John Kerry backed a non-discriminatory policy for the armed forces when Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich tied the issue around the newly elected Bill Clinton's neck in 1992. Instead of using his "Press Honeymoon" to get a progressive agenda instituted, let alone accomplished, the VRWC bashed and bashed at Clinton for ever having brought the subject up in the campaign. Of course the "don't ask, don't tell" triangulation just put the issue on the back burner and got everybody frustrated.
More recently, Kerry let go on the emotionally repressed Senator Rick Santorum:
Boston, MA – John Kerry today issued the following statement regarding the remarks made by Senator Rick Santorum:
John Kerry said, “The White House speaks the rhetoric of compassionate conservatism but they’re silent while their chief lieutenants make divisive and hurtful comments that have no place in our politics. The White House says Santorum is ‘one of the original compassionate conservatives’ who ‘has a philosophy that’s good for the people of Pennsylvania no matter who they are.’ Every day in our country, gay and lesbian Americans get up, go to work, pay their taxes, support their families, and contribute to the nation they love. These comments take us backwards in America.”
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