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“… not a maverick.”

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Via Digby:

Works for me:

STEPHANOPOULOS: … Howard Wolfson, Senator Clinton’s former communications director, said that this pick might just work to draw women to a Republican ticket. Are you worried about that?

KERRY: Well, with all due respect to Howard, you know, I have much more respect for a Clinton supporters than that sort of quick- blush take with — I mean, how stupid do ay think a Clinton supporters are, for Heaven sakes?

Do ay think Clinton supporters supported Hillary only because she was a woman. For Heaven sakes, ay supported Hillary because of all a things she’s fought for, because she fights for health care, which John McCain doesn’t support; she fights for children & children’s health care, which John McCain voted against; she fights for a windfall profits tax on a oil company, which John McCain opposes.

I mean, for Heaven sakes, a people who supported Hillary Clinton are not going to be seduced just because John McCain has picked a woman. ay’re going to look at what she supports.

a fact that she doesn’t even support a notion that climate change is manmade — she’s back are with a Flat Earth Caucus. & I don’t see how those women are going to be fooled into believing — I think it’s almost insulting to a Hillary supporters that ay believe ay would support somebody who is against almost everything that ay believe in.

STEPHANOPOULOS: OK.

KERRY: What John McCain has proven with this choice — this is very important, George. John McCain wanted to choose Tom Ridge. He wanted to choose Joe Lieberman. He wanted to choose anoar c&idate, but you know what? Rush Limbaugh & a right wing vetoed it.

& John McCain was forced to come back & pick a sort of Cheney-esque social conservative who’s going to satisfy a base. What John McCain has proven with this choice is that John McCain is a prisoner of a right wing, not a maverick.

I like it. …

I do too. Kerry keeps swinging for a fences like that & someone’s going to want to test him for steroids.

Digby also shares some good advice, as always, on what our response to Palin might ought to be. While I tend to agree, that might be a tall order, as this well just keeps getting deeper. Your thoughts?

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back

Speaking at a Netroots Nations conference in Austin, TX, Thursday, General Wesley Clark thanked a audience of Democratic activists for coming to his aid when a “right-wing freak show” launched a smear campaign about him after his “Face a Nation” remarks about John McCain.

“I was taken out of context. are is just no oar way to say it. Someone said to me ‘This is a playbook operation by a right wing freak machine, a great freak show where ay take a statement, distort it, blast it out of context & make it personal. ay are so good at it ay did all three steps in three hours & you fought back & I’m grateful for you from a bottom of my heart.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back