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The Things They Kerry'd
Introducing the first edition of Hugh Hewitt's exclusive "Kerry Files" memo.
this PING list is for YOU!
(If you want OFF - or ON - my "Hugh Hewitt PING list" - please let me know)
Posted on 02/12/2004 6:57:01 AM PST by Redcoat LI
Could someone please explain the reference, here? I don't understand the nickname.
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The Things They Kerry'd
Introducing the first edition of Hugh Hewitt's exclusive "Kerry Files" memo.
(If you want OFF - or ON - my "Hugh Hewitt PING list" - please let me know)
JOHN KERRY -- THE LIST YOU NEED TO HAVE!
Various Sources ^ | 02-12-04 | cww
Posted on 02/12/2004 7:56:20 AM PST by CWW
JOHN KERRY – THE LIST
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ABORTION o Voted to federally fund abortions
o Voted against Parental consent for minors
o Voted against ban on Partial Birth Abortion (3 times)
o Voted against ban on sending money to UN population fund if the money could was sent to pay for China’s forced abortion and sterilization policy
o NARAL lifetime rating of 100%
o National Right to Life Committee lifetime rating of 0%·
DEATH PENALTY o Opposes federal death penalty
o Voted against death penalty for terrorist (recently flip-flopped in 2002)
o Voted against death penalty for drug-related murders·
TAXES & BUDGET o Voted against Bush tax cut & wants to repeal portions of Bush tax cut
o Voted for 19993 Clinton tax hike (largest in history)
o Voted against major tax relief packages at least 10 times
o Voted at least 5 times against balance budget amendmentso Kerry voted at least five times to raid The Social Security Trust Fund.
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MILITARY & NATIONAL SECURITY o Voted for 7 major reductions in military funding
o Voted against Gulf War I (1991)
o Voted for Gulf War II (but then criticized and voted against military appropriation for troops.
o Voted against MX missile
o Voted against Trident Submarine
o Voted against SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative – Star Wars)
o Voted against B-1 and B-2 Stealth Bomber and Fighter
o Favored UN control of US Troops (in the 1970s)
o Supported Slashing $2.6 Billion from Intelligence Funding While Serving as a Member of Senate Intel Committee
o Attended a seminar (the so-called "Winter Soldier Investigation) bankrolled by Jane Fonda in Detroit in February 1971 during which 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testified at a Howard Johnson's about atrocities allegedly committed by our own forces. Many of the so-called Veterans were frauds and virtually every alleged atrocity was investigated and proven to be false.·
FAITH & VALUES o Voted Against Defense of Marriage Act (to give states option to decide whether to recognize homosexual marriages in other States)
o Sent letter to Massachusetts’ Legislature opposing Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
o Favors Civil Unions for homosexuals
o Voted to extend hate crimes protections to homosexuals
o Voted against a constitutional amendment on flag desecration.
o Voted against voluntary school prayer
o Voted against ban on human cloning
EDUCATION o Voted against voucher pilot program
o Voted against approving a school-choice pilot program·
JUDGES, COURTS & LAW o Voted against confirmation of Clarence Thomas for Supreme Court Justice
o Voted against confirmation of Robert Bork for Supreme Court Justice
o Voted against confirmation William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
o Voted against confirmation John Ashcroft as US Attorney General
o Voted against punitive damages in products liability cases
o As Michael Dukakis’ Lt. Governor From 1983-1985, Kerry Supported Granting Prison Furloughs To Hundreds Of Massachusetts Inmates.·
FOREIGN POLICY o Against linking Most Favored Nation status to China’s human rights record
o Voted for Kyoto Protocol on Environment that exempted major Third Word polluters
o Supported Iraq regime change as late as January, 2003. Now has flipped-flopped
o For Unilateral nuclear Freeze
o Voted against deployment of INF missiles in Europe·
POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS o Founder Member of VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War)
o Attended and conducted anti-war and anti-American protests in the 1970s
o Organized the Protested
o Votes with Ted Kennedy an average of 94% of the time
o Received $300,000 contribution from Johnny Chung as directed by Chinese intelligence officer
o Supported Communist Sandinistas and visited with leader Communist Daniel Ortega days before Ortega flew to Moscow and received $200 million in Soviet aid
o Has a lifetime rating of 26% from Citizens Against Government Waste
o Has a lifetime rating of 0% from the National Rifle Assoc.
o Lifetime liberal vote rating of 93% from Americans For Democratic Action (5 points higher than Ted Kennedy)
o Voted with the liberal activist group, The League Of Conservation Voters, an average of 95% of the time...CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
I hope you don't mind the correction. It's better to point out to people exactly what "repeal portions of Bush tax cut" means -- a tax increase on them.
FWIW, Free Republic beat Rush on THIS story:
KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN
Posted by kellynla
On News/Activism 02/12/2004 9:02:31 AM PST with 206 comments
Drudge Report ^ | 2/12/2004 | MATT DRUDGEKERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN
Posted by sr4402
On News/Activism 02/12/2004 8:47:16 AM PST with 143 comments
Drudge Report ^ | 02/12/2004 | Matt DrudgeKERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN
Posted by 1stFreedom
On News/Activism 02/12/2004 8:36:59 AM PST with 62 comments
drudgereport.com ^
That'll leave a sacr.
Keep Hammerin' Hugh!
Peter B. has entered the ring!...
Atos
The 'Hammer' is on fire!
February 12, 2004
Posted at 4:00 PM, Pacific
The New Republic's Peter Beinart and I mixed it up today, when after dancing around the fact that he and the staff at TNR had been discussing the Kerry allegations he chastised me for bringing up the DrudgeReport's allegations on air without any evidence for their veracity. Trap sprung. I asked Peter for the evidence supporting the allegations that Bush was a "deserter" or "AWOL", allegations that he and the TNR staff have been rolling about in for days. The only "evidence" he could cite was General Turnipseed's alleged charge. Understand that Turnipseed has never alleged that Bush was AWOL or a deserter. Never. Four years ago he said he doesn't recall seeing him. On Tuesday he stated that Bush could well have been on the base, but that he just didn't see him. In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever to support Terry McAuliffe's slanderous charge that was repeated in Congress yesterday by a Democratic congressman and by countless pundits including the increasingly repugnant Begala, and widely read websites of the left like Joshua Marshall's. But while Beinart and his colleagues of the left have no problem covering the Bush story and shifting coverage from the lack of evidence for the charges levelled at Bush to their disatisfaction with the completeness of the Bush denials, they are feigning shock that a report from Matt Drudge on alleged Kerry infidelity should be mentioned outside their newsrooms. The timing of the new allegations is wonderful especially because it throws such a defining light on the bias of the Washington media --ever ready to carry the water of the Democrats and dismayed that they might be obliged to cover some nasty business about the front-runner from the left.
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