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RUSH: John Kerry, after &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/BL2007012500416.html”>”droning”&lt;\/a> on for half an hour yesterday on the Senate floor — and that is a great way to describe Senator Kerry\u2019s speech pattern. He drones. Sounds like he\u2019s practically meditating out loud. He ended up tearing up over his lost dream of being president. Now, contrast this vain, self-centered Brahman — you know, he\u2019s the exact opposite of most men. He got where he is by hitching his wagon to a wealthy divorcee. Most men get there on their own. But that\u2019s another story. He\u2019s up there crying on the Senate floor, he\u2019s so sensitive and he\u2019s so sad. Contrast that with Bush, got the weight of the world on his shoulders, remains confident, centered, optimistic. Here\u2019s Senator Kerry yesterday at the big moment.<\/line> KERRY: We came close, Mr. President, certainly close enough to being tempted to try again. There are powerful reasons to want to continue that fight now. But I\u2019ve concluded this isn\u2019t the time for me to mount a presidential campaign. The people of Massachusetts have given me an incredible privilege to serve, and I intend to work here to change a policy in Iraq that threatens all that I\u2019ve cared about and fought for since I came home from Vietnam. The fact is —<\/line>RUSH: Sobbing there.<\/line>KERRY: — that what happens here in the next two years may irrevocably shape or terribly distort the administration of whichever candidate is next elected president.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, it might, but it could also — this is total doom and gloom and pessimism and defeatism. I think the deal they made with him, ?Senator, look ?? this is Democrats ?– get out of this and we\u2019ll see to it that you get elected in Massachusetts as long as you want. You can wreck Massachusetts all you want, you come crying on the Senate floor, do whatever you want to do, go windsurf, go skiing, whatever, just don\u2019t run for president again. We\u2019ll let you have Massachusetts.? Senator Kennedy then talked about his fallen comrade as if he had died.<\/line>KENNEDY: I know how difficult decision this is for Senator Kerry. And I say to the people of the country how proud we are of John Kerry. I think all of us in Massachusetts know what an outstanding senator he has been for our state —<\/line>RUSH: Really?<\/line>KENNEDY: — and for our country. He\u2019s been a true hero in every sense of the word.<\/line>RUSH: Does it sound like he believes this?<\/line><\/p>\n

KENNEDY: And he\u2019s been my colleague who I?ve valued the opportunity to work with. And most of all, he\u2019s been my friend.<\/line> RUSH: You know, this sounds like somebody faking sadness, wanting to come across as though they\u2019re really impacted by this, but just can\u2019t quite pull it off. In fact, it was Senator Kennedy recently who said, ?Look, if he doesn\u2019t make up his mind soon I\u2019m not supporting him in \u201908, I\u2019ve gotta move on.? Believe me, folks, there\u2019s always stuff that we don\u2019t know in addition to what we\u2019re shown, and I guarantee you, the fact that the advisors are saying it was the botched joke means that the riot act was read to this guy behind closed doors. ?Look, we got too big a chance here to win ?? well, it was a joke. Nobody had to do anything with the joke. The joke was what it was, it reverberated all the way to the green zone in Baghdad on its own, got there its own wings, didn\u2019t even need a prayer to get there. Dingy Harry then gives a very creepy farewell to Kerry, saying that Bush stole the presidency from him.<\/line>REID: He\u2019s a war hero, a war hero. John Kerry was my nominee —<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape. John Kerry is alive, folks, in case you\u2019re wondering. These are not eulogies. These are just two guys going to the floor of the Senate to react to Kerry saying he\u2019s not going to run for president!<\/line>REID: — for president of the United States. I believed in John Kerry. John Kerry came within a few votes of being president of the United States, in one of the dirtiest, most negative, unfair campaigns I have ever witnessed. To try to take away from this man his gallantry as a war fighter was beyond the pale, but they did it. John Kerry and I have shared heartache together.<\/line>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s to much more.<\/line>REID: So I say to John Kerry, I love you, John Kerry, and I am so sorry that things didn\u2019t work out for our country. But that doesn\u2019t take away from the fact that I will always care about you greatly and remember the times that we\u2019ve spent together.<\/line>RUSH: Could we maybe have a reframe here of the Requiem for the Common Man? Things didn\u2019t work out for the country — that\u2019s what he said. I\u2019m so sorry things didn\u2019t work out for our country, but that doesn\u2019t take away from the fact that I will always care about you greatly and remember the times that we have spent together. Are they not going to spend any more time together? They\u2019re going to both still be in the Senate. Things didn\u2019t work out for the country. I think this is just one of these collegial tributes, because these two guys are probably instrumental in telling him, ?You are not running and embarrassing this party again,? and this is the payback. Oh, I watched a little bit of it yesterday on C-SPAN2 and they had the camera on Kerry, but they don\u2019t pan so you don\u2019t know who else was in there. But I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Kennedy and Reid were the only two guys in there when this was all happening, but that\u2019s irrelevant. Anyway, just funny stuff, funny stuff, mind-boggling.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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