Reply #4: He actually already did

[karynnj]

He was on FTN a few weeks ago and Scheiffer asked whether McCain had changed or Kerry had just changed his opinion on McCain (lovely question). Kerry responded with a leas polished version of this. First saying that "president wannabe" McCain is very different than the Senator McCain he had known. He then gave some of the same huge 180 degree shifts he did here. It was a great off the cuff answer.

Here they were far more eloquently stated, but the essence was the same. Many other parts were also things he said before - including in his endorsement speech. The difference is that he was able to put them very coherently together into this speech which hits back at so many Republican attacks in addition to attacking McCain.