Reply #75: At this point I don't give a flip what Kerry's policy is. Kerry is LYING [View All]

[w4rma]

to trash Dean. As long as Kerry continues to use Bushlite talking points against Dean, I'll trash him back until he stops. And I'll trash him everytime you trash Dean, DrFunkenstein.

I no longer think Kerry is as liberal as I once thought he was anyway. He has told us to "get over it" and "quit crying in our teacups" over the 2000 election. He trashed Al Gore to reporters, repeating the "invented the internet" lie.

And I'm digging around and learning about the guy. I'm finding he's as hypocritical as his supporters are:
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But what he's doing, if I'm interpreting him correctly, is accusing Dean of not being a man of his word, and a man who doesn't live up to his word, Kerry is essentially saying, is unqualified to be president.

So let's go back to 1996, to Kerry's reelection campaign against then-Governor Bill Weld, specifically to the night Weld met Kerry at the senator's wife's Beacon Hill mansion. They finalized an unprecedented agreement to limit advertising spending to $5 million apiece, and to limit the use of personal funds in the campaign to $500,000 apiece.

Good government types hailed the agreement as a major breakthrough. Kerry and Weld basked in the plaudits of editorialists the nation over. Kerry described the pact as "a model for campaign reform across the country."

But a funny thing happened on the way to Election Day. Kerry didn't just violate the deal, he pulverized it. Running out of money in the waning days of October, Kerry mortgaged and remortgaged the Louisburg Square house, ultimately pouring $1.7 million in personal funds into his campaign. For those of you keeping track at home, that's $1.2 million more than the agreement allowed.

As he made a mockery of the pact, he did something else distinctly distasteful. He accused Weld of violating the agreement, a charge that seemed specious at best, an outright lie at worst.

At issue was a discount Weld received from the standard fee his media consultant would reap from all ad spending. It allowed Weld to buy about $400,000 more in ads for his $5 million. Every good campaign negotiates a discount, and the written agreement did not preclude them. Kerry claimed it was a violation of a rule that, well, was never written down.

Still, yesterday, he repeated the charge. "The Kerry campaign took appropriate action to level the playing field," said spokeswoman Kelley Benander, adding, "The situation with Howard Dean is much more serious."
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/09/16/hard_to_pull_for_kerry/

This is the final straw for me anyway. Using the same exact tactics against Dean that Bush used against Gore is low. :thumbsdown: I hope your happy with the results of your (and Kerry's) trashing, DrFunkenstein.