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Posted on 11/03/2006 12:45:11 PM PST by meg88
Kerry's words do damage to Democrats
We must ask Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry the same question David Letterman asked Hugh Grant after Grant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute on a New York City street: "What the hell were you thinking?"
As most people know by now, Democrat Kerry, just a week before the crucial mid-term elections that could see his party take back control of the House of Representatives and, possibly, the Senate, made what can only be categorized as a massive blunder. Kerry's off-the-cuff remark has been interpreted as saying members of the military who served -- or are currently serving -- in Iraq are not particularly smart.
Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse, but in the last throes of an election cycle in which the Republicans were spinning into chaos, the Massachusetts senator gave them an opportunity to bring out that old saw about those wanting to get the military out of Iraq being anti-troops.
In the hours after Kerry's unbelievably idiotic statement, here in New Hampshire the Republican distraction machine was moving faster than the speed dial on a phone call-blocking program.
Republican incumbent 1st District Congressman Jeb Bradley issued a statement Wednesday calling for Kerry to apologize and calling on his Democratic opponent Carol Shea-Porter to join with him in calling for the apology.
Even Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Coburn is attempting to make political hay with Kerry's statement. He urged incumbent Democrat John Lynch to return the $4,000 Kerry donated to Lynch's campaign.
Kerry, with a single thoughtless statement, has breathed new life into faltering Republican campaigns all across the country.
His lack of thought, his monumentally poor sense of timing and his personal arrogance as exhibited in his reaction to the furor his remarks have created should be a clear indication to members of the Democratic Party's leadership that Kerry's days as a standard-bearer for the party -- and, perhaps, even his days as a senator from Massachusetts -- should be numbered.
-- Portsmouth Herald
Off the cuff? Didn't Kerry claim it was a planned joke which he just left a couple words out of? You can leave words out of a script, but how do you leave words out of an off the cuff remark?
Thank goodness His Supreme Arrogance never understood "Pride goes before destruction" so he remains the gift that keeps giving.
Yeah, it was Leno. Letterman was talking to Cary Grant. ;-)
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It was ONLY a Joke Malfunction.
"Pride goes before destruction"
So very true. His press conference that he did the day after was the real killer. It was one of the most profound displays of political self-immolation I've ever seen.
Mike Hatch the Dim governor candidate for MN did the same yesterday by calling a woman journalist "a GOP whore".
Kerry danced around the statement, claiming it was a bad joke gone worse, but in the last throes of an election cycle in which the Republicans were spinning into chaos, the Massachusetts senator gave them an opportunity to bring out that old saw about those wanting to get the military out of Iraq being anti-troops.
In the hours after Kerry's unbelievably idiotic statement, here in New Hampshire the Republican distraction machine was moving faster than the speed dial on a phone call-blocking program.
No bias here, no sir...
/what goes here again?
Is that fact about Hatch posted on FR? Thanks!
"It was ONLY a Joke Malfunction."
Yeah but the Dem Campaign plane still exploded in midair and cost millions of lives.
Earlier this week David Letterman claimed Kerry was such a bad politician he was losing an election he wasn't even running in. . . . . .
Yep!
It's AMAZING how all these frickin' idiot Carry water-kerrying dipsticks try to twist and turn to get everyone to believe this "botched joke"!
"if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq"
If you slack off, don't do your homework, make no effort to be smart, you won't do well and you'll get stuck in Iraq!
There you go... That's EXACTLY what he said! Where's the joke? Where's the misinterpreting?
He couldn't have done a better job than if he had stepped into a bucket of gasoline and lit it on fire!
And now... the only response I haven't seen posted in response this whole event is....
"You should put some ice on that, John."
Did you notice on Hannity and Dickwad last night how upset Alan was--it was that desperate liberal panick when they realize that their dreams are going up in smoke. I kind of like when we dangle the carrot in front of them and then snatch it away at the end--actually Kerry did that for them, all by himself!
I remember Donna saying that......now I know why, she was referring to jon carry...
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