On 'Morning Joe,' Kerry joked about his role filling in for Romney for Obama debate prep. Kerry: I need 'exorcism' after debates

Sen. John Kerry joked Wednesday that he’ll need an “exorcism” after the final debate next week to purge Mitt Romney after playing the GOP presidential nominee for weeks in debate prep with President Barack Obama.

“It’s been an interesting exercise,” Kerry said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’ve decided next Tuesday I’ve got to have an exorcism of Romney out of my being.”


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Meanwhile, Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defended the administration’s handling of the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, and called Romney’s reaction “not presidential.”

“You don’t play games with national security,” Kerry said. “Before anybody knew the facts, Mitt Romney was politicizing this issue, and that is not presidential — you don’t do that if you’re running for president. You get the facts. He criticized this administration, accused them of creating this event, before he even knew what this event was. That’s not presidential. That’s not the leadership we need.”

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The Massachusetts Democrat also called his fellow Bay Stater’s tax plan a “fraud on the American people.”