Could John Kerry wind up an alternative candidate for President?

[karynnj]

16. He never said he would have invaded had he been President - in fact, he said many many times that

he would not have. In fact, he said not to rush to war BEFORE the war started. In the same speech he said that the US should never go to war except as a last resort. (He then listed in that speech and many others the things not done - exhausting the diplomacy, letting the inspectors finish etc.) In summer 2004, he often said "wrong war, wrong time, wrong place - I might have the order wrong.

I assume what you are referring to is his answer to a question that is not included in the video but introduced by Candy Crowley. Kerry's answer was the answer he gave many times explaining his vote -- and in full it cannot be the answer to Crowley's question. What Crowley did was conflate a question of the Bush team - that spoke of what would he have done had he known then what he knew "now" with Kerry answering a question asked a million times.

This became a media smear on Kerry. It is interesting that that story was given MORE coverage in 2005 - when Kerry was considering running than in 2004. (Here is the story written in 2004 - http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh081204.shtml )