Posted on 08/23/2006 10:21:03 AM PDT by presidio9
Senator John F. Kerry yesterday blasted Senator Joseph I. Lieberman over his decision to stay in the Connecticut senatorial race as an independent, saying Lieberman ``is making a Republican case" to voters and is echoing the words of Vice President Dick Cheney in his campaign.
Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on ABC's ``This Week" that Lieberman is ``dead wrong" on the issue of the Iraq war, and said he is making a ``huge mistake" by aligning himself with Republicans who support it.
He urged Democrats to coalesce behind Ned Lamont, who defeated Lieberman in the Aug. 8 Democratic primary, based largely on his strong antiwar stance.
``I am concerned that he is making a Republican case, and he is uttering almost the same words as Vice President Cheney, and I think it's inappropriate," Kerry said of Lieberman, his Senate colleague for the past 18 years.
``The fact is, Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut," he continued. ``And to adopt the rhetoric of Dick Cheney, who has been wrong about almost everything he has said about Iraq, shows you just exactly why he got in trouble with the Democrats there."
Lieberman, appearing on CBS's ``Face the Nation," dismissed the criticism as part of Kerry's efforts to position himself for another run for the presidency in 2008.
``With all respect to John Kerry, an old friend, that's just plain politics by somebody who has ambitions of his own," Lieberman said. ``I am a Democrat. Look at my voting record. I voted 90 percent of the time with the majority of Democrats in the United States Senate. But when I disagree, I'm going to have the courage of my convictions to say so."
Kerry is trying to establish himself firmly as an antiwar candidate
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That's not for you to decide, Ketchup boy.
"It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Statement on commencement of military strikes against Iraq
March 20, 2003
http://kerry.senate.gov/high/record.cfm?id=191582
Well if there's one man in DC who knows what the voters want........
LOL
HA HA HA...skerry is so out of touch...it's pathetic...what an idiot...and a traitor...
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.............!
Doesn't the fact that he lost the national election sort of imply that John F. Kerry is out of step with American voters?
BTW, did you know he was in Vietnam?
"Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President.
No one can doubt or should doubt that we are safer -- and Iraq is better -- because Saddam Hussein is now behind bars."
Senator John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Speech at Drake University in Iowa
December 16, 2003
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec03/193182.asp?format=print
John Kerry doesn't believe in democracy.
From what I have read, it Looks like Joe L. could retain his seat by getting a majority of the GOP and Indy voters adn a minority of the Dems. I say good for him and good for American politics.
I was listening to a show on NPR on the weekend, and they had a spot where this guy was talking about Kerry. He said, "Just go away! We don't like you. We voted on it."..........I nearly fell over!.........
Where's Mr. Kerry this week? At his wife's kahzillion-dollar house on Nantucket?
And Mr. Leiberman is out of step with the voters?
Thank the dear Lord Mr. Kerry lost in 2004. He sure is one, big horse's patoot.
He was? I didn't know that.
Kerry, hoping anyone else who voted for the war will turncoat and vote against it, like he did. Rotten traitor.
John Kerry doesn't know what he believes in except being a first class snob and elitist.
I think I heard that too. Didn't he win some sort of Viet Cong Cross or star or something?
Yeah, Lieberman is polling at 54 percent, but he's out of step with the voters.
If Lieberman is out of step with voters, he'll lose the general election. Why should Kerry care?
John Kerry was for Joe Lieberman before he was against him.
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