Kerry Deals Away His Ace in the Hole

At least one Liberal Democrate is having second thoughts about John Kerry. It's like choosing between Goldwater and LBJ. The hawkish rhetoric from John Kerry is beginning to make dyed in the wool liberals cringe !

"Kerry has made a colossal mistake by continuing to defend his October 2002 vote authorizing President Bush's invasion of Iraq.

Last week at the Grand Canyon, Kerry said he would have "voted to give the president the authority to go to war" even if he had known there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction -- Bush's original justification for war on Iraq.

Kerry explained that he believes a president should have the "authority" to go to war, and he voted accordingly. But he insisted that Bush subsequently misused the authority by rushing headlong into combat based on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons arsenal.

Kerry is mistaken on a key point. Under the U.S. Constitution, the president does not have that sole right to declare war. Despite its mindless default, that right still belongs to Congress." - Helen Thomas / Hearst News More ...

Helen Thomas of the White House Press Corps / Hearst Newspapers, a staunch Democratic Liberal and author of the article above is turning on John Kerry. Kerry's flip flop posture has painted him into a corner with respect to his on again-off again support of the war and is becoming a source of sheer frustration for the anti-war supporters on the left. The above comments are from a scathing column she wrote this week sticking it to John Kerry. Clearly, she is no Bush supporter, but what this column does point out is the sheer frustration some Democrats are having with John Kerry's image. Indicating earlier this week that he would have voted to go to war even if he knew there were no WMD in an attempt to justify his vote in Congress, as you recall before Howard Dean showed some spine to take on a different perspective, is just one more reflection of what we can all expect from him as a leader in the White House. Once Kerry saw it work for Dean, he flipped. In fact he has flipped so many times most writters are loosing track of which position he is taking at any given point in time. One might ask, IF Kerry was such a strong supporter for the war, as he rhetoric indicates now, then just why did he vote against aid for the troops? Could it have been the polls at the time made it seem like a good idea ? - zzb