Kerry Turns on McCain

Sunday morning, John Kerry was on Face the Nation.

I didn't watch much of the program. I saw enough to note that Obama supporter Kerry was on with Lindsey Graham, a co-chairman of the McCain campaign.

They weren't in the studio with host Bob Schieffer. They participated remotely from their home states and often appeared on a split screen.

One thing is clear: Kerry has turned on McCain, the man he once considered to be his running mate in 2004. There are no embers left to stir, only cold ashes. The McCain-Kerry affair is over.

WASHINGTON -- John Kerry said Sunday Republican John McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president.

...Kerry had no kind words for his Senate colleague, accusing McCain of poor decision-making on everything from backing tax cuts for the wealthy to making support for continuing the U.S. military presence in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

“John McCain … has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he’s made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shia violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves,” Kerry, who supports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“If you like the Bush tax cut and what it’s done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove,” the Massachusetts senator added, echoing an Obama campaign talking point.

Kerry later said the McCain of 2008 isn’t the McCain he courted in 2004.

Kerry acted like a scorned lover.

Sen. KERRY: John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find, personally, really surprising and, frankly, upsetting. He is not the John McCain as the senator who defined himself, quote, "as a maverick," though questionable. This is a different John McCain. This is, you know, not the Senator John McCain, this is "nomination John McCain." This is "wannabe president" John McCain. And the result is that John McCain has flip-flopped on more issues than, you know, I was even ever accused possibly of thinking about. I mean, this is extraordinary, what he's done. He's changed on taxes. He's now in favor of the Bush tax cut. If you like the Bush economy, if you like the Bush tax cut and what it's done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain's going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove. If you like what has happened to oil prices, John McCain is going to continue that policy. If you like what you've seen about health care, John McCain has no health care plan. I would've at least expected the John McCain that I knew back then to realize...

SCHIEFFER: Well...

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Kerry keeps yapping and Schieffer can't stop him. It's pretty funny. The only way out is for Schieffer to announce that it's time to take a break.

How Kerry talks is amusing, the same old droning on and on, but what he has to say is not the least bit amusing.

Kerry will say anything. He acts like McCain has had a personality transplant since 2004. According to Kerry, McCain is a completely different person. He doesn't know him anymore.

I thought breaking up was hard to do. Kerry makes it look easy. It seems to come so naturally to him.