Senator Kerry Cancels Campaign Appearances
by Aaron Margolis, November 1st, 2006 at 01:35pm
If it’s all just a “misunderstanding” and a “botched joke,” why is Senator John Kerry canceling campaign appearances?
Senator John Kerry, reeling from the fall out over a remark that he calls a “botched joke,” has canceled campaign appearances with Democratic congressional candidates, Bloomberg news reports.
Democrats are distancing themselves from the 2004 presidential nominee.
According to Bloomberg:
Kerry won’t appear today in Mankato, Minnesota on behalf of Tim Walz, a Democrat challenging Republican Representative Gil Gutknecht. The decision to cancel “ultimately” was Kerry’s, said Walz spokeswoman Meredith Salsbery.
Bruce Braley, a Democrat running for Iowa’s 1st congressional seat, asked Kerry not to campaign with him tomorrow, the Quad-Cities Times reported. Braley thought Kerry’s remarks were inappropriate, the paper said, citing Braley spokesman Jeff Giertz.
Kerry also won’t appear today in Philadelphia with U.S. Senate candidate Bob Casey, ABC News reported. Casey’s race to unseat Republican Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania could be pivotal to Democrats’ hopes to gain control of the Senate.
Tennessee Representative Harold Ford Jr., who is locked in a close race for retiring Majority Leader Bill Frist’s Senate seat, called on Kerry to apologize.
“Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said,” Ford said in a statement.
More Democrats are distancing themselves from the man who failed to unseat President Bush in 2004.
“Sen. Kerry’s remarks were poorly worded and just plain stupid,” said Montana Senate President Jon Tester, a Democrat trying to unseat GOP Sen. Conrad Burns. “He owes our troops and their families an apology.”
“I’m sorry he did what he did. But I think the issue … we want to make sure it doesn’t confuse the subject of the war in Iraq,” Democratic Rep. Ben Cardin, running for Senate in Maryland, said on CNN.
Senator Kerry has become quite the tar baby. Of course, once again, Kerry and his people are blaming everyone else but themselves for the canceled campaign appearances.
“We made a decision not to allow the Republican hate machine to use Democratic candidates as proxies in their distorted spin war,” Wade said.
Keep at it… just keep at it.
UPDATE: Dick Cheney: Kerry was for the joke before he was against it.
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