Reply #115: A List of Crap Against Kerry Refuted Up and Down - Please Read

[DrFunkenstein]

It seems you cherry-pick liberally from Dean arguments and smears Republicans have been spouting for years.

1) Kerry refers occasionally about 2000, but decided to leave it for the same reason Gore did - it focuses on the past, instead of the future.

2) If he wasn't 100%, you'd say he waffled. But he has held the same beliefs since at least 1997, and voted based on those beliefs.

3) A second resolution would never even make it to the floor. Republican majority, and most Dems never want it to come up again.

4) Um, actually Kerry demanded an investigation on the deception.

5) I'm not sure what you mean by "rig" the debates.

6) The Patriot Act was voted nearly unanimously. He said he would review it and repeal whatever was un-Constitutional. Plus he was in a minority that voted against Ashcroft's nomination.

7) Kerry consistently gets 100% ratings from the NEA.

8) I don't listen to Imus. I prefer Leonard Lopate.

9) What "documentation" are you talking about?

10) Is it cocky arrogance or pompous arrogance? Should I get a list of things Joe Trippi has said about Kerry? You'll find its a much longer list.

11) You'd fall on yourself if Dean had the celebrity connections Kerry does. If I took a picture with Lennon, you bet your ass I'd use it. Your just pissed because you're impressed Kerry hung out with the smart Beatle.

12) If you're a die-hard Massachusetts liberal, you're not going to be President with some Vietnam credentials. It may grate on your sensitive nerves, but it resonates with the general public. Say it with me - "war hero." Now say, "Bush went AWOL, Cheney evaded." Can I get a "chickenhawk?"

Now we really start getting into Republican territory. Which translates as - desperate and pathetic. Most of it is refuted easily by Joe Klein in The New Yorker:

http://www.johnkerry.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6197&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=-1

13) Vets threw all kinds of military apparel into the "trash bin." There was nothing exceptional about Kerry throwing his ribbons, nor did he ever mislead anyone on the matter.

14) Kerry was ALWAYs upfront about not knowing his father's genealogy. He even said he suspected some Jewishness.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh030703.shtml

15) If you want to nitpick Kerry's environmental, at least spell "leisure" correctly.

16) We'll let the general public decide how Kerry connects, not conservative pundits and you. So far, there have been lots of articles with people saying, "I expected him to be aloof, but he seemed like a nice guy."

17) Are you actually going to attack Kerry's philanthropist wife?

18) His surgery was corrective to stop a clicking. By "generally considered," do you mean by conservative pundits?

19) Gore had few signature bills, so did John Kennedy. Kerry does have an impressive stack of small business bills that add up big time not to mention the Kerry-McCain CAFE bill, or the Kerry Amendment to NAFTA to stop secret, extra-Constitutional tribunals.

http://action.citizen.org/pc/officials/congress/?lvl=C&only_votes=1&azip=02101

I don't have to mention BCCI, Iran-Contra, CIA drug smuggling, Oliver North, or the POW-MIA investigations, all of enormous importance then, and setting the model for pursuing stateless terrorists and financing in the 90's and beyond.

20) He led the Veterans Agains The War, didn't he? That impresses me more than Vermont, a rural state with no major metropolitan areas.

21) Actually, Kerry and the DLC believe in Free Trade and globalization as having the potential as a positive force. Kerry just believes in strong labor and environmental safeguards like the 2002 Kerry Amendment.

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