Kerry Says UBL Tape Cost Him the Election (Geraldo with the Scoop in Little Rock!)

Fox News ^ | 11/19/04 | Geraldo Rivera

[gopwinsin04]

Senator John Kerry believes he lost the 2004 presidential election becuase of the video from Usama Bin Laden that surfaced just days before the November 2 election.

He told FOX News senior correspondant Geraldo Rivera that he believes the tape may have scared the American electorate.

Rivera spoke to Kerry in a holding room to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

'Tough luck, Senator,' Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrats election loss.

Rivera said Kerry responded by saying, 'It was that Usama tape-it scared them.' [the American people]

Kerry said that the tape came out too late for his side to rebut and the Democratic campaign could not counteract in time for the Tuesday election.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Wow..for me this is a two strike article. I can't stand either the reporter or the subject.

Kerry is such a loser. He didn't lose because of anything "Raghead" bin Laden had to say. He lost because he IS a loser and he has been revealed as such by the Swiftboat heroes and all the veterans of the Vietnam era. He's a scumbag and will always be one.

As for Geraldo, he's a punk. I ran into him once on Siesta Key Florida (Sarasota). He and his "hangers-on" are absolute boors without any redeeming qualities. The only thing bigger than his nose is his ego.

This is probably my favorite picture of the a~~hole.
I only wish I'd been the one credited for clobbering him.

Ain't it the bleedin' truth!

[Dave278]

Well... the idea that OBL endorsed the F'N one probably did hurt him a bit. Bush still would have won w/o the tapes comeing out.

[Twinkie]

The truth is that bin Laden told us to vote for Kerry.
What an albatross to have to wear around his neck. The
terrorist actually threatened us to vote for Kerry! So,
the DU type cowards voted as bin Laden told them. Most
of them are in blue states, though, and bin Laden promised
not to hurt them. Actually, the only SCARED faction were
the ones bin Laden was able to SCARE into voting for Kerry.
- Of course, if bin Laden's Al Quaida hits a blue state,
Madelaine Albright can appear on a morning news show and
say, "He cheated." (like she said about Kim Jong Il) That
will make everyone feel better.

[isom35]

havig a nutjob for a wife didnt help a lot either.

[MEGoody]

Of course, John, it was the UBL tape. Your loss had nothing to do with your lack of morals or inability to hold a single position on an issue for more than 5 minutes.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I HOPE it scared them. They NEEDED scaring. Too many people "Have Forgotten" in our country. And it's only been about 40 months now.

[kitkat]

Yesterday Kerry's excuse was that an assistant gave him bad advice, per Boston Globe:

***Another blunder came on Aug. 9, when Kerry was asked whether he would have voted for the Iraq war resolution even knowing Iraq had no WMD. Yes, Kerry answered, saying it was "the right authority for a president to have" -- further muddying an Iraq stance that was already hard to explain. The candidate didn't hear the entirety of the question, the Kerry camp has since suggested. A Newsweek postmortem of the campaign, meanwhile, says Kerry blamed Stephanie Cutter, his thirtysomething communications director, for urging him to answer yes to a question they knew was coming.***

Is anybody keeping track of the number of excuses this loser can come up with.

[Miss Marple]

Interestingly, Harold Ickes (Was anyone ever named more appropriately?)was just on Linda Vester's show. HIS liine is that the Bush campaign scared the people into voting for President Bush. (This drew boos from the auience in rather large number.)

It seems to me that the Rats are trying to come up with an excuse, but every one they choose causes them to admit to another flaw.

First it was morals and values, and blaming the right-wing Christians. Then they realized that this wouldn't work because it sounded like they were admitting to immorality, plus it alienated the entire south.

Some of them then started talking about the Swift Boat adds, but that called attention to their sorry history with national defense.

Then Kerry starts saying that the electorate was scared of the OBL tape. The problem with this is that it calls half the country cowards.

So now Ickes is saying that Bush scared people into voting for him...apparently to try and convince the public that we were duped by evil Karl Rove and that is why we were scared. This one isn't going to fly, either, judging from the audience reaction to his statement.

[puppetz]

Senator John Kerry believes he lost the 2004 presidential election becuase of the video from Usama Bin Laden that surfaced just days before the November 2 election.

That and the fact his traitorous conduct toward 'Nam vets surfaced.

Tarayza surfacing like a great white whale periodically didn't help either ;)

[F.J. Mitchell]

Osama was just trying to help you win, Senator Kerry. How was he to know that his dimwitted tape would cause the defeat of his preffered candidate.

Just like you Senator-Osama under estimated the intelligence and the guts of Americans.

THe similiarity between yourself and Osama, doesn't stop at being tall, swarthy, big nosed, arrogant and irrational-you are both absolute losers, in total denial.

[talleyman]

Revenge of the goose?

[Churchillspirit]

Must stand up for Geraldo on this one.

Like so many people, Geraldo was changed by the events of 9/11. He gave up a comfortable and lucrative job to get involved in reporting the war - first in Afghanistan then Iraq.

Got to give the guy some credit for that.

[HateBill]

Kerry said that the tape came out too late for his side to rebut and the Democratic campaign could not counteract in time for the Tuesday election.

How long did it take for the Dem. campaign to "rebut it" -- five seconds -- by saying the tape just proved that the Bush Administration took their eye off the ball of pursuing bin Laden to go to Iraq and that the tape was proof of how incompetent Bush was in "outsourcing" the hunt for bin Laden?

So it certainly did counteract it, only no one bought it! And no amount of time will have enabled the Democrats to convince Americans that George Bush did not take the War on Terror seriously, or that Kerry would be more successful.

[redcountyrepublican]

DIG! DIG! DIG!

OOP's that one won't work! Better try another Zogby (Special Sauce) Poll!

[danamco]

Senator John Kerry believes he lost the 2004 presidential election becuase of the video from Usama Bin Laden that surfaced just days before the November 2 election.


I thought that the tape was used to do a "Spain" election!?!

[jriemer]

I thought he had a plan!

Looks like the plan worked. NOT!

[red_is_beautiful]

HEY, IT'S BUSH'S FAULT THAT IT'S BIN LADENS'S FAULT!

[Honorary Serb]

Maybe. Kerry/Soros also may have lost the election at least in part due to the Serbian-American vote (especially the 80,000 in Ohio) and the anti-same-sex "marriage" vote.

If Kerry/Soros lost the election due to their Serbophobia and their backing of the "gay" agenda, that is simple justice!!!!

[loveliberty2]

As I said on another thread on this subject:

How ridiculous!

Those of us who voted for President Bush know that our decision was based on Bush's record of consistency in defending the principles of liberty, and of his authenticity.

Isn't it just like the vascillating Kerry to blame his sound defeat on a shadowy character in the Middle East, rather than admitting that he tried to mask his long-held anti-war sentiment, his decades-long distrust of the Intelligence community, and his welfare-state mentality which American voters rejected.

While he may have displayed a flip-flop tendency about current and recent matters, we who researched his 70's statements and writings found him to be totally committed to the same ideas he had advanced in his very first run for the Congress way back in the early 70's.

In his Harvard Crimson interview prior to that campaign, he stated that he believed that the CIA should be abolished and that American troops should be dispersed throughout the world ONLY AT THE DIRECTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS!!!!!

Does his 20-year Senate record indicate that he has changed his position on these two vital issues? NO! His voting record confirms that the anti-Vietnam war Kerry is the authentic Kerry who presented himself to 2004 voters as a candidate for strong intelligence and strong defense, and a majority of American voters recognized the REAL John Kerry and voted against him.

Osama had nothing to do with it!

[JLO]

"Why didn't FOX admit that the Swift Boat Vets
sunk Hanoi Kerry's boat?"

===
LOL - John O'Neill came on Fox and pretty much said the Swift Boat Veterans DID sink his boat. You didn't miss that, did you? It was on a week or so ago.

(PS, Tonk, please see a ping to you from me about Ragtime Cowgirl, will ya?)