March 14, 2004

NOW HE'S JUST BECOMING PATHOLOGICAL:

Kerry's stances on Cuba open to attack (PETER WALLSTEN, 3/14.04, Miami Herald)

''I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,'' Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning.

Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: ``And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.''

It seemed the correct answer in a year in which Democratic strategists think they can make a play for at least a portion of the important Cuban-American vote -- as they did in 1996 when more than three in 10 backed President Clinton's reelection after he signed the sanctions measure written by Sen. Jesse Helms and Rep. Dan Burton.

There is only one problem: Kerry voted against it.


For someone who's been wrong as consistently as Mr. Kerry, flip-flopping may just be a healthy sign of repeatedly acknowledging error, but lying is another matter.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 14, 2004 10:58 AM
Comments

The problem with flip-flopping on everything is that with so many issues a presidential candidate has to deal with, you just can't remember which side of a position you were on at any particular time.

This gaffe may not get major play anyplace outside of South Florida, but given Kerry's need to cut into Bush's support among the Florida Cuban commuinty, if it becomes any sort of factor at all just down there it's bad news for his campaign.

Posted by: John at March 14, 2004 11:14 AM

The problem with JF***Kerry's flip-flopping is that they aren't a statistically random Brownian motion, but the trend is there if you look for it-- he never met a Leftist thug he didn't like, he never met an intrusive expansion of government that didn't need even more money.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 14, 2004 12:29 PM

The media may give Kerry softballs and free puff coverage, but if he starts abusing them, he will regret it. His Roger Mudd interview is coming, any day now.

Posted by: jim hamlen at March 14, 2004 1:20 PM

Yes Jim Hamlen, that Roger Mudd is a brutal interrogator.

He asked Ted Kennedy why he wanted to be President.

Posted by: h-man at March 14, 2004 2:28 PM
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