Posted on 09/18/2004 9:37:58 AM PDT by Repub4bush
Kerry knew in 2002 when he was preparing his "search committee" that, if his Senate record became an issue or was even talked about on talk radio, they would start at the beginning: 1985. If they did, he knew he was done-for. So he had to come up with some way of distracting conservative talk radio. I guess he rolled the dice and figured he would rather weather the storm over his post-Vietnam activites than have anyone talk about his first four years as a Senator. He probably figured his military record was enough to pull a few pro-military/anti-Bush conservatives while his "activist" record would win-over all of the liberal yahoos. 51% is a win in a two-way Presidential race.
I think Kerry would put up with nearly anything to keep Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Mike Reagan (especially Reagan!), Laura Ingram, et. al. from talking about his "negotiations" with Daniel Ortega. Notice his cohort, Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has been one of the most vocal figures keeping the whole VN thing in the press.
Oddly enough, its worked. Just mention Nicaragua or Daniel Ortega and people's eyes glaze over. He was a worse butcher than Saddam -- and twice as dangerous, potentially -- and Ronald Reagan knew it. Kerry accused Reagan of getting us into another Vietnam (he trotsky's that line out every time the Boy Scouts hold a jamboree) but he was wrong. No one wants to talk about it but Kerry and Harkin violated the Constitutional seperation of powers (an impeachable offence), broke several international laws, gave a Marxist dictator the locations of US advisory teams (those teams soon disappeared) and returned from Managua with a "gentleman's agreement" with Ortega saying the US would get out of Central America, keep hand's-off the Sandanistas, let Ortega have the Atlantic Coast tribals and the Contradora if only he would stop taking Soviet military aide ("humanitarian aide" was fine) -- the same night they left he flew to Moscow to pick up an "aide" cheque for $200million from the Kremlin and a promise for more small arms, Hind helicopters and MiG fighters.
Harkin and Kerry were censured by the Senate but State and the White House were hamstrung by the press -- which called the two bozos "heroes" for giving peace a chance -- so Kerry tried to bring the Reagan administration down over Iran-Contra (a non-story ala the Rathergate memos, going on right now, and the Winter Soldier "testimony" of 1971 -- Kerry is real big on prosecuting people using made-up evidence). That didn't work so he made up the thing about the CIA starting the drug trade -- again, totally made-up BS.
Have you heard Rush and Company talking about ANY of this? Nope. Why? Because they've been distracted by all of the juicy gossip over Kerry's Hero-turned-Protester-turned-Hero (again) past and the attacks the DNC/MoveOn have launched against Bush. Conservative Talk Radio has let the liberals own the agenda.
The liberals know "we" have no voice other than talk radio and the internet -- forums like this one, blogs, and the odd, stray "conservative" news sites like Drudge and NewsMax. They know they own the newspapers, TV and pollsters. The only way to shut us up and keep Kerry's treasonous behaviour of 1985 (as opposed to his treasonous behaviour of 1971) under wraps was to divert those outlets. Shame to say it but, they were right. I tried calling Savage about this and his call screener hung up on me, "That's not even a topic..." Don't even bother trying to get through to Limbaugh.
Well, for what its worth, I've tried mentioning it on other forae before, as well, and have e-mailed all of the above talk shows and the silence from all quarters has been deafening. Nobody remembers, nobody cares, nobody wants to think about it. We did our best back in 1982-83 to stay off the front pages so we could help the Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, et.al. take their countries back from the brink of Soviet-style Communism without having to worry about the press scrutinizing our every move. We did both sucessfully. Maybe a little too successfully...
Gunzup! Geoffrey
The time has come: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219829/posts
BTTT
Here is another link to more of this story:
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/05/16/Politics/Kerrys.Disloyal.Nicaraguan.Journey-681125.shtml
Swifty Bump!
Good Post. This and the Paris meetings are the central issues that the public needs to be informed about. I think that people are becoming too focused on rathergate, the medals etc. which distract from more important things.
It is getting time to get the word out!
BTTT
Well, well. It seems that J.eF'n Kerry is more UNFIT FOR COMMAND than ever. Nice post. Good writing, good information.
1) Americans don't KNOW who Daniel Ortega was, nor do they understand the complexities about Central American policy. We didn't fight a war there, and it DOES NOT RESONATE.
2) Rush, however, well understood that despite the fact that it was 30 years ago, Vietnam---as he points out repeatedly---still is an utter obsession of the Left. They finally got us to lose a war, and they hate the military. (Don't forget that with Ortega, we lost the "battle" but won the war, and people forget minor skirmishes).
No, keeping the focus on Vietnam was BRILLIANT, especially since Kerry made that the proxy for how he would fight the "War on Terror." That's all people needed to know. Many people today simply don't even remember the deadly struggle with communism itself, but almost everyone knows someone who fought in Vietnam. The Swifties put the focus on Kerry in Vietnam, and Rush kept it there.
Rush has research staffers who'll see this and make sure it hits his desk. You'll hear reference to this soon. Any signs of life in Kerry, and Rush will drive this stake through his heart. Thanks for reminding us all about Harkin and Kerry's little jaunt to Nicaragua.
Ping
Traitor bump!
I agree. It would be like Hillary swinging deals with Bin Ladin to defeat the U.S.
Voters wouldn't approve of Kerry's aiding the enemy at all!
You can now see where Ollie North's anger is from. Not only the Treasonous Vietnam activities, but Fraud Kerry directly effected Ollie's life forever.
btttb (Bump to the top, baby!)
Back in the day, the press had people believing the Contras were the bad guys. That Ortega bastard got more face time on the networks than Reagan himself for a period of time.
Only those willing to do a little study into the subject (and I do mean a LITTLE, I was barely an adult) knew the truth about what was happening.
Your suggestion is a good one, but the way this campaign is shaping up, it may not be necessary to even trot this out.
Campaign, is someone running a campaign?
Heard in on the grapevine.
Rush is talking to the choir. I suspect his research team gets most of their information here. One stop shopping. We cover every major issue, with humor I may add. I hate to admit this, but I rather doubt he is converting many undecides or democrats.
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