Posted on 09/02/2004 3:07:45 PM PDT by RWR8189
< "I think the voters have decided they do not want to reelect the president," Devine said. "And I think that's manifest today." >
Ummm...now drink your Kool-Aide like a good boy.
For example, I think the "John Kerry says/John Kerry does" ads probably inflicted far more damage than the Swifties, because it directly attacks his talking points (with his own words). For a lot of people, those ads probably crystallized a nagging but previously undefined dislike for John Kerry.
Funny how Hitlery and Blisters bolted NYC despite their promise to Kerry to be "truth detectors" during the RNC.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--clintons0902sep02,0,4596954.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
"...probably crystallized a nagging but previously undefined dislike for John Kerry."
Fortunately for me, my dislike has never been undefined nor has it needed crystallization.
Kerry's convention was a month earlier than Bush's, thus giving the president a whole extra month to spend money from his campaign stash, and leaving Kerry defenseless when the Swift boat veterans began their ad campaign.
Yeah, that $500,000 SBVT ad buy just rolled over the Dems.
Releasing his records wouldn't have cost Kerry a cent.
"Whenever you make a decision to engage an issue like this on the candidate level, that's a very difficult process."
Being caught in a lie with your pants down requires some very skillful lying, on the level of Clinton.
"We've got 'em right where they want us"
> ... the bottom line is that the Kerry campaign still
> doesn't understand that their real problem is their
> candidate and his baggage.
To be more precise, the long-time Kerry loyalists don't
understand that they have two problems:
1. their candidate, whose past is a failing fiction, and
2. the Clinton people, who orchestrated the emergence of
Kerry as the Designated Loser, and who are on hand to
ensure that he loses (by just a little, but loses).
I call this the betrayal within the betrayal, and the
Kerry loyalists are likely still in denial on both scores.
The Clinton members of the campaign know exactly what's
up, and are now working to narrow the loss, so that there
will be a messy aftermath (recounts, suits, etc).
"Releasing his records wouldn't have cost Kerry a cent."
Rumor has it that releasing his records may cost him the election.
We haven't yet really made it into a dissection of Kerry's record. Wasn't he elected senator sometime since the Vietnam War?
LOL! Very true!
Cheers!
Kerry's political campaign is history and those close to him know it.
Oh, please. they know 95% of what the Swifties say is true, so they lashed out the only way they could - call them liars and not let any reporter ask Kerry a question.
Exactly. The ONLY response that would have Kerry ahead right now would be coming out with the truth, and that truth being that Kerry really is the War Hero he claims to be.
Since they did not go this route, I guess it just wasn't available to them.
Love the metaphor.
You got it.
Is anyone else as astounded as I am that the Rats nominated this guy? Maybe it speaks to their dearth of leadership, but you could send a dog with a note to deliver the message that Hanoi John was a traitor and conspirator with our nation's enemies.
Not a good message during wartime.
You must realize that whenever a hard-Left person says "America", "the American people", or "voters", they inevitably mean themselves.
Well, that's because you thought that having the MSM in your pocket was all the ammo you'd ever need. Arrogance always turns on its master; just ask the good and dead, child of second cousins, Schicklegruber: he wanted nothing to do with 'Jewish physics.'
And Devine said the campaign had trouble coming up with a response: "Whenever you make a decision to engage an issue like this on the candidate level, that's a very difficult process."
That's only true when you don't have the truth on your side, or your opponent has you so boxed in that no matter what direction you choose to move in, a bludgeoning awaits. They've flanked you on your right, they've flanked you on your left. There's tons of old voice that can be re-played, there's tons of voting records that can be made known, and only you know what else might comprise a set of crosshairs.
Who hates you, baby?
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