Posted on 10/08/2006 1:40:37 PM PDT by bitt
DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House.
Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said he is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear." The group, financed by Texas conservatives, ran commercials questioning his claim of being a decorated Vietnam veteran -- the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2004.
"We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
The senator said his response to the commercials was not strong enough.
"We thought the fact that the truth was out there was enough," he said. "Clearly it wasn't."
Those same conservatives have formed another group this year -- Economic Freedom Fund -- and are attacking Democrats across the country. Part of the campaign includes $500,000 to bash Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, who is seeking re-election in the 3rd District in central Iowa.
Boswell is being challenged by state Republican Senate President Jeff Lamberti of Ankeny in a race that has included significant cash from both parties.
Boswell retired after 20 years in the Army, including two tours in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. But the conservative group has chosen to focus on issues ranging from higher taxes to immigration. Part of the group's money is also funding an automated telephone campaign against Boswell.....
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"Unnngh".
Wonder if John Kerry will be tossing that football around again, hoping we get him confused with John Kennedy?
The 2008 election should be a barrel of laughs. I can hardly wait.
Someone just posted about that Kerry comment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716053/posts
Did he serve in Vietnam? This is the first I heard of this...
OK I'm confused..
We have the Swift BOAT Veterans, we have the Veterans For The Truth, and we now have the Swift VOTE Veterans for Truth????
Someone please do a flowchart or diagram or program so I can keep up.
That rat-bastard Kerry will never learn that the people in "fly-over country" aren't stupid like they are in Massachusetts and California.
here's some MORE stupid people -
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by Mary Howe Kiraly
http://www.opednews.com
URGENT, WE NEED YOUR HELP.
The Election Defense Alliance is hiring Zogby to do independent exit polls in November. Polls that can't be changed when the election turns out to be the opposite from the exit polls like the 2004 elections. This is being organized by Jonathan Simon and his associates. Jonathan is the statistician who captured images of the 2004 exit polls which showed Kerry won. The polls were changed after Bush won. We need independent exit polls this election more than to verify election results. We urgently need your help to fund this very expensive effort. Please give as generously as you can because our democracy depends on safeguarding our elections. " Bwahahahahah!
"• The Wendy's fast-food stop the Edwards' made - with the Kerrys in tow - during the campaign, on their wedding anniversary:"
"We all ate. Teresa had chili, John Kerry a hamburger. John and I ordered our usual: number one combos ... At the next stop we were asked about the gourmet meal we had eaten. It was great. Wendy's always is. Not Wendy's, the reporter said. The five-star gourmet meal delivered to the bus after the Wendy's stop, how was that meal? We had no idea what he was talking about ... It turned out that the Kerrys had never eaten at a Wendy's, and although they were willing to go with us, they made sure they had a backup - a quite nice backup, willing to deliver to a bus - if they hated it."
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061008/1029694.asp
Elizabeth had "her usual 'number one combo' (supersized?)
...Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008......just thought it would be nice to have his ass handed to him again. :')
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5886
"The Fairy Tale Democrats
September 25th, 2006
Like some fabled vampire jerkily rising from his crypt, John F. Kerry crept back in the news, madly signaling a new run for the Democrat Party nomination. As in previous revivals, Kerry is banking on his faithful Teresa, who sprinkled her life-giving Heinz ketchup money all over his stiff body to bring it back to life. Teresa even does a darned good imitation of Count Dracula’s sidekick Igor.
Mythic thinking
If I seem to be fascinated by Kerry’s resemblance to Count Dracula, it is because mythic thinking plays such a big role in the Democratic Party. John Kerry has been driven by one supreme fantasy all his adult life: to be just like JFK. In pursuit of that dream Kerry goes through all kinds of amazing transformations. Unlike the rest of us who just get older day by day, in the 2004 campaign John Forbes Kerry seemed to grow magically younger. Starting out looking gaunt and tired, his cheeks suddenly botoxed out, his hair morphed from grey to black, and his body hiccupped into he-man shape. It was awesome. The Dems were selling a fraud, of course, but the thing is that they expected their voters to believe it. Most of them went right along. Gosh, they must have marveled, our guy John looks better every day!
Recently Kerry has been theatrically threatening to “kick their ass from one end of America to the other”—referring to his former Swiftboat commanders and comrades—if they to dare to question his heroic record during those three fabled months in the Mekong Delta. Apparently Kerry’s media advisors have called for an Alpha Male impression early on in the campaign. The candidate is doing his best.
Bill Clinton notoriously marched a group of US Marines up the West Lawn, after his popularity crashed early in his first term. By putting media cameras on top of the hilly slope of the grass lawn, our fearless leader could be made to look much bigger than all the real soldiers marching up the hill behind him. As I remember it, after several heroic media scams along those lines his poll numbers rebounded. It’s a sort of tradition. After all, LBJ finagled a Silver Star to jump-start his political career in Texas. He also got away with it. But Clinton and LBJ knew they were faking. It seems that John Kerry really believes his own story of the moment.
We sorely need presidents who can tell the difference between truth and fakery. For that reason, the return of Count Kerry is pretty scary. Here’s a man who has been carrying his old Navy hat in his briefcase for almost forty years, only taking it out to share with a few selected reporters (and possibly for his own private delectation).
Kerry scripted his victory speech at the 2004 National Convention as a pretend-USN officer coming aboard a pretend-USN warship, making a pretend-salute, and uttering the brave words, “I’m John Kerry and I am reporting for duty!” It made one cringe with embarrassment"........
there's more....hehheh.....
"We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
(That's cause he wants everybody in the dark.)
Ditto
Why yes. Yes it is...
Hey John Boy. Put up your records or STFU.
geez, now Kerry has to change his script and the name of his "plan"...due to NK popping off their bomb...but it's okay, because THIS is Bush's fault, TOO! /s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716064/posts
"I know enough about Iowa citizens.."
~~~
"Is this where I get me a hunting license?" (John F'n Kerry, 2004)
"get ready folks, he's gonna be runnin'..........."
The thought of that makes me LOL for real!
This time let's swift boot him. ;o)
LOL!
That's GREAT!
GMTA...check my post above. ;o)
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