Posted on 11/01/2006 2:52:14 AM PST by YaYa123
WASHINGTON - Frustration over the prolonged Iraq conflict exploded onto the political scene yesterday as Republicans pounced on John Kerry for a botched joke and the Democrat slammed back at President Bush's "broken policy." With tensions escalating and the stakes high just a week before the midterm elections, the President led a GOP chorus demanding the Massachusetts senator apologize for a remark about how the uneducated "get stuck in Iraq."
But a furious Kerry refused to back down, saying he would never apologize for taking on the President - and that the criticism against him was orchestrated by "assorted right-wing nut jobs."
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I feel ashamed to nitpick your fine post, but Mary Jo didn't drown. She suffocated to death after being abandoned in a submerged car. The full horror of Kennedy's actions are that Mary Jo was still alive while Teddy was busy doing damage control.
Rovember Surprise! Awesome!
"Now, let's talk about education. If...." Everyone on tv is leaving out that critical statement!
Love your graphic! Helps support my good mood this fine morning.
you can "nitpick" me anytime you like!
It's all a brilliant plan by Kerry. If The Democrats don't pick up any new seats in Congress and actually lose some in the Senate and the House, he expects that in 2008 he will ride a wave of liberal discontent into the White House.
God only knows where he got this from.
It wasn't a 'botched' joke! It was an insensitive and un-funny joke! It was a joke that was designed to put Kerry's current audience in the same camp that he is in at the expense of our soldiers in Iraq. Only problem, is the rest of the world was also listening.......
Schadenfreude! I loved watching the two young women slightly behind and flanking J'effn.
They tried REALLY hard to keep poker faces, but you could see that they knew how bad it was and had to just stand there. Both women's eyes widened just slightly and they looked uncomfortable and unhappy.
The one on our left actually tried to make eye contact with the taller one but the taller one was looking off to the other side, possibly wishing she could escape.
The weak and startled response from the audience finally tipped off even such a thick dolt as 'effn and he scratched around and found something to say in "support" of our poor abused troops. That gave the audience (and the two women) some relief as they could then respond to something a little less toxic. Even then the applause was weak--like 'effen.
It seems that the Democrats have stuff ol' John Forbes into a closet to keep him away from a microphone. My guess is that he doesn't surface again until late next week.
Coincidence?
I think NOT!
I'm cautiously optimistic- I'm going to go out on a limb, and predict we will win- possibly, win big.
Here's my brief report on what I saw with Georgia's Advance Voting Monday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728963/posts?page=20#20
And some followup here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728963/posts?page=28#28
I've thought over what I saw, and I finally realized what my first impression of the crowd was...
"These are all talk radio listeners."
So the Republican base is motivated- highly motivated.
Stay tuned...
"botched" versus "mangled"
I think Kerry advisors must have nixed "mangled" because that's the insult the MSM has reserved for insulting Bush.
True. You've got to keep your insults straight!
That is so coooool! (Watching with anticipation.)
I wonder what's so hard about apologizing and putting this episode behind him and the dems?
This is so simple a 2 year old could see it. I guess that's above Kerry's capacity though.......
I sure hope I'm right... in the off-term election in 2002, we threw the Democrats out of Georgia. I wrote about it, live, on Free Dominion- "An Earthquake just rolled through Georgia."
In the 2004 election, I was flabberghasted at the size, and friendliness, of the crowd at the polling place. It was like a camp meeting, and Georgia was a blowout for President Bush.
Lordy, I hope I'm interperting what I saw Monday correctly... I guess we'll find out soon enough. We've had 14 years of the Clinton's Politics of Personal Destruction- it's time to put a stop to it, and go back to civil debate again.
Yes, the silence from the vast majority of Democrats is deafening. Why? BECAUSE SECRETLY THIS IS THE WAY ALMOST ALL OF THEM FEEL ABOUT THE MILITARY.
On a good day, they can barely hide their contempt for those who serve. That's why military members overwhelmingly vote Republican--the loathing is mutual.
The Democrats aren't sorry John Kerry said it, they're sorry he said it so close to an election.
...and was caught on tape for all (including the "right-wing nutjobs") to see!
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