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Grover Norquist: Obama is "Kerry With a Tan"
June 27, 2008 1:29 PM
Conservative activist Grover Norquist dropped by The Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau and decided a classy and appropriate way to convey his opposition to the liberal positions of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was to call the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee "John Kerry with a tan."
Presumably Norquist is trying to conjure forth something other than Kerry's curiously orange tan some were obsessed with for a spell in 2004.
- jpt
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Maybe McCain is Goldwater with less hair?
Posted by: markymark | Jun 30, 2008 1:48:16 PM
Grover made a good point, except that he forgot to add "Kerry with a tan, while eating peanuts".....
Posted by: Foodforthought | Jun 29, 2008 4:52:36 PM
love mccain!
Posted by: w | Jun 29, 2008 1:34:36 PM
IF YOU LIKE THIS ECONOMY;
IF YOU LIKE THIS NEVER-ENDING WAR;
IF YOU LIKED HIS VOTE AGAINST A GI BILL FOR IRAQ VETS;
IF LIKE PAYING HIGH GAS PRICES;
IF LIKE THE TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH;
IF YOU CAN'T WAIT TO INVADE IRAN;
IF YOU LIKE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT;
IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN;
IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST MATERNITY LEAVE FOR WOMEN;
IF YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE END OF ROE V. WADE;
IF YOU LIKE THE UNFAIR TRADE POLICIES THAT SEND JOBS AND TECHNOLOGY OVERSEAS;
IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT PRACTICES TORTURE;
IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT SPIES ON ITS OWN CITIZEN;
IF YOU LIKE THE FACT THAT THE US IS ONE OF THE MOST REVILED NATIONS ON THE PLANET, THEN YOU'LL JUST LOVE McCAIN.
Posted by: rhbate | Jun 28, 2008 11:37:26 PM
Many Americans have come to respect Barack Obama as a man of change. However, an agenda has been discovered on his Senate website that uncovers a plan that violates the Constitutional Rights of non-custodial parents in the name of helping fathers. Could this be true? It is and more. Barack Obama along with Democrat sponsors in the House and Senate are working on getting this bill passed into law right now!
Posted by: tntalk | Jun 28, 2008 1:14:04 AM
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Tell us how you feel about Bush and the republicans subverting our constitution?
Posted by: Mess Host Messenger | Jun 28, 2008 7:09:13 PM
Come on Hillary supporters!! Voting for McCain won't salvage the beating Hillary's received. SHE knows it's just politics. Don't threaten to vote for McCain--that's a joke!! ANY DEMOCRAT must now be your mantra!! We can and will win this year IF we unite. Think long term--not short timing!!
Linda
Posted by: Linda | Jun 28, 2008 5:04:47 PM
I loved this comment even if I don't completely agree with them. I have said all along that it was a farce for Obama to claim Hillary was politics as usual and he was this rare herring who was not politics as usual. Did you Obama zombies know that he got the contributor's list from gasbags like Kerry and Kennedy when they endorsed him? And, he claims he is not politics as usual? What kind of induced haze does he have you in? Unbelievable! There is at least 3 million of us who will NOT be voting for Obama but will vote for John McCain in November. We would have gladly voted for Obama until he kept slamming hillary with the gender comments. He caused this problem so I don't feel sorry for him at all now! And, why is it, every time anyone states the littlest thing like Obama is Kerry with a tan, IT'S RACIAL, OH, MY , IT'S RACIAL. Well, you have civil rights legilation protecting your and the women HAVE NOTHING! OUR EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT FAILED TO PASS SO IT IS ALWAYS OPEN SEASON ON WOMEN AND WE ARE SICK OF IT! So, until you run for office and have to constantly humiliated for your race the way Hillary was simply because she is a woman, than talk to me and I'll listen.
Posted by: Mary Anne | Jun 28, 2008 3:01:17 PM
Picture THIS!! OBAMA IN CHARGE OF THE "FOOTBALL"..... Now that IS scary!!
Posted by: Jimbo | Jun 28, 2008 6:42:23 AM
so Grover who didn't serve in the armed services and has no problem dissing the guys who did is back to his fat kid in high school who wishes he were more popular, handsome and intelligent mode.
Posted by: kravitz | Jun 28, 2008 1:31:08 AM
Many Americans have come to respect Barack Obama as a man of change. However, an agenda has been discovered on his Senate website that uncovers a plan that violates the Constitutional Rights of non-custodial parents in the name of helping fathers. Could this be true? It is and more. Barack Obama along with Democrat sponsors in the House and Senate are working on getting this bill passed into law right now!
Posted by: tntalk | Jun 28, 2008 1:14:04 AM
spock said>
Jeffrey Capshew I think you are mistaken Clinton for President Bush - President Bush served completely in the Air National Guard in Texas, Clinton dodged the draft. Kerry insulted our troops, and Obama is insulting our country!!
spock, when did bush serve completely in the air national guard? check ur facts! when he was enlisted he was dodging alright and it wasnt bullets either! lol learn how to dig ul find treasure.
Posted by: oasis | Jun 28, 2008 1:04:41 AM
He took a lot of beating as a
POW. Now he's dishing it out to
his wife.
Posted by: anon | Jun 27, 2008 11:26:02 PM
BHO is more like Jimmy Carter than like Kerry in his politics. He'll be visiting with those who don't like the USA, like Hamas, Chavez, Iran, Bin Laden, etc. Although BHO's more like Kerry when it comes to who will vote for him.
Posted by: Dollie | Jun 27, 2008 10:31:27 PM
Kerry with a tan.........
BWAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: wales | Jun 27, 2008 10:18:23 PM
This is a good one. Both are flip-floppers on important issues.
Posted by: george | Jun 27, 2008 9:59:25 PM
I think the comment was meant to point out that he is an elitist, liberal and that his color and rhetoric should not fool people into thinking otherwise.
I like Obama and his wife much better than the Kerrys but for a snarky comment I would tell Grover "Hey! Kerry was a Vet!"
Posted by: jjv | Jun 27, 2008 6:42:48 PM
I guess he got the idea from Michelle, when she said the Obama's would be Camelot with a Tan.
Posted by: comet | Jun 27, 2008 6:35:55 PM
Eileen From Maine, you wrote: "...most of that income was from his two best selling books that he wrote himself."
Shortly after Sen. Obama took his senate seat in 2005, the Senate Ethics Committee gave him permission to receive a $1.9 million advance on his books. And his 2007 royalties totaled slighly over $4 million. I stand corrected!
Posted by: James Danley | Jun 27, 2008 6:26:56 PM
jointennessee
It will never happen. He'll take what support Hillary offers then, she'll find herself under the bus with the rest of the associates he no longer needs.
Posted by: A | Jun 27, 2008 5:44:32 PM
Throw all the different colored mud at Obama you want it will not stick. Not a bias just a fact that we know white America much better than you know us. See we have had to educate ourselves by serving you to talk like you, to know how you think, work, play and pray. We have honored this country by fighting and dying in all wars while simultaneously fighting for freedoms you take for granted, which make us skeptical patriots. But some of the best fighting patriots. Just look at the makeup of our military. So yes we know and love ourselves & others. Is there room for growth in our communities? HELL yes. We cal all step up!! So stop questioning Baracks or our Americanism or Black Americanism if we so choose before taking a long hard look in the mirror.
I'm outa this childish blog
Posted by: AmericanYes | Jun 27, 2008 5:25:37 PM
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