[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

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[goldstategop]

I support the death penalty for all killers. It shouldn't matter if one life is taken or if its 3,000. The punishment should be the same across the board as a matter of principle.

[rabidralph]

"I walked out of the Capitol and said, `We're at war."' said Kerry

That statement ranks right up there with Chelsea's criticizing tax cuts as the twin towers burned.

[rhombus]

Kerry is just being a weasel again. He's going to run to the right now and make a lot of huffing and puffing sounds so he doesn't sound sooooo Massachusetts.

[dagnabbit]

The death penalty is a subject that Kerry's political opponents have tried to use against him over the past two decades, to little effect.

And which national election would those decades encompass?

[mware]

Another flip-flop by Kerry. He was against the death penalty for terrorist who killed Americans several years ago.

[OldFriend]

Kerry against the death penalty for criminals but FOR the death penalty for unborn babies?

[SolutionsOnly]

The man has no core beliefs. It's the flip-flop du jour. This is more evidence that he'll say whatever he thinks he has to in order to get elected.

[Paul_B]

Arbitrary, relativistic, and darned politically convenient.

Again, it's Just For Kerry.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

I love the smell of liberal opportunism in the morining.

What exactly does Kerry actually stand for again? Which way is the wind blowing?

[The Mayor]

a decorated Vietnam veteran.

A chickenshit Vietnam Veteran

[anniegetyourgun]

Isn't this the same guy who says the prez has exaggerated the terrorism threat?

[TomGuy]

Kerry's statement is about as ridiculous as BClinton saying he'd grab a gun, hunker down, and protect Israel.

[binger]

[TomGuy]

"I walked out of the Capitol and said, `We're at war."' said Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran. "That was my instant reaction as I looked in the air for another airplane that was heading toward us. I think you destroy the enemy."

Rendition of Hillary's tale of Chelsae jogging around downtown Manhattan, stopping to call Hillary and blame the 2 planes hitting the towers on Bush's tax cuts.


[Do these people really 'hear' what they are saying? They need to start listening to what is coming out of their mouths. Most times, with Kerry, his speeches and interviews don't even make much sense. They consist of a bunch of 'bit sounding' words strung together. Oh, maybe that's the 'plan' Kerry is always saying he has for America.]

[cyncooper]

Such measured and presidential language.

/sarcasm

(I said yesterday and I say again today, he is going insane before our very eyes. Watch. Rhetoric like "blow his brains out" is not reassuring, presidential, in command.)

[Happy2BMe]

J-FK making an "exception" for "terrorists" now is he?

What exception would he give to John Allen Muhammad?

[usmcobra]

So Like what does he think about the death penalty for Traitors?

[astounded]

"That status of war led me to find it impossible to suggest I wouldn't want to blow Osama bin Laden's brains out and treat him as an enemy..."

Huh??? Can anyone interpret this "Kerry-speak" for me? This guy is just like either Clinton - hedging, qualifying, never saying anything directly. These bites are just politicking, which the media dutifully report in their job of mouth-piece for the DNC and the democrat party.

Kerry makes me sick to my stomach - I want to puke every time I hear his voice and see his face. He is the worst sort of opportunistic leech on America - his "chestful of medals" be damned. I'm certainly not impressed by them or by him. Kerry has turned his "wartime service" into a mere political tool to be used by himself and the democrats. Despicable.

[Brilliant]

Kerry says that execution is not the toughest penalty--life in jail is the toughest penalty. But he says that terrorists should be executed. I guess he wants to give them an easier sentence.

[Jaxter]

Actually, though I disagreed with Kerry, his (previous) argument against the death penalty for terrorists was better than his argument against the death penalty for your run of the mill baby raping murderer. I believe that he said having the death penalty for terrorists may keep certain countries from extraditing them to the USA. This is a pretty good argument, although I'd say that failure to extradite the terrorists would be the same as harboring them and we all know what the Bush Doctrine says about that. In any case it's just another opportunistic, which way is the wind blowing, flip-flop by Kerry.