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RUSH: I mentioned yesterday that John Kerry is going to have some trouble on the campaign trail because he's got a record that is going to be very difficult to defend, and this is one of the reasons why so many surrogates are out there speaking for Kerry, and no sooner did I say that than Morton Kondracke has put together a mini list of things that Kerry has voted for over the years and voted against that are going to add up to causing him problems.
"In speeches, Kerry claims to have fought for various causes this Congress. Well, it's hard to name a major piece of legislation that bears his name. Chief Democratic rival Howard Dean has pointedly observed, for instance, that Kerry voted not to fight the 1991 Persian Gulf War after Iraq had invaded Kuwait but then voted to give President Bush power to fight the 2003 war, which a huge majority of Democrats opposed. The dossier on Kerry also includes - and I told you about this - a 1995 proposal to cut intelligence funding by $300 million over five years, a 1994 proposal to cut $1 billion from the program that coordinates counterterrorism activities."
Here's our boy, John Kerry, voted for a 1994 proposal to cut $1 billion from the program that coordinates counterterrorism activities. The Boston Globe observed last year that in 1984 Kerry said he would cancel the B-1 bomber and the B-2 stealth bomber, that he would cancel the Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile, the F-15, the F-14, and Harrier jets, and the Aegis air defense cruiser. Well, hell, that's a pretty big chunk of modern military that he would have just cancelled the B-1, the B2, the Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile, the F-15, the F-14 - what are we going to have left? We're going to have Bradley personnel carriers but nothing to defend the guys in them. The Boston Globe also reported he advocated cuts in other systems, including the, oh wait, I'm wrong. The Bradley vehicle. He wanted to cut the Bradley vehicle. Cuts in the Abrams tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle, and Tomahawk missile programs, all critical to U.S. military success in Afghanistan and Iraq. How's he going to defend this? I mean he'll come up with a way, he's a Democrat, he'll parse it, but this is not stuff that you really want to run for as commander-in-chief on. And while Kerry legitimately surrounds himself with fellow Vietnam War veterans and protests Republican cuts in veterans programs, opponents point out that Kerry never sought an appointment to the Veterans Affairs Committee where he could have had an impact on policy.
Lots of cuts, just as I've told you, lots of votes to get rid of various aspects of the military and intelligence gathering, counterterrorism operations. He's got a lot of explaining to do here. I've watched this debate last night, and there's all this analysis, who was the best debater, who won the thing last night – and you throw Brokaw out because he's clearly the best guy on the stage - but you have to say that Kerry won that debate no matter what he said no matter how he looked because nobody attacked him. If they did, they didn't succeed at it. He's the front-runner, they've got this record. Now, what does this tell you? He's got this record, not even Lieberman, Lieberman doesn't believe all this stuff, Lieberman didn't vote this way, Lieberman is trying to gain some ground. Lieberman did try to take some unpopular Democratic positions last night, and it was gutsy to watch him try it but he just didn't have that verve and passion behind it. He stood up for NAFTA and I thought that audience was going to get up and walk out of there, you know, South Carolina they've lost all these textile jobs and they blame it on NAFTA. Somebody look up how big a part of South Carolina agriculture is tobacco? Find that. I know it's big in North Carolina and I know John Edwards running around talking about the two Americas, and in North Carolina, a lot of the agricultural jobs lost are in the tobacco business because of the Democrats' pursuit of tobacco companies. And I don't know what the percentage of agricultural output in South Carolina is tobacco, but there might be some there that would help to explain some of those losses. But Lieberman is out there saying, hey, we've had a net gain in this country of jobs, because of NAFTA.
There was ice in that room. I mean, it was just dead quiet. He said we've got to tackle this business we cannot put up a wall around this country and stop being who we are simply because of trade. He said South Carolina exports something, a hundred and some odd thousand export jobs in South Carolina, and if you anti-NAFTA guys get your way, those jobs are going to be lost, too. The room was dead quiet, there wasn't one, I mean I didn't have the volume up that loud, I'm not that eager to totally punish myself, it's enough to watch this thing, to have to listen to it is another, you know, bit of punitive behavior, but nevertheless here you've got Kerry's voting record and there are some of these candidates that could have cited some of this stuff from the standpoint he's not fit to be commander-in-chief. The problem is that Dean couldn't do it, and Edwards, I don't know, these guys, if they're afraid to tackle Kerry on this voting record, then none of them are going to get this nomination other than Kerry because he's a sitting duck. He's a sitting duck, and I guess it just boils down to the fact something we've always said here, the Democrats just don't consider this terrorism that big a deal.
And, in fact, John Kerry himself said during last night's presidential debate the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated. "I think there's been an exaggeration," Kerry said, when asked whether President Bush had overstated the threat of terrorism. "They're misleading all Americans in a profound way." Edwards said, "It's just hard for me to see how you can say there's an exaggeration when thousands of people lost their lives on September 11th."
Kerry said one of the things that you need to know as president is how things work in Congress if you want to get things done. One of the things that happens in Congress is you can in fact write a bill. But you haven't done that. Your name is not on any major pieces of legislation. Threat of terrorism exaggerated, eh? Edwards, as I say, was born in South Carolina, said that he has to win there, took the first opportunity to disagree with Kerry, as you heard. But if you go to John Kerry's website, you find the exact opposite statement. On JohnKerry.com, you will find this statement. "The most basic responsibility of government is to provide for the common defense. The Bush administration has provided too little support, too little leadership, and too little vision for the common defense of our homeland. John Kerry has the courage to roll back George W. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can invest in our homeland security. America needs a new homeland security that asks Americans to do more and take steps as big as the threats we face." This guy is off his rocker.
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RUSH: I just have to go through this one more time. I feel like I hurried it because of the time constraints in the prior segment. Oh, by the way, we looked up tobacco, South Carolina, 12% of all farm commodities. So I mean 12% is 12%. You wipe out the tobacco business or put a big ding in it, North Carolina, South Carolina, you're going to have some job losses there and of course you'll never hear the Democrats talking about those job losses that they have led the responsibility for primarily in the tobacco business.
All right, John Kerry last night said the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated. "I think there's been an exaggeration. The Bush administration is misleading all Americans in a profound way." I just want to read to you what's on his website. The John Kerry for president website, by the way. "The most basic responsibility of government is to provide for the common defense. The Bush administration has provided too little support, too little leadership, and too little vision for the common defense of our homeland. John Kerry has the courage to roll back George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can invest in our homeland security. America needs a new tax increase for homeland security that asks Americans to do more and take steps as big as the threats we face."
That's your candidate, Democrats, I mean you do with it what you will. First he never said what I said, claimed he never said what he said about nobody in the Democratic Party needing the south. He did say it. Now he's out there saying Bush is over...you know, this is almost Deanesque, to run around out there and start talking about how, "I don't believe all this terrorism talk of the president, he's over-blowing it, I don't believe all this," and then you go to his website, "we need to get rid of the Bush tax cut so we can pay for all this defense for terrorism that we have to face."
I don't care what's happening in the White House, folks, this stuff is just sheer panic city if these people get anywhere near the White House. I'll tell you, it is going to be genuine panic time. And I want to remind you again why the liberals are the way they are: they're just afraid, folks. These poor people are just afraid. They believe that they can make friends with people like Osama bin Laden, they think if they just show people like that that our military is not going to harm them, that we have no intention of going beyond our borders and we're not going to launch missiles at them, that they'll leave us alone. They're just afraid. They're just afraid all this is going to lead to them getting hurt or something. They're just scared. And they actually do believe that this is the way to deal with people who intend us harm.
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