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Kerry: America doesn't need 'second Republican Party'
cnn.com ^ | August 20, 2005 | AP?

Posted on 08/21/2005 10:10:04 PM PDT by bitt

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Sen. John F. Kerry told state legislators Friday the Democratic Party doesn't need to undergo an extreme makeover, saying "the last thing America needs is a second Republican Party."

After blistering Republicans on everything from Iraq to health care, Kerry said Democrats have an opportunity to rebuild nationally by simply addressing the concerns that affect people's daily lives -- energy, transportation, health care and security.

"We have to go out and fight for the real issues that make a difference in the lives of the American people and we don't need some great lurch to the right or lurch to the left or redefinition of the Democratic Party," the Massachusetts Democrat said. "The last thing America needs is a second Republican Party."

Kerry spoke to 750 Democratic state legislators who were attending the National Conference of State Legislatures. He announced plans to campaign and raise money for Democratic legislative candidates across America.

His ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign was still clearly on Kerry's mind, with an analysis and a broadside against President Bush and congressional Republicans taking up the lion's share of his 35-minute speech to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee's luncheon.

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Kerry told his audience that while Republicans dither and practice politics of "nastiness and partisanship," Democratic legislators are showing the right stuff, connecting with people on their front porches and then going to the capitals to fix their problems.

"The states are now the laboratories, much more than before, because of the refusal of Washington to do what's important and necessary. You're forced to spend too much time cleaning up what Washington either messes up or leaves undone altogether."

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To: bitt
Wonder what happened to all his "plans?"

When he was running for Prez, he said he had a "plan" for everything that was so much better than anything Dubya was doing.

61 posted on 08/22/2005 3:59:54 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Be a glowworm. A glowworm's never glum. How can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum?)
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To: bitt
Jean Kerrie
62 posted on 08/22/2005 4:04:43 AM PDT by Jaysun (Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
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To: gop_gene; bitt
Like a lot of things about him, I wonder if those are even real--they look like white Chicklet gum instead of teeth to me. Giant horse teeth in a horse face. And "America doesn't need a second Kerry run for the presidency!"

If giant white Chicklet gum teeth were brains he'd rule the planet. But they're not.
63 posted on 08/22/2005 4:06:28 AM PDT by Jaysun (Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
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To: bitt; hellinahandcart; Lil'freeper

He is such a frickin' MORON!


64 posted on 08/22/2005 4:06:42 AM PDT by sauropod (Polite political action is about as useful as a miniskirt in a convent -- Claire Wolfe)
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To: hole_n_one

I read recently that one Democratic strategist remarked that the Democratic party has lost its brains.

Taunting and name calling backfires. It's been proven again and again. It's possible to rewrite history to say, well this person said bad things and he/she won. Lately it seems that the left decides it's name calling, or worse, if the right just shows up.

Criticism of both parties is a helpful thing if someone really scrutinizes what comments are valid and what aren't. Lately the beneficiary has been the Republican party as its partisans are better at hearing and processing bad news.

Democrats are being led by people who believed their own press about the efficacy of shouting opponents down in the sixties and seventies, even though a more objective analysis may find a different result. These same leaders are bound by "groupthink" (read a prettified version of narcissism). It would be better for the country if the Democrats could be honest and say, this is where we went wrong and we won't do that anymore. This may occur to a finite degree on the strategy level, but it hardly occurs at the policy level. And then make the changes.

It seems lately that the left finds a hypersanctity of continuing a bad policy as change is prohibited. Once a bad thing is done, it must continue to be done. For ever. Except as determined by SCOTUS? Weird.


65 posted on 08/22/2005 4:20:01 AM PDT by saveliberty (If all of the economists were to lie down head to toe, they would never reach a conclusion.)
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To: bitt

"After blistering Republicans on everything from Iraq to health care, Kerry said Democrats have an opportunity to rebuild nationally by simply addressing the concerns that affect people's daily lives -- energy, transportation, health care and security."

This... from a loser.


66 posted on 08/22/2005 4:23:21 AM PDT by Preachin' (Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
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To: sauropod

Looks like his Botox is wearing off.


67 posted on 08/22/2005 5:42:50 AM PDT by Lil'freeper
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To: bitt

Is this the flip or the flop?

One day he's a liberal pacifist leftist Democrat and the next day he's a moderate pro-defense Liebermann Democrat.

Which is it Johnny boy?

Do you stay on flip until rice in your arse makes you flop?


68 posted on 08/22/2005 5:43:26 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: Howlin
He's running.

He's destined to be a two time loser.

69 posted on 08/22/2005 5:56:22 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (The constitution is not in exile, it's in a nice safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands - Lileks)
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To: bitt

cross reference to
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468097/posts


70 posted on 08/22/2005 6:08:34 AM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: bitt

funny, because i don't really think we need a first democratic party.


71 posted on 08/22/2005 6:11:25 AM PDT by thefactor
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To: bitt
Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.






72 posted on 08/22/2005 6:15:22 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget)
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To: bitt; The Sailor; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; Blue Scourge; Cool Multiservice Soldier; ...

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry isn't behind the anti war crowd needs to get a clue.

Spineless US Senate would rather protect Hanoi Kerry
than deal with the anti war crowd.

It's time to support our troops and ignore the jelly fish in the US Senate!

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry isn't behind the anti war crowd needs to get a clue.

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

WAKEUP AMERICA!

For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
did in the past read on and learn the truth.

Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen

Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html

And the FBI has proof of his treason.

Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files

May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.

(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
may be tried at any time without limitation.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#*%20843.%20ART.%2043.%20STATUTE%20OF%20LIMITATIONS

Distribute these url's!

Links to Anti Kerry sites
212 LINKS
News reports,
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page

http://members.aol.com/ga1449ga/links/links.html


EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!

MUST SEE WEBSITE!!!!

http://www.kerrystreason.com/index.html

Full details on these url's!

http://stophanoikerry.150m.com

There is a backup site
if the 1st url is unavailable.

http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html

Did you see this...?
(The 'Kerry's Promise Counter')
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=6628
Polipundit even tells you how to install it on your own page!


73 posted on 08/22/2005 6:18:31 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

bumping!


74 posted on 08/22/2005 6:19:39 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: bitt
Kerry is about as relevant as Al Gore's new TV channel.

BTW, Kerry has obviously had more botox injections. He's also had dental caps.


75 posted on 08/22/2005 6:21:38 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: bitt

"You're forced to spend too much time cleaning up what Washington either messes up or leaves undone altogether."

Hey, Ketchup Boy--when Washington leaves things undone altogether, there's NO mess. The clean-up is required when you clowns try to DO something. Do us a favor: Try doing NOTHING for a change. Things will be a lot better.


76 posted on 08/22/2005 6:21:55 AM PDT by reelfoot
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To: hole_n_one
He's running. He's not too bright, is he?

The worst he can do is lose to Hillary...Bush only won by what? 80,000 in Ohio??? The Republicans have lost far more than that just over the illegal alien issue alone...

77 posted on 08/22/2005 6:36:09 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: hole_n_one
He voted for it before he voted against it. He is a genuis I tell you, a genuis.
78 posted on 08/22/2005 6:38:49 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT!!!!!!!


79 posted on 08/22/2005 6:44:33 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: bitt

I don't get it. Never heard a peep out of this poseur's mouth all of the years he has been in the Senate, and NOW, you can't shut him up!!


80 posted on 08/22/2005 6:50:52 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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