Posted on 11/01/2006 7:59:01 AM PST by truthandlife
Sen. John Kerry has canceled plans to campaign for several fellow Democrats after controversy over his comments to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq."
President Bush's 2004 presidential rival -- who explained Tuesday that his comments were a "botched joke" targeting Bush -- will not appear with Pennsylvania Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate Bob Casey on Wednesday night in Philadelphia, as originally planned, a Democratic official said.
"I would be surprised if you see him welcomed out there anywhere," the official said, "and certainly not in a race that is meaningful."
Strategists at both the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees made a point to their campaigns that the flap is a distraction they don't need right now.
Kerry's comments provide an opportunity for Republicans to go on the offensive on national security issues -- a winning GOP strategy in 2002 and 2004 that has been blunted by the increasingly violent situation in Iraq.
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Kerry did? No, the campaigners did...........
Couldn't face all the tar and feathers that were waiting for him. Seems to me if you said something like what he said, you ought to stand up like a man and take your medicine.
What remarks??? All I get is the New York Times and Washington Post. Did John Kerry make some remarks???
It's funny how all of the MSM "clearly" sees that Kerry was targeting Bush when no one else does.
I hope someone photographs him windsurfing instead of campaigning.
The Post had it hidden on the inside of the A section today. I started laughing when I saw where they decided to run it. You know they had huge hand-wringing meetings over whether to run it, realized they'd look stupid if they didn't, so decided to hide discreetly on the same page with one of their routine hatchet jobs on Allen's campaign.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728906/posts
Kerry could have nipped this in the bud if he had just issued a press release the next day apologizing for the comment without condition.
But like liberals everywhere, he is always fighting the last battle instead of figuring out how to fight the current one. Libs treat Iraq like Vietnam instead of ... Iraq. And Kerry, having been ripped by his own side by waiting to respond to the Swifties (not that anything different would have mattered), decided to immediately counterattack here, instead of taking a moment and thinking through the consequences of doing such.
They're clearly liars.
Kerry just reminded millions of voters that the dems royally suck.
"Thanks, Mr. Smartypants." :-)
Awww...
Why would he cancel his campaigning just because he criticized Bush's policy in Iraq?
Shouldn't Bush cancel his campaigning instead? And apologize while he's at it?
Lurch did not misspeak, he delivered his speech as written.
BUT NOT THE ACTUAL QUOTE!
They just spewed out the line they were given.
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