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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 11:30 AM
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20. Some clues on what the Right did to actually make Kerry "anti-war"
In case you were asleep, the Right used Kerry's stances as an anti-war candidate who voted against the first Gulf War as well as used his votes against weapons systems (all done with the usual deceptive tirades) to paint him as "anti-war".

The Swifties were more aligned with thinking that Kerry WAS an anti-war protestor when he came back in 1971 after serving in Vietnam.

I know the recent Kerry-bashing parlor talk seems to be under the illusion (as Soros mispointed out) that if Kerry was more 'anti-war", he would have won.

Again, this notion shows that some people haven't done their homework on the issue and are shooting from the hip with more Monday Morning Quarterback Myths.
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  -What if Kerry had been a clearly anti-war candidate? Jokerman  Jan-31-05 10:46 AM   #0 
  - He would've won. nt  CWebster   Jan-31-05 10:47 AM   #1 
  - He would not have won because the sheeple are scared shitless  rosebud57   Jan-31-05 10:48 AM   #2 
  - Easily!  MisterLiberal   Jan-31-05 10:53 AM   #7 
  - ABSOLUTELY. And I would have probably supported him before Dean. nt  BullGooseLoony   Jan-31-05 05:45 PM   #31 
  - He'd have to frame it in an fiesty way and flat out call Bush a liar  yurbud   Jan-31-05 10:48 AM   #3 
  - You can't be an anti war candidate and win. Why because the nation  xultar   Jan-31-05 10:50 AM   #4 
  - The poll question is regarding "anti-Iraq war"...  IrateCitizen   Jan-31-05 10:52 AM   #6 
  - Could he be forcefully for it since he voted for it?  xultar   Jan-31-05 11:53 AM   #22 
     - Sure. I was simply trying to clarify what I perceived to be...  IrateCitizen   Jan-31-05 11:59 AM   #23 
        - No offense taken. n/t  xultar   Jan-31-05 12:10 PM   #24 
  - That is such a load of crap  CWebster   Jan-31-05 11:00 AM   #14 
  - Amen  lyonn   Jan-31-05 11:07 PM   #35 
  - George McGovern n/t  Blue_In_AK   Feb-01-05 12:09 AM   #38 
  - Kerry's biggest misstep, IMHO...  IrateCitizen   Jan-31-05 10:51 AM   #5 
  - Avoiding a real dialogue on the war was the PURPOSE of  JoshK   Jan-31-05 11:09 AM   #16 
     - Thanks for highlighting these important facts, JoshK  IrateCitizen   Jan-31-05 11:15 AM   #18 
     - Hey, thanks!  JoshK   Jan-31-05 12:58 PM   #28 
     - Welcome and good post  lyonn   Jan-31-05 11:14 PM   #36 
  - I think if his position on Iraq was clearer he would have won  WI_DEM   Jan-31-05 10:54 AM   #8 
  - He would've lost big  ramapo   Jan-31-05 10:54 AM   #9 
  - He'd have been the perfect candidate if only he'd said something like  gottaB   Jan-31-05 10:55 AM   #10 
  - And stuck to that position.  Jokerman   Jan-31-05 11:06 AM   #15 
  - You can't change the fact that the election was stolen again  liberal N proud   Jan-31-05 10:58 AM   #11 
  - I voted for he would have gotten less support  pstans   Jan-31-05 10:59 AM   #12 
  - You're asking Kerry to take a position that he didn't support.  stopbush   Jan-31-05 10:59 AM   #13 
  - A hypothetical question, to be sure.  Jokerman   Jan-31-05 11:11 AM   #17 
  - He might have had a better chance except for one thing....  AntiCoup2K4   Jan-31-05 11:18 AM   #19 
  - Some clues on what the Right did to actually make Kerry "anti-war"  zulchzulu   Jan-31-05 11:30 AM   #20 
  - The problem in all of this was a lack of dialogue...  IrateCitizen   Jan-31-05 11:41 AM   #21 
  - Not asleep, nor bashing anyone.  Jokerman   Jan-31-05 12:21 PM   #26 
     - My point is that Kerry was pro-war to some and anti-war to others  zulchzulu   Jan-31-05 10:51 PM   #34 
        - Try READING my post before spewing insults.  Jokerman   Feb-01-05 08:53 AM   #41 
  - "cut and run"  sandnsea   Jan-31-05 12:19 PM   #25 
  - The advantage would've been  CWebster   Jan-31-05 12:22 PM   #27 
  - Kerry could have been Jesus himself and Bush still would have won.  cindyw   Jan-31-05 01:05 PM   #29 
  - lol  seito   Jan-31-05 05:54 PM   #33 
  - He would have lost so long as people were only thinking about war.  AP   Jan-31-05 01:08 PM   #30 
  - More support from WHO? The right or the left?  LittleClarkie   Jan-31-05 05:52 PM   #32 
  - Kerry was unmistakably AGAINST the Iraq war and if you'd watched the 3rd  marcologico   Jan-31-05 11:16 PM   #37 
     - Deans not anti-war. He's anti Iraq War  Capn Sunshine   Feb-01-05 12:38 AM   #39 
        - Their positions are identical based on Dean's own "policy" statements.  marcologico   Feb-01-05 02:22 AM   #40 
 

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