[Twilly Spree]

The Republican side that is.

In 2001 he held an introductionary speech for a man. Here it is:

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"It is good to be back in Georgia and to be with you. I have been coming to these dinners since the 1950s, and have missed very few.


I'm proud to be Georgia's junior senator and I'm honored to serve with Max Cleland, who is as loved and respected as anyone in that body. One of our very highest priorities must be to make sure this man is re-elected in 2002 so he can continue to serve this state and nation.


I continue to be impressed with all that Governor Barnes and Lieutenant Governor Taylor and the Speaker and the General Assembly are getting done over at the Gold Dome. Georgia is fortunate to have this kind of leadership.


My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend.


He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.


In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.


Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.


John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."

John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 – when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country.


John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America.


He is married to Teresa Heinz and they have two daughters.


As many of you know, I have great affection – some might say an obsession – for my two Labrador retrievers, Gus and Woodrow. It turns out John is a fellow dog lover, too, and he better be. His German Shepherd, Kim, is about to have puppies. And I just want him to know … Gus and Woodrow had nothing to do with that.


Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Senator John Kerry."

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http://miller.senate.gov/speeches/030101jjdinner.htm

Well that was some ass-kissing. Whatever. Fine. Then scantly 2 years later he's talking like this:

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"You can't make a chicken swim, and you can't make John Kerry anything but an out-of-touch ultraliberal from Taxachussetts."

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2105700/



Discuss™

[Mithras]

But September 11 Changed Everything.

Seriously, agreed, some people are chumps no matter whose "side" they're on at the moment.

[BRussell]

Originally posted by Mithras:
But September 11 Changed Everything.

In case people miss this reference, that was Zell's excuse for changing his mind about Kerry. From his WSJ op-ed:

And my critics love to point out that I had nice things to say about John Kerry when I introduced him to a Georgia Democratic dinner in 2001. That's true and I meant it. But, again, timing is everything. I made that introduction in March 2001--six months before terrorists attacked this country on Sept. 11. As I have said time and again, 9/11 changed everything. Everything, that is, except the national Democrats' shameful, manic obsession with bringing down a commander in chief. John Kerry has been wrong many times, but he's never been more wrong than in his failure to support our troops and our commander in chief in this war on terror.

And as I read that last sentence, he's basically saying that it's wrong to politically criticize the president.

You Repubs can have him.

[zigzag]

I was disappointed that after presenting 3 impressive speakers - McCain, Giuliani, Schwarzenegger - and giving me hope for the Republican Party, it selected Miller as its Keynote Speaker. I was disappointed not because he's a hawk, but because he's a drooling, fire-breathing idiot. Having demonstrated that he has zero intellectual honesty, neither party should want anything to do with him (not that the Democrats wouldn't love to see him change allegiances again ).

9/11 changed some things but it didn't cause Kerry or Bush to have any more or less integrity as human beings or politicians. At least a McCain can disagree with Kerry, and support Bush, without casting aspersions and contradicting himself.

[Mrjinglesusa]

And my critics love to point out that I had nice things to say about John Kerry when I introduced him to a Georgia Democratic dinner in 2001. That's true and I meant it. But, again, timing is everything. I made that introduction in March 2001--six months before terrorists attacked this country on Sept. 11. As I have said time and again, 9/11 changed everything. Everything, that is, except the national Democrats' shameful, manic obsession with bringing down a commander in chief. John Kerry has been wrong many times, but he's never been more wrong than in his failure to support our troops and our commander in chief in this war on terror.

Hmmm, kind of like the Republicans with Clinton. Difference is, that was lying about sex and the Democrat's opposition to Bush is about lying about war. I wonder which is worse? Nevermind, I do know. To Republicans, sex is obviously a worse offense than justifying a war on false pretenses.

[Saad]

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
Hmmm, kind of like the Republicans with Clinton. Difference is, that was lying about sex and the Democrat's opposition to Bush is about lying about war. I wonder which is worse? Nevermind, I do know. To Republicans, sex is obviously a worse offense than justifying a war on false pretenses.

Gingrich resigned amidst charges of an extramarital affiar in 1998 (probably resigned because his party lost a lot of seats, but I'm sure this had something to do with it).