Kerry tags McSame

Pretty good material from formerly overstuffed-near-comatose-presidential-candidate John Kerry last night:

“To those who still believe in the myth of a maverick instead of the reality of a politician, I say, let’s compare Senator McCain to candidate McCain,” Kerry said.

“Candidate McCain now supports the wartime tax cuts that Senator McCain once denounced as immoral.

“Candidate McCain criticizes Senator McCain’s own climate change bill.

“Candidate McCain says he would now vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote.

“Are you kidding? Talk about being for it before you’re against it.”

That final jab was a reference to one of his most notorious comments, which did more than anything to damn his presidential campaign, when Kerry said he was for an Iraq funding bill, before he voted against it.

The Massachussetts senator, who took his bow at his own convention in 2004, with the words “I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty” also slammed McCain for perceived deficits in national security judgement.

“When John McCain stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier just three months after 9/11 and proclaimed, ‘Next up, Baghdad!’ Barack Obama saw, even then, an occupation of, undetermined length, undetermined cost, undetermined consequences, that would only fan the flames of the Middle East.

“Well, guess what? Mission accomplished,” he said, echoing the banner draped behind Bush in 2003 when he declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq from a US aircraft carrier.

Kerry, who has been mentioned by some observers as a possible secretary of state in any Obama administration, also vowed to combat efforts to assail McCain’s efforts to his question Obama’s patriotism.

“How insulting to suggest that those who question the mission, question the troops.

“How pathetic to suggest that those who question a failed policy doubt America itself.

“How desperate to tell the son of a single mother who chose community service over money and privilege that he doesn’t put America first.

Especially like how he called attention to the so-called Maverick Straighttalker kowtowing to the extreme wings of his party, by turning against his own legislative proposals.

Typical GOP response: teh Bitter card. All critics of Republican perfidy and mendacity are just bitter losers. Like Cindy Sheehan or Lila Lipscomb.