To: Alan Smithee who wrote (18390 ) 10/4/2004 1:25:36 AM From: Sully- Read Replies (1) | Respond to "The only rules the dems recognize are those applied to the republicans." Did Kerry Cheat? The whole thing seems odd to me. These guys do nothing all day long but appear in front of groups, giving speeches about Iraq and related topics. By now, they can probably give them in their sleep. (Speaking for myself, I have an "on" button that I hit whenever I do an interview on our role in Rathergate.) I frankly can't imagine that anything Kerry could have written on a small sheet of paper, as it appears from the video linked on Drudge, could have been of particular benefit. I don't think this is an issue that merits a lot of attention. Compared, say, to reminding people about Kerry's feckless twenty-year-long career in the Senate. It reminds me of an ancient joke about a sailor who rose through the ranks and became a ship's captain. He sailed the seven seas for many years and was respected by all who sailed with him. He had one odd habit, however, which mystified his fellow officers. Every evening before he retired, he would go to a safe that he kept in his cabin and pull out a small sheet of paper. He would study it for a few minutes, and then return it to the safe.Maybe Kerry's notes said something like: "Iran: mullahs; Iraq: Saddam Hussein." Despite my skepticism, this issue doesn't seem to be going away. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has a Quicktime video that not only shows Kerry pulling notes out of his pocket, but also seems to show that he had something in his right hand--odd, since he had just shaken hands with President Bush. Hugh Hewitt takes Jacketgate seriously. He says: "If Kerry did cheat --if he did in fact use notes when the rules prohibited notes-- he's toast in all of the red states and many of the blues."
