Wait, Now We All Take John Kerry At His Word? (Romney Camp Lying?)

National Review - Campaign Spot ^ | February 4, 2008 | Jim Geraghty

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Monday, February 04, 2008

MITT ROMNEY, JOHN MCCAIN

Wait, Now We All Take John Kerry At His Word?

Team Romney is insulting my intelligence when they call their rival  “half of the proposed McCain-Kerry '04 ticket," as they are today in press releases. (I note another NRO voice, on his radio program on Friday night, approvingly played audio of John Kerry claiming that John McCain approached him about being his running mate, not the other way around.)

First, the McCain stories were one of the first stories covered on the Kerry Spot, and we noted that McCain denied his interest every time it came up. When Kerry started claiming that McCain approached him, others noted that everyone around McCain describes it as Kerry approaching McCain, not the other way around, and Newsweek's account is that Kerry "badly wanted" McCain as his running mate.

Didn't all of us spend a certain amount of time in 2004 making the case to the American public that Senator John "cut off ears, cut off heads... razed villages in fashion reminiscent of 'Jen-jis' Khan" Kerry was not a trustworthy source?

Now that John McCain is the target du jour, we suddenly find John Kerry a man whose word is good enough to settle the issue? Come on.

When Romney's campaign and those who strongly prefer Romney start suggesting that his assertion is enough to settle the issue, they're either ignoring or attempting to undo a significant amount of effort — by conservative journalists, and in some cases, themselves - put into obliterating the credibility of John Kerry not too long ago.

02/04 11:48 AM

 

[greyfoxx39]

Saint Mitt of the Free Republic lying? Say it isn't so!

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Ping

[bmwcyle]

Mitt is no saint but McCain works for the lower team.

[traderrob6]

The worry is the fact that the left thought (and rightly so) that he WAS approachable.

[dead]

If Kerry says one thing and McCain says the opposite, it's a sort of lying scumbag stalemate. There are no laws of logic, physics, or mathematics that can figure out which one is lying.

The odds are that there's some nuance that allows them both to be lying simultaneously, despite the apparent contradiction.

[tanaka]

McCain considered being VP for Kerry. He also held discussions in 2001 about switching officially to Democratic Party. While details may be open to interpretation (how many phone calls between the camps, who made first official call etc) the faact remain that McCain was in discussions with Democratic Party.

[Capt. Jake]

Who knows who approached whom, but the real problem for McCain is that most of us believe that he actually would consider being Kerry’s running mate against an incumbent, war time, GOP president.

[colorcountry]

Romney camp lying?

Do bears sleep in the woods?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

McCain? Kerry? Difference?

[elizabetty]

Wait, this is important HOW?

People in MCCain's camp have admitted THEY SOUGHT OUT KERRY.

[Hoodat]

So what was the lie? You accused the Romney camp of lying - what was the lie?

[TheThirdRuffian]

Mitt and Romney are not opponents, merely competitive teammates.

[ansel12]

Romney actually has a history of supporting democrat candidates over republicans (exclusively)in three different states.

When he decided to run for office in Massachusetts is when he decided to register republican.

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ping

[willgolfforfood]

‘zactly...

[TheThirdRuffian]

The lie about being Romney being a life long hunter?

The lie he told about his family friend who died in a botched back-alley abortion that made him pro-abortion? (This was before he became pro-life, or maybe after, but while pretending to be pro-abortion — or whatever his story is today.)

[Deb]

Romney only knows what he’s told. McCain knows what he did.

[Hoodat]

Where is your evidence?

[DannyTN]

Bishop Mitt strikes again.

[Checkers]

“Now that John McCain is the target du jour, we suddenly find John Kerry a man whose word is good enough to settle the issue? Come on.”

Both are caulk-sucking liars who dumped their first wives for a richer, second wife.

It makes sense that McCain would eff the GOP; IT’S WHO HE IS.