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John Kerry in a “Fighting Mood” now… Ooooooh, I’m really scared…
By Matt Margolis | September 21, 2004
Okay, how many times during this campaign do we have to hear John Kerry tell us he’s “a fighter,” “just starting to fight,” “taking off the gloves,” or most recently, in “a fighting mood?”
Name your cliche, John Kerry has probably used it on this campaign, as if to warn everyone that he’s really hasn’t thrown any punches and is about to go on the offensive…
One speech may not a campaign make, but John Kerry and his top advisers are pumped up and in “a fighting mood” after the Democratic candidate’s aggressive attack on President Bush’s handling of Iraq.
The Massachusetts senator, lagging in opinion polls six weeks before the Nov. 2 election, seems to have kicked a habit of pulling his punches at the last minute and showed a new willingness to mix it up with his Republican rival.
From a scathing address in New York on Monday detailing Bush’s “arrogance and outright incompetence” on Iraq, to a Democratic fund-raiser and on to a Tuesday morning television talk show where he charged that the president was “in denial,” Kerry seems to have found a new lease on political life.
“These guys, they’ve got me in a fighting mood,” Kerry said to roars of approval at a Monday night campaign rally in New York.
Yeah, Kerry, we’re sooooo scared… You’ve been pulling the “fighter” line for months now… I’ll let you know when I flinch.
“Many people have said this was a speech you needed to give,” said Mike McCurry, a Kerry adviser and former White House spokesman for President Bill Clinton. Several Democrats outside the campaign called it a turning point that would force Bush to play defense.
Ah, yes, the “turning point.” Kerry must only now be getting serious right? He’s just now “found his voice,” or something like that.
Ironically, Kerry’s own message hasn’t “pumped up” his camp… it’s his criticism of George W. Bush. What does that say about my senator?
Teresa Heinz-Kerry said of the speech, “There’s a time for everything and it was time for him to take off the gloves.”
There go those gloves again!
It was a welcome change for the Democratic faithful who privately feared their candidate lacked fire, and vindication and for a cadre of new advisers who urged Kerry to land some punches instead of simply shadow boxing with Bush.
So, what has Kerry been doing since primaries? The truth is, the Kerry campaign wants to paint this speech as a turning point in the campaign in order to justify Kerry’s recently dropping poll numbers… Kerry does have to start fighting though, he has to fight to gain back his base, which he has been losing support from for weeks. This is not the turning point of his campaign, it’s the point of no return. Kerry is desperate and this is just the latest strategy to try and save his failing campaign.
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September 22nd, 2004 at 11:00 pm
Too bad he wasn’t in a “fighting mood” after his blazingly short stay in Viet nam. He wasn’t in the mood when we went to Grenada or Panama, or supported Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua (in fact - that episode made him halucinate a visit to Cambodia) Nor was he in the “mood” after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Nor when he, and everyone else tought Iraq had WMD’s. No wait, he was in the mood, no he wasn’t, well he was but didn’t want to spend money on it. Or well, actually I don’t know if he stands for anything nor wants to fight for anything beyond personal power.
Heard about his wifes new book? It’s titled “It takes a villa”