Posted on 01/31/2005 1:24:09 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - Capping his week-long return to the spotlight, a defensive John Kerry appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday to explain his election loss - and was hit with yet more questions about Vietnam.Kerry ultimately chalked up the results to 9/11, saying it was hard for people to forsake their President after such a national trauma.
But host Tim Russert's lengthy grilling about details of a mission on the Cambodian border 36 years ago showed how well Kerry's opponents undercut his valorous record, and how badly Kerry fought back.
"I believe that 9/11 was the central deciding issue in this race," Kerry said. President Bush "obviously connected to the American people in those immediate days. When a country is at war and in the wake of 9/11, it's very difficult to shift horses."
He said a videotape of Osama Bin Laden that appeared days before the election may have sunk him. "We were rising in the polls up until the last day when the tape appeared," Kerry said.
But he noted he came within 60,000 votes of the White House, raised more money and got more votes than any Democrat before him.
Russert spent a good part of the interview asking if Kerry would release every item in his military record, which Bush has never done, and reading a Daily News editorial questioning Kerry's account of spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia. Kerry said he was in Cambodia but not that night. "It was on another day. I jumbled the two together," he said.
The Massachusetts senator has made little effort to hide his expectation to run again in 2008, and he has the money - about $20 million left over - the organization and the name recognition needed.
However, many Democrats are still baffled at how a candidate with so much money and such a united party could lose against a relatively unpopular President who sent the nation to war for weapons that didn't exist. The loss must be Kerry's fault, they think.
"Lenny Wilkens has a better chance of coming back as the Knicks coach," sniffed a top Democratic strategist with no love for Kerry.
Billionaire George Soros, who spent $26 million on anti-Bush efforts, also blamed Kerry, telling Bloomberg News yesterday, "Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative."
Experts say Kerry shouldn't be counted out. "There are only about 25 people in the country who can look in the mirror and credibly say they could be President, and Kerry is one of them," said Stephen Hess, senior presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Originally published on January 31, 2005
Like Algore, right? He's one of those 25 people who can look in the mirror and credibly say they could be President. I don't know where Stephen Hess knows 25 people like that but its all a bunch of cow manure. Jean Francois Cheri doesn't have the personality, let alone the gravitas, to be President. He still LOST. Liberals will never get it!
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
<< .... he noted he came within 60,000 votes of the White House .... >>
Or ten million, if the 6-7 million fraudulent votes counted for him are subtracted and their number added to the three million everyone else counted him missing it by.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
And I find it absolutely hilarious how the dems have done a total about-face--they are only concentrating on the electoral vote (if Kerry had prevailed) when I thought they cared SO MUCH about only the popular vote.
3.7 million - is what he lost by - not 60,000
Kerry is increasingly like the ex-wife or ex-husband from hell that just won't go away.
But let's not contemplate such a doomsday scenario, okay? It's too early in the morning.
No, it wasn't 9/11 Senator Waffle, it was the fact that the American people wised up to the fact that YOU ARE A PUTZ!!!
Now refund the salary for the job you never showed up for over the last year or so, stuff your f'in piehole with a Philly cheese-steak (with SWISS cheese of course), and tell your fellow Bay State Senator that fat, drunk and stupid is NO way to go through life.
And HEY! Count your blessings Jean Francois, at least TerRAYzah isn't FAT, right?
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
Yeah, Kerry can't let it go...what he took to be his rightful ascendancy to the Presidency was snatched away from him. He'll whine about it until he dies.
Kerry will say anything to hide the fact he was a bad campaigner.
1. you cant win with hate.
2. you cant win with lies
3.when you make claims of war records , be prepared to show them
4. when you have a nasty wife with a foul mouth keep her hidden
5. people are not born to be President. Especially Mass. pussies who never worked a day in their lives.
Kerry should pin loss on his lying.......
This tells you how smart Helen Kennedy is, Bush released his record its Kerry who never did.
How do stupid peoplr like these keep thier jobs?
John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are traitors, and should be treated accordingly!!!
agree....the twin idiot traitors of massofupchuck.
What sunk him was being a fraud and a liar. When this tape came out, THE LIAR and FRIENDS claimed it would not effect them and was actually bad for Bush. THEY LIED! THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING! ENOUGH AMERICANS KNEW HIM AND HIS CAMPAIGN WAS A LIE!
Kerry had the same myopic dementia as a Naval Officer --so
it appears. The delusions of Grandeur in his fostering the
notion that he was the "next JFK from Mass. " seems sure
sign of dementia.It was not 9-11-01 that defeated Kerry but his moral and mental confusion about 1968 and his play
acting as the image of a man he never was.
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