...but he recently changed his mind on the matter when the exit poll results came in. What a cynical opportunist. In fact, he also said he didn't want to be president, according to a 60 Minutes interview some time ago. Again, he's changed his mind. What good is a leader who can't stay the course? A weak-kneed sycophant, that's who.
Someone once said that to marry into one wealthy family is luck. But to marry into two is calculation. Well, it seems like Kerry, who has been a whore for the democratic lobbyists for decades, contemplated his final years and decided to whore his way into a comfortable life after he was no longer worth a dime to the special interests (who paid good money to buy him). This gold-digger seduced two rich women for their money.
Kerry's Senate record may be a liability
WASHINGTON -- The moment John Kerry began to seem like the candidate to watch in the Iowa caucuses, the campaigns of his Democratic rivals Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt swiftly used a handful of Kerry's decade-old Senate votes and statements against ethanol and agricultural subsidies to attack him as not supportive of Iowa's essential industry.
Now that his opponents are moving even more aggressively to slow Kerry's rise, his 19-year voting record as the junior senator from Massachusetts could loom as his greatest political vulnerability, to Democrats and Republicans alike. The sheer length of Kerry's service means that he has built a paper trail of positions on education, the military, intelligence and other issues -- stands that might have looked one way when he took them but that resonate differently now.
For example, at the end of the Cold War, Kerry advocated scaling back the CIA, but after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he complained about a lack of intelligence capability.
In the 1980s, he opposed the death penalty for terrorists who killed Americans abroad, but he now supports the death penalty for terrorist acts.
In the 1990s, he joined with Republican senators to sponsor proposals to end tenure for public school teachers and allow direct grants to religion-based charities, measures that many Democratic groups opposed.
In 1997, he voted to require elderly people with higher incomes to pay a larger share of Medicare premiums.
The record is susceptible to two broad strands of attack.
Kerry's rival Democrats point to a series of shifting stands on issues, like his qualified praise for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and his vote authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq. They say these are at odds with his claim to be the "real deal" Democratic alternative to Bush, capable of "standing up for people and taking on powerful interests," as he says in his stump speech.
"When it was popular to be a Massachusetts liberal, his voting record was that," said Jay Carson, a Dean campaign spokesman. "When it was popular to be for the Iraq war, he was for it. Now it's popular to be against it, and he's against it. This is a voting record that is a big vulnerability against Republicans in the general election. He's all over the place on this stuff."
The Republicans seek to paint Kerry as voting in lock step with, or even to the left of, his fellow Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, long a Republican target.
"Whether it's economic policy, national security policy or social issues, John Kerry is out of sync with most voters," the Republican national chairman, Ed Gillespie, said in a speech on Friday.
Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, said the senator is "proud of his independence and unashamed that his resistance to orthodoxy leaves him hard to pigeonhole. "
Wade added that Kerry has "fought a lifetime for what's right even when it's neither popular nor predictable."
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Someone once said that to marry into one wealthy family is luck. But to marry into two is calculation. Well, it seems like Kerry, who has been a whore for the democratic lobbyists for decades, contemplated his final years and decided to whore his way into a comfortable life after he was no longer worth a dime to the special interests (who paid good money to buy him). This gold-digger seduced two rich women for their money.
Kerry's Senate record may be a liability
WASHINGTON -- The moment John Kerry began to seem like the candidate to watch in the Iowa caucuses, the campaigns of his Democratic rivals Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt swiftly used a handful of Kerry's decade-old Senate votes and statements against ethanol and agricultural subsidies to attack him as not supportive of Iowa's essential industry.
Now that his opponents are moving even more aggressively to slow Kerry's rise, his 19-year voting record as the junior senator from Massachusetts could loom as his greatest political vulnerability, to Democrats and Republicans alike. The sheer length of Kerry's service means that he has built a paper trail of positions on education, the military, intelligence and other issues -- stands that might have looked one way when he took them but that resonate differently now.
For example, at the end of the Cold War, Kerry advocated scaling back the CIA, but after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he complained about a lack of intelligence capability.
In the 1980s, he opposed the death penalty for terrorists who killed Americans abroad, but he now supports the death penalty for terrorist acts.
In the 1990s, he joined with Republican senators to sponsor proposals to end tenure for public school teachers and allow direct grants to religion-based charities, measures that many Democratic groups opposed.
In 1997, he voted to require elderly people with higher incomes to pay a larger share of Medicare premiums.
The record is susceptible to two broad strands of attack.
Kerry's rival Democrats point to a series of shifting stands on issues, like his qualified praise for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and his vote authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq. They say these are at odds with his claim to be the "real deal" Democratic alternative to Bush, capable of "standing up for people and taking on powerful interests," as he says in his stump speech.
"When it was popular to be a Massachusetts liberal, his voting record was that," said Jay Carson, a Dean campaign spokesman. "When it was popular to be for the Iraq war, he was for it. Now it's popular to be against it, and he's against it. This is a voting record that is a big vulnerability against Republicans in the general election. He's all over the place on this stuff."
The Republicans seek to paint Kerry as voting in lock step with, or even to the left of, his fellow Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, long a Republican target.
"Whether it's economic policy, national security policy or social issues, John Kerry is out of sync with most voters," the Republican national chairman, Ed Gillespie, said in a speech on Friday.
Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, said the senator is "proud of his independence and unashamed that his resistance to orthodoxy leaves him hard to pigeonhole. "
Wade added that Kerry has "fought a lifetime for what's right even when it's neither popular nor predictable."
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