Posted on 04/04/2007 2:59:13 AM PDT by Lovebloggers
Jonathan Singer: There’s a story in The Hill, I think on Tuesday, by Bob Cusack on the front page of the paper talking about how John McCain’s people — John Weaver — had approached Tom Daschle and a New York Congressman, I don’t remember his name, about switching parties. And I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what your discussions were with him in 2004, how far it went, who approached whom... if there was any “there” there.
John Kerry: I don’t know all the details of it. I know that Tom, from a conversation with him, was in conversation with a number of Republicans back then. It doesn’t surprise me completely because his people similarly approached me to engage in a discussion about his potentially being on the ticket as Vice President. So his people were active — let’s put it that way.
Singer: Okay. And just to confirm, you said it, but this is something they approached you rather than...
Kerry: Absolutely correct. John Weaver of his shop... [JK aswers phone]
Do you have enough brain? You believe everything you read, i.e, according to John Kerry?
Uh huh.
Who is this John Kerry... did he serve in Vietnam or something... Didn’t he write that book “Dreaming of My Christmas in Cambodia”
Hahahaha like I believe anything John (Only retards serve in Iraq) Kerry.
Personally I will wait until there is some actual evidence that this happened.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday he did not believe Democratic candidate John Kerry, a friend and Senate colleague, was weak on defense or would compromise national security if elected president.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4555261/
He wouldn’t take a stand with the swifties either, and actually went as far to speak out against them.
So not a John McCain fan, and while I agree that Kerry lives in the fantasy world he creates for himself, I had no problem believing this at all.
The Hill article:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.
In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.
Democrats had contacted Jeffords and then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) in the early months of 2001 about switching parties, but in McCain’s case, they said, it was McCain’s top strategist who came to them.
At the end of their March 31, 2001 lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Bethesda, Md., Downey said Weaver asked why Democrats hadn’t asked McCain to switch parties.
Downey, a well-connected lobbyist, said he was stunned.
“You’re really wondering?” Downey said he told Weaver. “What do you mean you’re wondering?”
“Well, if the right people asked him,” Weaver said, according to Downey, adding that he responded, “The calls will be made. Who do you want?” Weaver this week said he did have lunch with Downey that spring, pointing out that he and Downey “are very good friends.”
He claims, however, that Downey is grossly mischaracterizing their exchange: “We certainly didn’t discuss in any detail about the senator’s political plans and any discussion about party-switchers, generically, would have been limited to the idle gossip which was all around the city about the [Democrats’] aggressive approach about getting any GOP senator to switch in order to gain the majority. Nothing more or less than that.”
Downey said Weaver is well aware that their discussion was much more than typical Washington chit-chat.
“Within seconds” of arriving home from his lunch with Weaver, Downey said he was on the phone to the most powerful Democrats in town. One of the first calls he made was to then-Senate Minority Leader Daschle.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-abandoned-gop-2007-03-28.html
I have a hard time believing JK about anything. Thank God he wasn’t elected POTUS
We're talking about John McCain here. You think he'd be afraid to call Kerry a liar?
I did a search and didn’t see it.
Hopefully someone will ask McQueeg about this and we can see what he says....
Also, this is not the first time I've heard this. during the campaign it was batted about and before jumping jim jumped there were stories about him switching parties along with a few others.
mcinsane has NEVER been a republican. He's always been a front for the dims.
The Newsweek article:
The “Outlandish” McCain Offer. Kerry’s courtship of Senator John McCain to be his running mate was longer-standing and more intense than previously reported. As far back as August 2003, Kerry had taken McCain to breakfast to
sound him out to run on a unity ticket. McCain batted away the idea as not serious, but Kerry, after he wrapped up the nomination in March, went back after McCain a half-dozen more times. “To show just how sincere he was, he
made an outlandish offer,” Newsweek’s Thomas reports. “If McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice president to include secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed, ‘You’re out of your
mind. I don’t even know if it’s constitutional, and it certainly wouldn’t sell.’” Kerry was thwarted and furious. “Why the f-— didn’t he take it? After what the Bush people did to him...’”
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-04-2004/0002356222&EDATE=
So this is probably Kerry reinventing history yet once again.
McCain discussed it with him though, so who knows what was discussed.
John is toast in the Republican party but he’s already talking about a third party bid. He would do it out of spite to ensure a defeat for whoever is the Republican nominee. He’s a real piece of work.
Why are you believing some democrats? Did you hear this from Senator McCain directly? I am shocked that you would smear a very good Senator and war hero. I guess you might be from DU. If you are, that explains a lot.
First off, I will never, ever, vote for McLame. Having said that, given McLame’s poor finish in the first quarter of dollar raising, given the reception he’s received by the Dem pimp media in Iraq, and now this story...
There’s a feeling of a political attack going on here.
This?
McCain has been a POS for a very long time.
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