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Kerry: Voters now more receptive to his message
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said at the outset of a trip to Iowa today that the nation’s voters are more open now than two years ago to the message he campaigned on as the 2004 Democratic nominee for president.
Although a decision about whether he will mount a second bid for the White House is “down the road,” conditions in the country have worsened since his narrow loss to President Bush, he said in a telephone interview.
“I think the American people can understand I lost to a lie about Iraq and lie about me personally,” Kerry said while en route to Iowa. “I think people will say, Kerry was right about the war, he was right about health care, he was right about energy policy.
“I think people wouldn’t mind having a president who knows how to get it right,” he added.
Kerry planned to headline a state legislative fundraiser in Indianola this evening before attending events Saturday in Iowa City, Waterloo and Cedar Rapids.
The trip is his fifth since the 2004 election to Iowa, which is scheduled to kick off the 2008 presidential nominating campaign.
Since the 2004 election, Kerry has remained a vocal critic of the Bush administration, especially regarding its handling of the war in Iraq. In July, he co-sponsored a bill with Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin that called for U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by next summer. The bill was soundly defeated.
Last week, Kerry gave a speech in Boston laying out a plan for U.S. security. It centered on pulling troops out of Iraq and redeploying some to Afghanistan where, he says, the threat posed by terrorists is greater.
“Iraq is not the center of the war on terror,” he said Friday. “Afghanistan is in greater trouble today and we ought to be redeploying our forces in a way that helps us properly fight this war.”
Republicans in Iowa, where Kerry lost in 2004, characterized the criticisms as “inaccurate.”
“Iowans re-elected President Bush because they have confidence that he will do what is necessary to maintain the safety and security of our country,” said Sarah Sauber, spokeswoman for the Republican Party of Iowa.
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'Mason City Democrat John Stone said Kerry would have won, but for attacks by a group of veterans who ran ads attacking his record as a Naval officer in Vietnam and his criticism of the war afterward.