Posted on 10/29/2004 8:53:47 PM PDT by wheels128
John Kerry Flip-Flop #1 - The $87 billion
John Kerry said "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it", after saying it would be "irresponsible" for any senator to vote against it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #2 - The 7 minutes after 9/11
John Kerry said he would have reacted quicker than 7 minutes after 9/11, yet in reality he sat in disbelief for 40 minutes.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #3 - Abortion judges
Kerry was open to nominating pro life judges, then he backflipped the next day.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #4 - Abortions Law For States/Nation
First it was a state issue, then it was a national issue - seems Kerry can't make up his mind.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #5 - Accepting the Democratic nomination
Kerry said he would wait 5 weeks, then backflipped and flopped on the issue.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #6 - Affirmative Action
He said it was limited, divisive and promoted "a culture of dependency", then claimed "I've never, ever condemned it."
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #7 - Energy Policy
Kerry wants to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, yet he opposed using oil from American soil.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #8 - Attacking President During War
Kerry said he would stop criticising the President once the war began, but then the next month he said that America needed a regime change.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #9 - Ballistic Missile Defence
Despite voting against Ballistic Missile Defence systems 50 times over a 15 years period, John Kerry claims to support it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #10 - Burma Sanctions
Kerry flip-flopped on Burma during his 1996 re-election campaign.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #11 - CAFE standards
In the space of just three weeks, Kerry produced yet another flip-flop.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #12 - Campaign Finance Reform
John Kerry voted for CFR, yet didn't bother keeping to most of it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #13 - China Trade
For 9 years, John Kerry supported trading with China as one of the most important trading countries, but then he criticised Bush for trading with China.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #14 - Christmas In Cambodia
Kerry claimed President Nixon lied about there being no troops in Cambodia because he was in Cambodia at the time, but Nixon wasn't President at the time and John Kerry now admits to being up to 55 miles from the border.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #15 - Criticising military service/non-service
Kerry said "we do not need to divide America over who served and how", but he now regularly criticises Bush over his military service.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #16 - Cuba
Kerry said he was tough on Castro while campaigning in Florida, but doesn't support legislation against Castro.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #17 - Death Penalty For Terrorists
Kerry was against the death penalty for terrorists, said that "you can't change your mind on life or death issues" [paraphrase]... and then changed his mind on the death penalty for terrorists.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #18 - Donation Limit To PAC
Kerry instituted a $10,000 donation limit on his PAC, and vowed to keep to it, but then changed his mind.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #19 - Double Taxation Of Dividends
Kerry supported the abolition of double taxation, but then changed his mind and voted against it only 5 weeks later.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #20 - Education Reform
Kerry was praised for his stance on education in 1998, yet he switched to the Democrat party line while running for President.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #21 - Education pay
John Kerry flip-flopped in 15 days after pressure from teachers groups over his comment regarding pay-for-performance teachers salaries.
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John Kerr Flip-Flop #22 - Eliminating Marriage Penalty Tax Relief For Middle Class
John Kerry fought to end the penalty, said he'd fight to end it, yet he voted against ending it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #23 - Ethanol
Kerry claims to support ethanol, yet he regularly votes to increase taxes on it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #24 - Federal Health Benefits
Kerry questioned the quality of health care, but then called it "the best health care in the world".
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #25 - Financial Accounting Standards Board
He supported options expensing... but now John Kerry is against it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #26 - First Purple Heart
Kerry claimed to have been wounded by enemy fire, then claimed in his own diary he'd never been shot at.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #27 - Foreign leaders
Kerry flip-flopped in four days over accepting endorsements from foreign leaders.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #28 - Gas Taxation
Kerry voted for higher gax taxes 10 times, but now doesn't support gas taxation anymore.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #29 - Gay Marriage
John Kerry was against gay marriage, voted for it, then said he was against it again.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #30 - Health Coverage
Kerry complained that the Democrats push health care too much, then he pushed pushed health care as being his "passion".
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #31 - His own book, "The New Soldier"
Kerry criticised American soldiers of committing war crimes, then claimed he never said it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #32 - Immigration ban for people with AIDS
Kerry wanted to lift the immigration ban on HIV-positive people after he voted for it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #33 - Internet Taxation
Kerry voted to allow internet taxation to continue, yet he says he doesn't support any tax on the internet.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #34 - Intelligence
Kerry wants to strengthen intelligence, yet he also wants to completely gut spending on intelligence.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #35 - Irish Heritage
Kerry used to claim he had Irish roots, but now says he never said it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #36 - Israel Security Defence
Kerry told the Arab-American Institute that the fence was a barrier to peace, yet he told Jews that it was a legitimate defence.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #37 - Iraq
John Kerry has taken every stance imaginable on the Iraq war
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #38 - Iraq Coalition in 1991
Kerry questioned the strength of the coalition on CBS, yet on NBC he said that President Bush 41 did a "brilliant" job of forming a coalition.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #39 - Iraq 1991
John Kerry voted against the First Gulf War, yet claimed he had "unequivocally supported" the war "from the outset".
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #40 - John Edwards
Kerry attacked Edwards' lack of experience repeatedly throughout the Democratic Primaries, then chose Edwards as his running mate for President.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #41 - Kyoto Treaty
John Kerry says he supports the Kyoto Treaty even though he voted for a bill that declared the United States would never ever ratify it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #42 - Litmus Tests For Judicial Nominees
Kerry promised during the primaries to only appoint justices who favour Roe Vs Wade, but then he said he'd consider appointing judges regardless of their stance on Roe Vs Wade, and now Kerry is in favour of his original stance.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #43 - Mandatory Minimum Sentences
John Kerry voted against them twice, but now he supports them.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #44 - Medical Marijuana
In the space of a month, John Kerry went from effectively endorsing medical marijuana to saying that he wasn't sure and needed more studies.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #45 - Military Experience As Credential For Public Office
First military service shouldn't be a "litmus test" for public office, but then Kerry said Democratic Presidential nominees who didn't serve in the military weren't good candidates.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #46 - NAFTA
Kerry voted for NAFTA, but now he says he'd vote against it because it doesn't have certain standards.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #47 - No Child Left Behind Act
Kerry voted for NCLB, but now he's against it.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #48 - Nuclear waste
John Kerry criticised Bush's decision to use Yucca Mountain as the national repository for nuclear waste, yet in 1999, Kerry encouraged speeding up the making of Yucca Mountain a storage place for nuclear waste.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #49 - PACs
Kerry decryed using PACs money, yet he created his own PAC to help fund his campaign.
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John Kerry Flip-Flop #50 - Patriot Act
John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act and even wrote parts of it himself, but now he blames John Ashcroft for it and wants it scrapped.
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One missing: Kerry said he wasn't at the Kansas City VVAW meeting where assassination of U.S. senators was discussed and then admitted he was, but quit the group that night, when called on it because of released FBI files.
Thanks... I'll add it sometime soon.
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