Jack Kemp: Clinton, Kerry Are 'Hypocritical, Sad and Pathetic'

From ThinkProgress (video and text at link):

Kemp: Clinton and Kerry Are ‘Hypocritical, Sad and Pathetic’ For Supporting Lamont

Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) announced yesterday that he has invited former congressman and conservative activist Jack Kemp to campaign with him in Connecticut. “He called me after the primary, he’s a good friend, and I’m grateful,” Lieberman said.

Kemp is off to a rousing start. Yesterday on Fox, Kemp smeared Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), John Kerry (D-MA) and others who are backing Lamont as “hypocritical, sad and pathetic.” He also falsely attacked Lieberman’s opponent Ned Lamont, baselessly claiming that Lamont wants to pull out of Iraq “tomorrow.”

Transcript:

It is pathetic for the Democratic leadership, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who should know better, to really drop this type of political poison on their former Vice Presidential candidate that they proudly campaigned for in 2000, particularly so, Neil, after they voted for war, they voted for the appropriations to try to provide some democratic freedoms in Afghanistan and Iraq. And now for them to come out for Ned Lamont, who wants to pull out tomorrow, which would leave a gaping hole in our Mideast policy. It would redound to the benefit of Iran. Iran has pledged to wipe out Israel off the face of the map. I just think it is hypocritical, sad and pathetic.

Be sure to watch the video so you can catch the tone... my, that's rich, isn't it? A former, failed vice-presidential candidate hooks up with a former, failed (sorta) vice-presidential candidate. We already knew about that, but ol' Jack Kemp isn't wasting any time in notching up the kind of rhetoric that will appeal to the right wing, is he?

They say you can judge a man (Lieberman?) by the kind of company he keeps, you know.

He can bend over and be Rove's b*tch. Oh wait, he already has.

Who? How is this thread relevant to Mike Malloy?

Enjoy your stay!

Reds-Dodgers playoff. Bring it!

- "Karl Rove got Mike Malloy fired to detract from the Rumsfeld speech" - by Jason Leopold

- What? Another Malloy thread?

I'm feeling bipolar.

Fine. You want the Padres or St Louis more?

From the ongoing JonBenet Malloy saga.

I would definitely prefer the Reds. We can beat them! The Padres have owned us all season. Go Reds! Except for tonight.

Professional football player who got a deferrment from military service because of a bad knee.

Another Chickenhawk takes flight from his coop!!!!!

Typical.

Comments he makes are not worth the bandwidth to respond to!

... who voted for Dole/Kemp just because he had met one of Kemp's daughters at a sorority mixer.

Them are some unimpeachable standards.

And they say Lieberman's not working with Rove! Ha!

Did you guys know that Iran attacked us on 9/11?

Where was he when we needed him in Vietnam?

EDIT...I'll answer my own question...Jack was playing games, when 58,000 troops were dying in Nam.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6845383/site/newsweek

Kemp today confirmed that the FBI interviewed him last October about his contacts with Samir A. Vincent, a Northern Virginia oil trader who on Tuesday pled guilty to four criminal charges, including violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq and failing to register with the Justice Department as an agent of Saddam Hussein.

Specifically, the indictment states that Vincent illegally lobbied U.S. officials on behalf of the Iraqi government and received in exchange, along with unidentified co-conspirators, “millions of dollars in cash” as well as allocations for more than 9 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil under the Oil-for-Food program.

Sources familiar with the investigation say that Kemp, who was Bob Dole’s running mate in the 1996 presidential election, had a number of contacts with Vincent, which have been closely scrutinized by federal prosecutors. The contacts began in the late 1990s when Vincent—who Justice officials say was secretly acting as an Iraqi government agent—approached Kemp and offered to work with him on a plan that could have led to the easing of sanctions on Saddam’s regime.

Over several years continuing until 2003, Vincent talked to Kemp roughly once a month about his proposal to improve U.S.-Iraqi relations, according to Kemp and Lanny Davis, a Washington lawyer and friend of Kemp’s who discussed the matter with him and offered to speak for him to NEWSWEEK on this matter. Davis, who was the former White House special counsel to President Clinton, said the discussions took place when Vincent would either come by Kemp’s office in Washington or call him on the phone.

Zing!!!

God, if people didn't think Lieberman was a crackpot-by-association yet, they'd best now.

Kerry wore olive drab, Kemp wore chickenhawk yellow.