John Kerry’s Republican Opponent: “You have Blood on Your Hands”

  John Kerry is facing a Republican challenger in the election this year. His name is Jeff Beatty and he probably doesn’t stand a chance to win. John Kerry tried to hide from this man, he refused to debate him, in order to avoid risking losing any ground to him in the election. John Kerry finally agreed to debate him, however he did manage to pull a fast one on Jeff Beatty. When he finally agreed to debate him it was last Monday night, and it coincidentally just happened to be on opposite of Monday Night Football and in an even bigger coincidence it just so happened that the New England Patriots were playing the Denver Broncos that night. Needless to say most Massachusetts residents were watching the Patriots.

 Perhaps this is why John Kerry was leery of debating Jeff Beatty and then finally agreeing to debate him when he knew that nobody would be watching. Jeff Beatty hit him hard on the Iraq war. As Beatty was claiming that John Kerry didn’t read the intelligence reports before voting to authorise the war John Kerry was heard snickering. This set Beatty off and this is what he had to say:

“Don’t laugh. It’s not a joke, you knew. You knew when you voted for that war that we didn’t have what we needed for the war . . . and you didn’t care because it was always about getting elected president. You have got blood on your hands.”

 That was a stinging indictment of Senator Kerry and he is right about Kerry’s agenda. John Kerry voted for the war when it was politically beneficial. He did not become anti-war until he saw Howard Dean gaining momentum in the polls. That is when he came out and denounced the war.

 John Kerry then said that he voted for the war based on intelligence reports that George Tenet and Colin Powell gave him. Wouldn’t these be the same reports that the president also saw? Yet somehow Bush lied and people died. If that is the case than John Kerry and everyone else who voted for the was lied also and people died. They all saw the same reports, you can’t have it both ways senator.

 Pardon me for going a little off topic here but has anyone else noticed how Colin Powell is now the darling of the left since he endorsed Obama? I have seen far left wing blogs that proclaim “the only man with any credibility from the Bush administration has endorsed Barack Obama.” Since when did this man gain credibility with the left? Wasn’t he the man who went before the American people and made the very convincing case for war? Wasn’t this the man that the left had previously called an “uncle Tom?” Oh, the beauty of a short memory.

 Back on topic now. Finally someone is calling out a person on the left who saw the same intelligence as the president and came to the same conclusion as the president. I don’t agree with Beatty on this issue but at least someone is trying to hold a Democrat to the same standards as a Republican.