Rush's "Dean Attack" on Kerry (transcript) (for your amusement and anger)

Why Kerry Can't Stay on Message

RUSH: So John Kerry is out there saying that W "stands for wrong." He said yesterday that Iraq "was the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time," which translates to: "We'd be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power," and it represents another flip-flop! Bill Kristol today, writing at the Weekly Standard's website, said that this whole view that Iraq is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time is a... Let me say something about this first, because this just goes to show exact -- this is the one thread, this thin little thread, that the Democrat campaign hinges on, is that they can convince a majority of voters that Iraq was the wrong thing to do, that Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism, that Iraq is nothing more than a personal quest of Bush and Cheney for whatever conspiratorial personal reasons they have -- and that's the strength of their campaign! Now, they say they're going to try to go back to health care and all this other stuff, but Kerry has once again come out with a new position on Iraq.

As Kristol writes, "Not an unheard of point of view. Indeed as President Bush pointed out today, it was Howard Dean's position during the primary season. On December 15th, 2003, in a speech at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, Howard Dean said that, quote, 'The capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer,' unquote. Dean also said, 'The difficulties and tragedies we faced in Iraq show the administration launched the war in the wrong way at the wrong time, with inadequate planning, insufficient help, and at the extraordinary cost so far of $166 billion.'" So Kerry is now plagiarizing Howard Dean, the man he vanquished for the nomination! But when Dean said this, when Dean said, "This is the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong way," who challenged Howard Dean at that moment? Anybody want to take a guess?

It was old Lurch! "John Kerry, December 16th, the next day, at Drake University in Iowa, Kerry asserted that, quote: 'Those who doubted whether the Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president.'" This is stunning. So Howard Dean says, "Wrong place, wrong war, wrong time," wrong whatever. Kerry today, over the weekend, decides (Kerry sing-song voice), "You know what? I liiike that. My staff caaan use what old Hoooward was saying." Kerry apparently forgot that he repudiated what Howard Dean said himself. We are smack-dab in the -- I don't care who you have on your campaign staff, they can't square this. When anybody can go out and recite quotes from Kerry and show he him all over the map. Here is how Bush dealt with this at a campaign rally in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, last night.

BUSH: After voting for the war but against funding it, after saying he would have voted for the war even knowing everything we know today, my opponent woke up this morning with new campaign advisors (Crowd laughter) and yet another new position. (Crowd laughter) Suddenly he's against it again.

RUSH: And he's doing so in the words of Howard Dean. At Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which is just south of my hometown of Cape Girardeau, President Bush said, "'The war in Iraq was right for America,' rebutting Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry's contention that it was 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time,'" which again is a lifted quote from Howard Dean. "At a stop in Missouri on the traditional opening day of the campaign, Bush scolded his opponent for what he characterized as waffling on the Iraq war, took a jab at a Democratic campaign that appears troubled amid a shuffling of top staffers," and then he said what we just aired for you. "The latest Gallup poll, CNN/USA Today, likely voters taken Friday through Sunday puts Bush at 52 over Kerry's 45; 1% for Ralph Nader. At a campaign stop in West Virginia Kerry fired back saying the president's 'rush to war' cost the U.S. 200 billion that could have been used for domestic spending initiatives that he favors."

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I'm telling you this now--Bush, Rush and Rove are going to regret ever bringing Dean into this. They've just given Dean a chance to seriously get down and dirty with them. This is one of the best things that they could have done for Kerry. Dean has nothing to lose and a media that loves confrontations. Kerry can easily distance himself from Dean if he needs to and Dean can ride Bush's ass from now until election day...and because Dean's "safe" (In other words--he can't win) the media will cover this new political "duel", as someone in BN called this.

Stupid, stupid Republicans.

As rare as it is for me to say this, Limpdick's got his facts right for once. Kerry and the other DLC candidates were all over Dean for calling out Bush on Iraq, and stating for a fact that the capture of Saddam Hussein did not do SHIT to make America safer.

Howard Dean should NEVER retract those statements. Kerry should admit that Dean was right, and that Bush was wrong.

And in doing so, neutralize Oxycontin breath.