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In recent days CBS News revealed 30-year old documents regarding President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. Those documents now appear to be forgeries. But what has been lost in the Bush National Guard memo affair was the release of another old document that appears to be much more relevant to the presidential election. Powerline Blog published a 1984 press release from John Kerry's senate campaign [Page 1 / Page 2] in which Kerry's stance on defense is clear. This press release is especially interesting because (a) Kerry is running on building a "stronger America" and (b) the Kerry...

Senator Zell Miller (D-GA), an ex Marine, is angry that the party he spent a lifetime helping to build has gone so far to the left that it is barely recognizable. Miller attacked the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry (D-MA), in terms that no Republican would dare to do. He gave a litany of the weapons systems that Kerry voted against in his two decades in the United States Senate. The Kerry apologists, who were all over the media the morning after the Miller speech, tried to suggest that when a Senator votes against a bill containing a weapons system...

Senator John Kerry's Congressional Record In spite of his close ties to Ted Kennedy and others, Kerry has not gained a reputation as a key legislative figure in the Senate. Only three pieces of legislation bear his name; two of these involve marine microbiology. According to Americans for Democratic Action, a far-left watchdog group, Kerry has a higher lifetime liberal voting record at 93% than Ted Kennedy with 88%. In 2001, 1999, 1998, 1993, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, and 1985, Kerry voted with Kennedy -- known for being to left of even his own party on every social issue...

Small Business Survival Committee analysis of Senator John Kerry's votes shows "unsettling" record Kerry Key Vote Findings • Of the 101 votes in the U.S. Senate that SBSC has rated since the 103rd Congress Senator Kerry’s record is unsettling. He has voted on the side of small business a mere 13 times out of the 101 votes that SBSC rated during the past decade – giving him a weak 13 percent rating on key small business issues. • Senator Kerry voted against small business 94 percent of the time on tax-related legislation rated by SBSC. Given 34 different opportunities...

Kerry’s Record of “Commitment” "I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have, and who misled America into Iraq," were Kerry’s words at a recent midnight rally in Ohio; Oh?! Okay, the President doesn’t have to say a word, 2.5 million Vietnam Veterans will. For too many years Kerry’s lapdogs protected him whenever he was challenged, but they have never had to face the collective wrath of those who he betrayed. If commitment is defined in part by ones voting record, then the list below sheds light into...

The Advocate magazine has recently republished a column by Senator John Kerry from the September 3, 1996 issue. In it, Kerry explains why he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed by Congress and signed into law by then-President Clinton. The Defense of Marriage Act said that states do not have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Kerry, however, called DOMA, "unconstitutional and unnecessary" and "mean-spirited and malicious." Kerry likened opposition to homosexual marriage to opposition to interacial marriage and said that opponents of same-sex marriage want to establish a "caste system for marriage." Kerry also...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Record in Senate not fair game?By David LimbaughPublished September 7, 2004 Democrats are afraid the American people will find out about John Kerry's Senate record. That's the only way you can explain their incessant accusations Republicans are mean and angry for merely discussing his record.     The idea Democrats have been selling is a factual airing of their default presidential candidate's record is dirty politics.     Following Sen. Zell Miller's convention speech, the cable shows were flooded with handwringing liberals beside themselves over the "meanness" of Mr. Miller's remarks. Newspapers followed with "news" stories and editorials making the same...

I was just watching the Hannity and Combs Show on Fox where they were interviewing two campaign advisors, one for Bush, one for Kerry. What was really encouraging was how intense the Kerry guy (Bob Somebody) was dodging questions about what Kerry had done in the Senate over the past TWENTY years! Since the guy obviously HAD NO ANSWER he immediately accused the commontator of "picking apart Kerry" and "character asassination" -- by questioning Kerry's senate performance record. Watching these guys squirm is just amazing. You cannot get an answer to any legitimate question about Kerry from any of his...

Kerry's Voting Record on Defense.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kerry has voted for at least SEVEN major reductions in Defense and Military spending, necessary for our national security: 1) In 1996 - Introduced Bill to slash Defense Department Funding by $6.5 Billion. 2) In 1995 - Voted to freeze Defense spending for 7 years, slashing over $34 billion from Defense. 3) Fiscal 1996 Budget Resolution - Defense Freeze. "Harkin, D-Iowa, amendment to freeze defense spending for the next seven years and transfer the $34.8 billion in savings to education and job training." 4) In 1993 - Introduced plan to cut numerous Defense programs,...

Democrats are afraid the people are going to find out about John Kerry's Senate record. That's the only way you can explain their incessant accusations that Republicans are being mean and angry when they merely discuss his record. The idea that Democrats have been selling is that a factual airing of their default presidential candidate's record is dirty politics.

...a focus group conducted with 17 independent voters in Ohio by GOP pollster Frank Luntz for MSNBC drew a mostly positive response. These voters, Luntz said, did not care for Miller's attacks on the Democratic Party because they were too "broad-brush," but the attacks on Kerry resonated because Miller anchored his criticism in specific arguments about Kerry's record. "They liked facts," Luntz said. "They're not responding to style. They're asking for a level of detail." The group, in which voters turned dials to register reaction to each line of the speech, thought the most "memorable" passage of Miller's speech was...

Democrats are afraid the people are going to find out about John Kerry's Senate record. That's the only way you can explain their incessant accusations that Republicans are being mean and angry when they merely discuss his record. The idea that Democrats have been selling is that a factual airing of their default presidential candidate's record is dirty politics. Following Sen. Zel Miller's convention speech, the cable shows were flooded with handwringing liberals beside themselves over the "meanness" of Miller's remarks. The newspapers followed with "news" stories and editorials registering the same complaint. The Associated Press reported, "Republicans are satisfying...

Sen. John Kerry's campaign defends his proposals to eliminate major U.S. weapons systems during his career as a senator by claiming Vice President Dick Cheney proposed similar cuts as secretary of Defense during the first Bush administration. The spin-doctors in the Kerry campaign responsible for these claims obviously know nothing of history. These claims are baseless for the following reasons: (1) Mr. Kerry proposed eliminating 65 major U.S. weapons systems in 1984, including the ships, planes and missiles we currently have in our inventory that are the backbone of both our nuclear and conventional deterrent. If these proposals had been...

John Edwards just now denied that John Kerry voted against the weapon systems Zell Miller listed in the speech last night and called Zell Miller a liar (said Miller was a liar). Even with FACTS presented, the Democrats sat the facts are lies, the press nods their head yes, and the ignorant American public believes the lies.

Today's National Journal daily (no web link) reports on its ratings becoming a talking point in this election cycle, due to the top rating that John Kerry received for his voting record last year. In an experience that NJ reporter Charles Green calls "disconcerting," Journal editors have heard George Bush and Dick Cheney use the rating on the campaign trail, without giving the context of how the ratings are compiled, although the context hardly casts glory on the Massachussetts senator: When the tabulations came in for 2003, John Kerry had the highest composite liberal score of any senator. But there...

NEW YORK -- Nearly 5,000 Republican delegates open their national convention Monday in a much brighter mood than would have been the case one month earlier. But they realize that George W. Bush faces a difficult contest against John Kerry and needs a boost here this week. This is the list of particulars that the Republican Party's insiders say they want -- and, indeed, require -- out of this convention. Some of these issues are in control of the Republicans, and others are not. *A relatively peaceful convention city. New York for the Republicans is bound to be less serene...

While Sen. John Kerry continues his attempt to demonstrate his presidential bona fides by concentrating virtually exclusively on his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam in the late 1960s, it is instructive to examine the potentially destructive role he has played on the national-security front during his two decades in the Senate. Perhaps no issue offers more evidence of Mr. Kerry's foreign-policy follies than the matter of defending the American homeland against ballistic missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads.     The issue is particularly timely given that the first ground-based missile interceptor was installed on July 22 in...

By Nick Anderson Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — President Bush (news - web sites) assailed John F. Kerry's record as a senator in two new television commercials Monday, amid ongoing controversy over other Republican-backed attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee's record during the Vietnam War. One of the new Bush advertisements, airing on national cable channels and in local broadcast markets in several key states, depicts Kerry as a longtime backer of tax increases for the middle-class. The other, airing in Nevada, says he has cast votes in favor of a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Kerry's campaign immediately...

"John Kerry promises not to raise taxes, but the reality is that he has cast 98 votes for tax increases, including voting ten times to raise gas taxes on the middle class. Kerry points to the largest tax increase in American history as the blueprint for his economic plan, which advisor Bob Rubin says Kerry won't reveal until elected. Kerry's credibility problem is only expanding as more and more Americans see the gap between what Kerry says and what Kerry does." - Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman John Kerry's Votes For Higher Taxes Kerry Voted 98 Times For Tax...

Aug 23, 2004 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Pope John Paul II warned in a statement released Sunday that humanity's speedy progress in science and technology risks overlooking moral values. At his visit a week ago at the French Shrine at Lourdes he urged that life "be respected from conception to its natural end" Fresh debate over cloning was sparked when Britain granted its first license for human cloning for stem-cell research.