[GOP_Proud]

< "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.

[r9etb]

I think the bottom line is that the Kerry campaign still doesn't understand that their real problem is their candidate and his baggage.

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.

[Mike Fieschko]

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.

[jimbo123]

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

[Max Combined]

"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.

[stevem]

The Swift Boat Vets and their shoe string budget having had the impact they have points to how vulnerable Kerry really is. This isn't David vs. Goliath (in terms of resources available for the struggle). This is a gnat in a hurricane, and the hurricane is losing!

We haven't yet really made it into a dissection of Kerry's record. Wasn't he elected senator sometime since the Vietnam War?

[Amish with an attitude]

Kerry's political campaign is history and those close to him know it.

[Shermy]

Maybe that's because she, along with senior strategist Bob Shrum, has taken most of the blame for the Kerry campaign's ham-fisted response to the anti-Kerry veterans.

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.

[jwpjr]

re: "Sen. Kerry privately is said to be "bouncing off the walls" in frustration"

Ask yourself what would President Bush do it his staff were messing things up so badly. I expect he would step and take over the running of the campaign personally! If Kerry can't even handle the running of his campaign, how the heck is he going to manage an entire nation. His record during this campaign is more than sufficient to show that he simple doesn't have what it takes to be president.

[AlbionGirl]

The Kerry camp said they've miscalculated, however, specifically in the campaign's response to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "We didn't understand the degree to which [the Swifties] would become the focal point for August," Cahill said.

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?

[LS]

"But things can turn around. On Friday, Kerry unleashes a $45 million barrage of television advertising in key battleground states."

I'm quaking in my boots. Look at how well the first $60 million worked!

BTW, didn't Custer say something like, "things can turn around" right before the last wave of Indians came over the ridge?

[Maria S]

"...Sen. Kerry privately is said to be "bouncing off the walls" in frustration..."


Now that has to be a sight!

[hobson]

$45 million dollars? Covering what time period? They only have 75 million to spend for the next 2 months, don't they?

[Robert A Cook PE]

"The Kerry campaign wanted to talk to journalists, and quickly, so a last minute breakfast was held Thursday morning in the Times Square Hilton. Usually these breakfasts involve about 30 reporters posing questions to 1 or 2 campaign types. Not this morning. Instead there were six Kerry campaign officials at Thursday's breakfast, all high-level personnel: Mary Beth Cahill, the campaign manager, Tad Devine, senior strategist, new hire Joe Lockhart, pollster Mark Mellman, Doug Sosnick, and Stephanie Cutter, Kerry's communications director.

Nope.

Nothing to see here. folks.

No cooperation from a willing national press corpse at all in propping up Kerry's campaign, nor in getting out his message directly from the dnc.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just moveon.org .

[Billthedrill]

On Tuesday, for example, the campaign announced several new hires, including former Clinton flack Joe Lockhart, who is now a senior adviser to Kerry, and Joel Johnson, another former Clinton hand, who will now handle the campaign's rapid response.

Kerry's in the water floundering, calling for the Clintons to throw him a life preserver. I'm thinking what they just threw him is an anchor.

[jammer]

Yeah, yeah. It's all Shrum's fault, who, BTW, has advanced Dim causes far, far beyond their appeal to a semi-sane world. No word that the problems are caused by...Mr. Kerry's lies and liberal record.

[sonofatpatcher2]

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