Posted on 09/25/2010 8:00:39 AM PDT by raccoonradio
A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation.
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday.
Conservative political blogger William Jacobson, who writes Legal Insurrection, immediately pounced on Kerry’s comments, saying that attitude is why voters are looking to shake up Capitol Hill by electing upstart candidates such as U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
“It just continues the Democrats’ theme that the reason people are upset is because they don’t understand. They’re not smart enough. That sort of rhetoric just gets people even more upset,” said Jacobson.
Democratic consultant Phil Johnston, former chairman of the state party, jumped to Kerry’s defense, saying, “That’s absurd. He’s just making the point that people have real lives to lead and most people are not spending a lot of time worrying about politics, particularly in a tough economy. I’ve known John Kerry for 35 years and he doesn’t look down on people.”
Kerry made the remarks on voters following questions about U.S. Rep Barney Frank’s re-election campaign and queries about securing federal funding for the Hub hospital.
“I think a lot of the anger today - while it’s appropriate because Washington is broken - is not directed at the right people,” said Kerry. “Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what we’re doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what we’re doing, it frankly makes sense.”
In the interview, Kerry added that voters should be mad at stonewalling Republicans and “big money” in politics instead, referring to a bill blocked by Republicans Thursday that would reveal corporate and union leaders who fund big-bucks political ads.
He went on to blame the legislative logjam in Washington, D.C., for fewer federal dollars sent to the state.
John Feehery, a Washington D.C.-based Republican consultant, said Kerry’s comments mark yet another embarrassing stumble for the gaffe-prone senior senator. In 2006, the former presidential candidate had to apologize for a statement he made at a California college that U.S. students who did not study hard and stay in school would end up “stuck in Iraq.”
“I think that arrogance sums up why John Kerry didn’t get elected president,” Feehery said. “He’s out of touch.”
Come on down to Texas John, rub elbows with some of the common people you're so much better than.
LMAO ain't THAT the truth!
That is the dirty little secret isn’t it?The dems just haven’t had the same control since the 3 networks and newspapers controlled the narratve.Why do you think they want to control the internet and why Foxnews is the enemy?Democrats just can not deal with a truely free flow of information because then they can’t tell the people how to properly think.
What a miserable piece of work is the senior senator from Mass.
So Kerry wants to make this “clear, crystal clear?”
"We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”Can't argue with that. It's how Kerry got elected.
Johnson said: “I’ve known John Kerry for 35 years and he doesn’t look down on people.”
Well I have had the misfortune of seeing John Kerry in action over the last 15 years or so and he is exactly that condescending. Howie Carr is going to have a field day with that remark.
Not to forget campaign contributions to self in the form of "loans".
“would that it were,would that it were...”
More famous words Howie loves to play over and over....
Too bad there’s no VIDEO of this!
Wouldn’t that make a great postcard to bury jcarry in?
Why should anyone care about the opinion of some trophy husband?
So lurch opens his big mouth again. Wonder if his foot will fit in it after this November election.
Excuse me.
Kerry, as commander of his SWIFT boat, in his own words, decided to divert up river to Saigon while he abandoned the station to which he was assigned thus endangering others as his commanders had no idea where his force was in case it was needed there. This, so Kerry and crew could get a little illicit boom-boom.
Delicate enough?
They’re still out there. The other day saw a college kid near Monserrat Art College in Beverly with a shirt—nothing but a huge pic of Obama. And a car today on US 4 in NH: Kerry Edwards sticker on left, Obama 08 on right.
Thanks for the ping!
great videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQZIU79lZvs
all Dem Masspols are the same - here’s a lady talking about her “appointment with Barney”..
Thanks for the link!
The uninformed voters are the ever shrinking democrat voters who don’t fully realize just how fed up the rest of the country with their candidates and policies.
Wes cain’t halp ourselfs, mestur carrie. Wes not smert like youens in dem limos.
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