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Yep, that\u2019s what we all need. I think it\u2019s time to address this strategy of his head on. Frankly, we haven\u2019t done a whole lot on the French-looking John Kerry here because I think he\u2019s barely, frankly, been in the top tier, front tier in terms of poll numbers, in terms of presence. It\u2019s just not happening. It\u2019s not happening for any of them – especially Kerry, given expectations. Now, the overwhelming majority of Americans have never served in the military. And for those who have, we all say “thank you” a thousand times over. Your fellow citizens owe you a great debt of gratitude. I have never and will never question John Kerry\u2019s service in the military, and nobody should. And I don\u2019t think anybody has. But, boy, he invites it. He invites it with this constant reminder that he served. But I\u2019ll tell you, there are other things to question about John Kerry, and that\u2019s his service in elective office. I\u2019m not going to look back on his days in Vietnam; they\u2019re over and done with and that\u2019s not an area that we\u2019re going to criticize here, but you can look at his record as senator from Massachusetts and you can draw some conclusions. He\u2019s a big-government Massachusetts liberal. During his time in the Senate, the single most important area Kerry has voted to cut spending for the military. That is what he is most known for, that is what his most consistent voting record shows. <\/line> I kid you not. During his service in the Senate, the single most important area where Kerry has voted to cut spending is the military. He supported Clinton\u2019s cuts on defense, and that means cutting spending for training, for equipment, for benefits and the like. Now, I would have thought that somebody with Kerry\u2019s military record wouldn\u2019t be so liberal and wouldn\u2019t have gone along with such cuts, but he is, and he did. That\u2019s his record as a senator. That\u2019s no reason to assume it will change because he might become president. He can run out there and say all these things – he\u2019s going to have the most powerful military, he\u2019s going to have the most well-equipped, he\u2019s going to have the most best trained. He\u2019s voted against all that! Where are the reporters on a campaign trail reminding him of this? Senator, how you going to bring this about? This doesn\u2019t jibe with your record in the Senate. Why aren\u2019t you telling us with pride what you did when you were in the Senate? Why are you giving us a plan, a program that is in diametric opposition to the way you voted in the U.S. Senate? Now, are we to believe, senator, the way you voted or what you tell us you\u2019re going to do? And why are you going to do something so drastically different than the way you voted? What\u2019s changed, senator? Just because you\u2019ve become a presidential candidate?<\/line><\/p>\n

This, to me, is why he ought not be president. Right now, we are at war. There is a war against terrorism. This is it; this is a life-and-death struggle. He was an outstanding soldier, but he\u2019s a terrible politician. He\u2019s a not a wartime leader, and his public record proves it. And there are other things beside his record of defense cutting. I mean he has no scruples or principles when it comes to commanding the military, and here\u2019s the proof. As a senator in 1991 John Kerry voted against the Gulf War resolution. Yet in 1998 when Bill Clinton launched some cruise missiles in Iraq, Kerry strongly supported it. Last fall he voted for the joint congressional resolution authorizing the president to use military force against Iraq, but since then he has made a variety of statements and arguments trying to downplay his vote saying it would have been different if he\u2019d have known what he knows now, and all this has been brought about because of the attractiveness of Howard Dean\u2019s extreme left-wing anti-war propaganda to the Democrat base. We\u2019re not getting what John Kerry really thinks. We\u2019re getting what John Kerry thinks he has to say to keep up with Dean. Dean is leading the pack, he\u2019s activating and agitating and enthusing all of the liberal Democrat kook primary voters, and Kerry sees the need to keep up.<\/line> <\/line>He\u2019s all over the board here, “Yeah, I voted for the resolution last fall, but I wouldn\u2019t have if I\u2019d have known then what I know now.” Well, nobody could have known what was going to happen for certain. He\u2019s not even willing to stand by his vote now. He\u2019s got to make excuses for it, whether his audience is a bunch of labor people or a standard Democratic primary election audience. I mean to me this stuff reeks of not being a serious public figure. It\u2019s his record in the Senate and as a candidate for president that deserves criticism, not his military service, and that\u2019s long ago. I mean, the only thing you can draw from his military service is what I said earlier; how can he have that phase in his life and now have evolved to where he is? It doesn\u2019t make intellectual sense. And when you examine John Kerry\u2019s approach, you find out that intellectual sense is not the objective here. Outrunning Howard Dean getting to the left is. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

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