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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: McCauliffe gives Kerry the "what for" |
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The next time you read how Kerry's "aggressive" response to the SVPT allegations was thwarted by MSM duplicity and complicity (to this day, one of the most AMAZINGLY absurd postulates proffered by Kerry et al), refer them to Terry McAulliffe...
| Quote: | McAuliffe Rips Kerry `Malpractice' in Memoir: Margaret Carlson
By Margaret Carlson
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Political memoirs are always plump with exaggeration. Grandiosity comes with the territory. In Terry McAuliffe's ``What a Party: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals,'' there's a thin book inside a fat one crying to get out. Like its title, the reminiscences are overlong and too carefully vetted.
Still, it is satisfying to see the former Democratic National Committee chair take off the gloves and wax furious with Sen. John Kerry for blowing the 2004 campaign.
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Where the candor comes in is in attacking not just Republicans but the party's candidate in 2004, John Kerry.
What ticked off McAuliffe the most is that Kerry was hoarding money -- $15 million -- while Ohio was lost. He comes close to calling the campaign managers, if not their standard- bearer, liars for not revealing that they had the cash when it could have won some close Senate races if not the presidency. What were they saving it for? It was ``gross incompetence,'' he wrote, ``un-*******-believable.''
Sucker Punches
Equally infuriating was Kerry's unwillingness to respond to the relentless sucker punches thrown by the opposition. For a scrapper like McAuliffe -- who tells a ripping tale of wrestling an alligator, whose jaw muscles carry a thousand pounds of pressure, for a $15,000 campaign contribution -- you return every blow. McAuliffe pounds Kerry for dodging the Swift Boat Veterans attacks; McAuliffe, for his part, punched back every chance he got.
When Matt Lauer asked the president, ``Can we win the war on terror?'' and Bush replied, ``I don't think you can win it,'' McAuliffe couldn't wait to get Kerry from Nantucket to a heartland location to respond -- but couldn't reach the candidate or anyone on his campaign staff. When he turned on the network news that night, he saw his nightmare come to life.
``There was John in the water with his Windsurfer,'' he writes, ``being asked if he could win the war on terror. `Absolutely,''' he said, continuing to sway in the breeze.
`Political Malpractice'
McAuliffe sums up Kerry's decision to back off criticism of Bush as one of the ``biggest acts of political malpractice in the history of American politics.''
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Bloomberg - cont'd |
However, is it POSSIBLE that McAuliffe thinks Kerry even HAD a response to give? I doubt it. Despite the public chest thumping and political posturing, those who count KNOW the truth about Kerry...and they can't publicly own up to their own gross misjudgement and misrepresentation of his character. |
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