It would seem that the less than warm welcome John Kerry recently received from anti-war protestors at Harvard has pushed him over the edge, and he's now flip-flopped.... AGAIN... and is pushing for a cut and run strategy.

A sampling of comments Kerry was greeted with (Harvard Crimson):

“Bush Lied. Kerry Complied. Bring the troops home now,” they chanted outside the Kennedy School.

and

“Stop this war, John, grow some balls” the man said. “You can do something, John.”

So I don't if Kerry's recent anatomy change occured naturally or unnaturally, considering we know what a fan of botox and fake orange tans he is. But it does seem that he is basis his foreign policy "plans" on what these protestors told him just a few weeks ago.

Anyway, if you hadn't heard by now Frankenstein's plan is as follows (via Editor & Publisher):

He proposed two deadlines this year: May 15 (when Iraqi leaders must form a true unity government or we will immediately exit); and Dec. 31 (if the unity government does come to be, we pull out all combat troops by this date, leaving behind troops to train Iraqis).

Genius! I wonder if this was his secret plan that he would never reveal to us during the 2004 election, but was saving incase he won.... You know, instead of working with the rest of the government to do what is best for the country. Of course I don't believe he had a "plan" to begin with, but if he did have one (as he claimed) that was the perfect example of how he (like all Democrats) care more about winning, rather than doing what is best for the country.

Well Russert called Kerry out on this flip-flop by showing video of him from 2004 and 2005 where he said he was against timelines and against cutting and running. He doesn't admit a flip-flop, but basically says he's changed his mind. Expose the Left has the video, check it out now.

Ian at Expose the Left, provides a few quotes in noting a couple other interesting moments in the interview. Kerry at one point tries to repeat the media spin we've all heard this week, basically claiming that the President authorized Libby to reveal Plame's name. The reality, when you get past the headlines of these stories is that the President declassified intelligence information to support WMD claims, and it had nothing to do with Plame.

Earlier in the interview I found it interesting when Russert listed off all the chaos that would happen in Iraq if we were to pull out, and Kerry is shaking his head and saying "no, no, no". Thousands of Al Qaeda couldn't flood in John? Iranians couldn't? You wouldn't have militias? "No, no, no." Interesting how these are EXACTLY what you predicted in one of the videos Russert shows of your previous claims of opposing a "cut and run" strategy.

Later they get in to the question of whether or not Kerry will run in 2008. Of course he doesn't know yet (gotta wait and see what the polls say of course), but he lists what issues he was fighting for. Of course it's a cliche list of things that he never laid out a plan for, but it's just the usual "security", "health care", and "stronger America" stuff. And a few seconds later he mentions some of these again as things he still fights for and even calls his little list "simple", and I think in a way inadvertently admits that these are more wishes or goals, rather than plans or ways to reach those ends. This has pretty much been all the Dems have offered lately is just a wish list, but never having any idea how to achieve the goals.

So go check out the video for yourself, but have a pillow ready on your keyboard tray incase the Senator's voice causes you to dose off before Kerry is finished arguing with Russert about how much of the popular vote he got after his introduction.