Posted on 09/23/2005 4:05:17 PM PDT by RWR8189
emember John Kerry? It's been a busy week for the 2004 Democratic nominee. On Monday, Kerry delivered a long speech at Brown University blasting the Bush administration's inept response to the Katrina disaster and just about every other thing it's laid a finger on. Two days later, Kerry gave a floor speech in the Senate declaring his unsurprising opposition to the John Roberts nomination.
Make no mistake: Kerry designed these to be attention-grabbers. His staff hyped both of them relentlessly. Four e-mails from Kerryland popped into my inbox before and after his Brown speech, which Kerry aides billed as a "major address." Meanwhile his Roberts speech was garnished with no fewer than six e-mail alerts, a pace that might embarrass some Viagra spammers.
And the net result was ... well, not much. Kerry's "major address" was ignored by The New York Times, while The Washington Post lumped it in with a similar anti-Bush speech delivered by John Edwards. His Roberts broadside earned only fleeting mentions in both papers. No one seemed very interested. Even bloggers didn't pay much attention. (New York Times columnist David Brooks did use the occasion to slam Kerry as a cheap partisan--hardly the attention Kerry wanted.)
So it goes with John Kerry these days. Had 60,000 Ohioans voted differently, he would now be leader of the free world. After the election it seemed possible that Kerry would soldier on as the voice of national Democrats. Yet in a matter of just months he's gone from the face of his party to another face in the crowd.
It's not that Kerry isn't trying. Kerry has done anything but slink off into a post-defeat hibernation the way some other recently vanquished presidential nominees--Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis, even Al Gore (remember the beard and the European vacation?)--have done. Well before this week, Kerry was traveling the country campaign-style to promote a children's health care plan he has, at least for the moment, made his top priority. Even as I write this, I see from the latest Kerry, Inc., email that the senator is touting another new plan to fight global AIDS.
No, Kerry seems hell-bent on redemption at the ballot box in 2008. You can see it in his strident attacks on the Bush administration, which he laid out in rhetorically goofy fashion on Monday:
Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq. What George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence, what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad. The bottom line is simple. The "we'll do whatever it takes" administration doesn't have what it takes to get the job done. This is the Katrina administration.
You can also see Kerry's '08 ambitions in hints dropped by his political operation, which has never shot down speculation that Kerry would run again. As The Boston Globe's Peter Canellos wrote, Kerry's Katrina speech "had the air of a major political moment," surrounded as he was by his family and several top aides who "scrutinized his performance from the front row somewhat like the judging panel on 'American Idol.'"
And you can see it in that most reliable barometer of political activity: fundraising. As of August 15, Kerry's leadership PAC had raised around $750,000 this year, second only among his potential 2008 rivals to Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, who has practically declared his candidacy.
Yet while the political world hangs on every word from Hillary Clinton's mouth, and Joe Biden seems to be getting more airtime than Anderson Cooper, no one appears terribly interested in what John Kerry has to say anymore.
It's not just the media--it's Democratic voters, too. Kerry placed second in an August CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll which asked Democrats whom they preferred as a 2008 nominee. That doesn't sound so bad until you consider the numbers. Kerry finished with 16 percent, while the front-runner, Hillary Clinton (of course), had a whopping 40 percent. And Kerry was barely ahead of John Edwards, who placed just one point behind him. A June Fox News poll yielded similar results.
And it gets even more ominous. Kerry is especially unpopular within the world of netroots Democrats--the blog-based crowd who nearly lifted Howard Dean to the Democratic nomination and whose influence over the 2008 primaries will only be more powerful. The bloggers and their acolytes are still trying to figure out which candidates to promote for the next presidential nomination. But at the moment there seems to be no groundswell for the last nominee. In a summer straw poll conducted by DailyKos.com, perhaps the Grand Central Station of netroots liberals, Kerry finished with a pathetic 2 percent--putting him behind the likes of Biden, Virginia Governor Mark Warner, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, and the estimable "No Freakin' Clue." (Wesley Clark finished a clear first with 34 percent.) Meanwhile in another recent straw poll over at the Kos-like site MyDD.com, Kerry tallied just 3 percent among 14 Democrats.
None of this should come as a shock. Kerry was never an inspiring candidate. He overcame Howard Dean at the last minute in large part because he could afford to give his primary campaign a huge loan. His feeble response to last summer's swift boat attacks revealed his clumsy political skills. Everything good about the Kerry campaign--its phenomenal fundraising, the passions it harnessed--derived mainly from Democrats' Bush-hatred, not from Kerry himself.
In the midst of Kerry's typically windy John Roberts speech, he paused and looked up to the Senate rostrum. "Mr. President, how much time do I have left?" Kerry asked. "The gentleman's time has expired," came the reply. And so it has.
Not true, Nixon won more states than JFK. The winner is the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes. No other factor impacts the direct outcome.
Must have been a recent former House member that was preciding with that lingo.
"His feeble response to last summer's swift boat attacks revealed his clumsy political skills."
Rove Credits Swiftvets With 'Energizing' Bush Vote (Thank You Karl Rove!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345603/posts
I've asked you about 1,000,000 times not to ping me.
Now you can post your rant back to me, calling me unpatriot and a non-supporter of the military.
Everybody's seen it.
Why would you object to an article about Karl Rove?
Beside, you told me "Kerry is done"
And he's not.
Go back to sleep.
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
Kerry Hangs Back From Disclosure to All
The NY Sun June 9, 2005 Josh Gerstein
http://www.nysun.com/article/15135
Did Kerry really release Navy records?
Chicagao Sun Times June 9, 2005 THOMAS H. LIPSCOMB
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-lip09.html
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://tonkin.spymac.net
There is a backup site
if the 1st url is unavailable.
http://stophanoikerry.150m.com
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!
Then why did you ping me?
Unless, of course, it's just to BAIT and start a fight.
As usual.
Similarly if 60,000 votes flipped between Wisconsin, Washington, Minnesota Bush would have won an electoral landslide.
I nominate Coleman for VP in 2008. Maybe he can bring MN and WI with him.
"Then why did you ping me?"
To remind you of 2 things.
1) Kerry is STILL running for President in 2008
2) Kerry is STILL a member of the US Senate, depite the fact he's in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html
Bush's vote margin in Ohio in 2004 was almost exactly the same as Kennedy's official margin in the popular vote in the country as a whole in 1960. (But that's only when the votes for unpledged electors in Alabama are put in Kennedy's column, and when the vote fraud in Illinois and Texas is ignored.)
I don't care.
So don't ping me about it again.
The surviving Democratic also-rans other than Gore (namely McGovern, Mondale, and Dukakis) all have a better chance of winning the 2008 election than Kerry does.
hanoi kerry IS running again in 2008 PING
Read my tagline and look for the Move On "FReepers"
who don't care what hanoi kerry is up to.
Or that hanoi kerry is behind the anti-war movement.
Also this week
In college speech,
Kerry upbraids Bush administration
Tests waters for presidential run
9/20/05
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488280/posts
Glad to see that Americans are behind the expose of the hanoi kerry crowd.
From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org
9/24/05
I will be filing Audio Field Reports throughout this weekend's
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Please note that I will be updating these reports several times
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Also, we just heard that C-SPAN is scheduled to cover our rally
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Thank you so much for making it possible for me to stand and
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and their mission!
Steve Elliott
P.S. When you listen to the audio report, I'd like to get your
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rallies. Click here:
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No! No! Just let that halfwitted, sh*t for brains, inept piece of dung, run til Teresa's inheritance goes dry. Let that face remind us of the liberal democrats ASSperations.
Bush won by 120 thousand votes.
If Bush had 2,120,000 votes and Kerry had 2,000,000 votes in Ohio that results in Bush winning by 120 thousand votes.
Now if 60 thousand people who voted for Bush had instead voted for Kerry what happesns ot the totals.
First Bush loses 60,000 votes. Take 60,000 from Bush's 2,120,00 and that leaves Bush with 2060,000 votes. Secondly Kerry had gained those 60,000 votes. So we add 60,000 votes to Kerry's 2,000,000 votes. That gives Kerry 2,060,00 votes to Bush's 2,060,000 votes.
That makes it a tie.
BTTT!!!!!!
Thanks for the ping!
I need to repeat, then, what occurred in Iraq this past December or January (can't remember what month) when Kerry went there. I have this from many eyewitnesses.
At Al Tajii in Iraq is a 2 part base; Camp Cook, American soldiers, and the other half is for Iraqi soldiers, where they are trained, etc.
One day the soldiers in Camp Cook noticed the security had been beefed up. The reason became clear when a Blackhawk helicopter landed and out steps Hanoi Kerry. One of the eyewitness remarked to me that Hanoi is even uglier in person than on TV, to which I informed him, "The election was over so he stopped the botox shots."
Hanoi Kerry did not even LOOK at, much less acknowledge our soldiers. He proceeded over to the Iraqi side and attended a ceremony there.
When Hanoi Kerry returned, he, still not even acknowledging our soldiers, told the brass he wanted to be flown over Fallujah! Now this was before Fallujah had been cleaned out, and made it necessary for 2 Apache helicopters to fly under his Blackhawk to protect him! This formation is well known by the terrorists; it's something they look for. Fortunately for the pilots and crew of the Apache helicopters, there was no incident.
When Hanoi Kerry returned after putting those soldiers in danger for a whim, he again, never even looked at our soldiers, but left.
Our soldiers there acknowledged Hanoi Kerry with a salute, but it was a salute using only one finger.
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