Kerry Spot    [ jim geraghty reporting ]
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Kerry, on ABC News' This Week:

"I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush," he said. "I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."

Reminded that he sounded like Richard Nixon, who campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam, Kerry responded, "I don't care what it sounds like. The fact is that I'm not going to negotiate in public today without the presidency, without the power."

Kerry economic advisor Robert Rubin, in BusinessWeek:

"I don't think you can make proposals to try to dig out of this hole until you've gotten elected ... If you start to put out proposals now, they would be vigorously attacked and they would in effect become tainted so they couldn't be used."

No wonder Kerry talks so much about Vietnam. He can't talk about his foreign policy or economic proposals because they're secret. Well, this philosophy that some ideas are too good to share with the voters before the election just created another knock against Kerry. Look for these quotes coming soon to an attack ad near you!

[Posted 08/02 08:40 AM]