DrMaddVibe
04-25-2005, 06:55 AM
Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:26 a.m. EDT
Kerry Blasts Hillary Backer
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry was boiling mad at Sen. Mark Dayton after the Minnesota Democrat publicly touted Sen. Hillary Clinton at a Democratic Party fund-raiser two weeks ago as "the next great president of the United States."
"What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?" Kerry fumed in a confrontation with Dayton on the Senate floor two days later.
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"He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, saying that the 2008 presidential hopeful had "daggers in his eyes."
The former Kerry backer reportedly responded, "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."
Contacted by the New York Post, Sen. Clinton's office had no comment on the episode. "Boys will be boys, even when they're senators," a Clinton friend told the paper.
Dayton is hardly the only former Kerry fan who's deserted the fold.
A survey last month of Massachusetts residents conducted by KRC Communications Research showed that 51 percent of Bay Staters now back Mrs. Clinton, with just 33 percent in Kerry's corner.
Kerry Blasts Hillary Backer
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry was boiling mad at Sen. Mark Dayton after the Minnesota Democrat publicly touted Sen. Hillary Clinton at a Democratic Party fund-raiser two weeks ago as "the next great president of the United States."
"What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?" Kerry fumed in a confrontation with Dayton on the Senate floor two days later.
Story Continues Below
"He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, saying that the 2008 presidential hopeful had "daggers in his eyes."
The former Kerry backer reportedly responded, "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."
Contacted by the New York Post, Sen. Clinton's office had no comment on the episode. "Boys will be boys, even when they're senators," a Clinton friend told the paper.
Dayton is hardly the only former Kerry fan who's deserted the fold.
A survey last month of Massachusetts residents conducted by KRC Communications Research showed that 51 percent of Bay Staters now back Mrs. Clinton, with just 33 percent in Kerry's corner.