge a lurch-laced bullet.
Its time to finish Kerry off once and for all.
For the good of the nation
McCain knew it even before Newsweak did.
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I knew Kerry was bad, but this is something else. At least McCain had some priciples.
It would also be interesting to know if Sen. McCain informed President Bush about the offer.
If the journalist was bound by some sort of agreement, McCain wasn't. I think it was his Duty to inform the President AND the American public. Everyone would have listened and believed him, even the Dem. Dogs. They were chomping at the idea of him being Kerry's running mate...they couldn't have back-peddled after it was obvious they felt a Kerry-McCain ticket was their hope.
Imagine the election stats if this had been known and the increase in Bush's margin of victory.
No mention of McCain's responsibility to report that Kerry was the public has been made. Why is this aspect being missed?
Kerry's desperation - not surprising at all.
Kind of funny about McCain. I don't think he would have made 3 votes difference for Kerry, had he been the VP choice.
Just re-inforces my theory that everybody in his party knew he was going to lose except Kerry. Well, maybe Kerry knew he wasn't supposed to win, but decided to double cross the party and go for broke.
Promises are promises, but whatever happened to what, under different circumstances, Newsweek and similar publications would herald as "the public's right to know"?
If this was Bush who had suggested such a thing, don't you think the OM would have reported it using their old stand-by "unnamed source"?
It confirms what we've known all along. Kerry wanted the power and prestige of the presidency to fulfill his ambition. It had nothing to do with America or Americans and how to better our country. There was no principle which couldn't be changed, there were no core values that couldn't be nuanced. The man married a billion dollars, he sure wasn't doing it for the money. Poor Mr. JFK wanted to go into the history books and he still may play a prominent role when the story of Bush is told, we all remember Benedict Arnold too.
By now, everyone should know the MSM is a bunch of pimps and whores for the democrat party.
Okay, to be fair to Newsweek....this is done every election cycle. A few reporters are allowed to be embedded with the campaign in essence. The deal: None of the material is published until after the election. If this weren't the deal, or if the idiots in the press didn't keep their word, no campaign would allow them to come along. They certainly would never be privy to the candid moments that could potentially embarass the candidates.
Moreover, Kerry — seeking the presidency in a time of grave international danger — promised to put McCain in charge of all U.S. foreign policy should they win.
"You're out of your mind," McCain reportedly told Kerry. "I don't even know if it's constitutional."
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So why did Newsweek sit on the news for all those months?
Because the magazine promised the campaigns that anything obtained by this team of journalists during the course of the campaign would go unreported until the election was over.
Well, I guess that explains why NEWSWEEK didn't report it, but not why noone else did. No way Newsweek had sole knowledge.