Only in Boston/MA -- Beatty says being called a Yankees fan is a "campaign smear"!!!

[Luftmensch067]

In response to Beatty's call for an examination of Kerry's ties to bailout insurance company AIG, Brigid O'Rourke, a spokeswoman for the Boston Democrat, told the Boston Globe: "In case Jeff Beatty hasn't noticed, that AIG stock he's talking about isn't looking so hot these days - sort of like his favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees."

The Beatty camp said the Harwich Republican is not a Yankees fan and said that O'Rourke made the remark because a Yankees hat was put on Beatty to keep bandages on his head when he was injured rescuing U.S. hostages in Grenada (photo above).

Instead of engaging on the issue, Beatty spokeswoman Christine Hunsinger said, the Kerry camp chose political smears.

"When asked serious questions, John Kerry sidesteps, smears, and then goes on the attack," Hunsinger said. "Add to the long list of people Kerry has insulted those military doctors and medical students, some Yankees fans or Red Sox fans like Jeff, who risked their lives to tend to soldiers while under fire in Grenada. If these weren't such serious times, we would ask for an apology. Instead we say it's time to fire John Kerry."

The Kerry camp responded by pointing the finger back at Beatty for his personal attacks.

"It's ironic that Jeff Beatty, whose entire campaign has been a litany of personal attacks on John Kerry, now cries foul when jibed about his baseball allegiances," O'Rourke said Friday.

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[Mass]

1. May be it is all Republicans that are erratic?

and not only McCain?

I could not start to make sense of the statement linking being a Yankee fan AND Grenada until I saw the photo.

[karynnj]

2. Same here

His leaps of "logic" are mind boggling. Does he seriously think that Bridget O'Rourke carefully examined the photo to find out which team's cap he was wearing? Not to mention, he looks like kind of a thin skinned baby that he thinks being called a "Yankee fan" is a smear, when he has been calling Kerry corrupt and unprincipled for months.

I wonder how people will react to him flip flopping on his favorite team. I seriously doubt there are all that many NJ Red Soxs fans.

[Luftmensch067]

3. Their only m.o. seems to be projection

Step 1. Launch vile attacks on your opponent because you have no strategy for winning on your own merits.
Step 2. Refuse to feel any human compunction about it and keep lying until someone calls you on it.
Step 3. If your opponent calls you on your low smear tactics, whine that her/his only strategy for winning is to attack you because s/he can't win on her/his own merits.

Reminds me of nothing so much as a bratty kid saying: "I know you are, but what am I?!?"

[beachmom]

4. What is Jeff Beatty for? What is he going to do?

This guy is Ed O'Reilly Part 2. I think there will be tough questions for Sen. Kerry, but Beatty is not a credible candidate.

[Luftmensch067]

5. Welcome to the Massachusetts Republican Party

:-)