Democratic Sen. John Kerry launched a broadside against fellow Massachusetts politician Mitt Romney on Sunday, calling him a flip-flopper.
"There are few people I've met in public life who have changed on as many issues as he has," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Every major touchstone of American politics — from abortion to guns to war to God to gays, you name it," Kerry told host David Gregory. "People will make their own judgments about that."There is no doubt that if Rommey is the nominee--and that is far from settled--the Right will have to figure out how to deal with these claims. The Democrats obviously are trying to mirror the conservative arguments against Romney and use that as a wedge to divide certain coalitions within the Republican party.
But what I want to know is this: how has Romney changed his position on God and war (thanks to Ramesh Ponnuru)? Is Romney now a theist when before he was an atheist? Was Romney strictly a believer in peace and love and getting rid of the Department of Defense (e.i., or what Barack Obama says are the true teachings of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount)?
And today on MSNBC, Kerry, who was trying to save the so-called supercommittee, unwittingly agreed with Republicans that letting the Bush tax cuts expire will result in "a major tax increase." Democrats of course argued against the Bush tax cuts--that is until President Obama begrudgingly acknowledged that raising taxes in the middle of a recession was not a good idea. Kerry parroted these arguments just a little over a year ago on Meet the Depressed and claimed that extending these tax cuts would be giving those in the highest tax bracket "huge extra tax cuts" and a "special bonus."
It's truly amazing that this man was once the Democrat nominee for President.
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