John Kerry is courting the angry left blogosphere, whispering sweet words of Bush-hatred to them off the record that he would never repeat in public (not yet, anyway): John Kerry: Bush A Criminal, Looting Country. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Luckily for us the moonbats on the loony left have no sense of integrity, and off the record comments simply don’t exist for them.

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry blasted President Bush on Thursday as a “criminal” who has been “looting the country.”

The Massachusetts Democrat offered the incendiary comments during an off the record meeting with liberal bloggers after a speech in Los Angeles to the Pacific Council on International Policy. According to the Web site L.A. Observed, Kerry asked the bloggers to keep his comments confidential; a request they apparently dismissed out of hand without telling him.

Blogger “Hollywood Liberal” reports that Kerry “agreed completely with someone’s assessment that everything that Bush does is solely for the purpose of looting the country.”

“[Kerry] basically said that Bush and his cohorts are criminals” the blogger continued. “At some other point he referred to Supreme Court Justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts as ‘Idiots.’”

With an eye on 2008, Kerry has been courting the blog community, which helped make Howard Dean the early Democratic presidential frontrunner in 2004.