Following the excellent speech from Zell Miller, Andrea Mitchell was on with Chris "The Interruptor" Matthews. Anrea sniffed and dismissed Miller's comments about the Kerry voting record saying that Zell was "inaccurate". Can any Freeper guide me to Zell's notes where he shows the entire Kerry defense voting record? Can anyone find ANY weapons system or any afirmative vote FOR a defense project?
http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=3936
Slate has an interesting article, which notes that most of the weapons in the list were voted against in one bill (the GOP list also shows this if you look at the small type). The author (Fred Kaplan) goes to great lengths to show negative votes and opposition to some weapons by papa Bush and then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheny:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2096127/
This site (biased to the left, imho, but does attempt to examine both sides at times), indicates Kerry opposed these weapons in 1984 as well, but does not address the fact that Kerry actually VOTED against these same weapons by voting against the 1990 and 1995 authorization bills. (So much for fair and balanced):
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=252
What would be nice is to see a list of all military votes by Kerry over his political career. With the most liberal voting record in the Senate, do his defenders really believe that on Defense, John Kerry was a hawk? Please, lol..;)