From GOP and the City
Posted on 10/27/2004 7:56:11 AM PDT by DIM1
I'm sure all these issues have been covered already - but I thought it might be helpful to compile some of the more current ones together in one place along with some sources.
All the best! DIM1
Reality Challenged?!
The Democratic Presidential Campaign at the Finish Line
Or: Through the Looking Glass with John and John
These last few days:
1. "It Wasn’t There Again Today, ”Missing”
Iraqi Munitions Were and (still are) Missing – Again
What They Said: CNN.com
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Posted: 1:45 AM EDT (0545 GMT)
Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry immediately seized on the information to accuse President Bush of incompetence in failing to secure the material, charging that "this is one of the great blunders of Iraq and one of the great blunders of this administration"
What there was good reason to think actually happened :( From Same Article)
Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived
NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time
2. Recollections of a Meeting Not held
Washington Times October 25, 2004
Security Council members deny meeting Kerry
By Joel Mowbray
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq
Recent Past:
3. Do you Feel a Draft?
They Speak: Kerry claims Bush might reinstate draft
By Charles Hurt THE WASHINGTON TIMES From the Nation/Politics section September 23rd 2004
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Sen. John Kerry yesterday warned parents and grandparents here that it's "possible" that President Bush will reinstate the draft to handle the war in Iraq if re-elected, while promising that he would not take that step.
"If George Bush were to be re-elected -- given the way that he has gone about this war, and given the avoidance of responsibility in North Korea, Iran and other places -- it is possible," he said. "I can't tell you.
They Write:
MTV:“Rock the Vote” http://www.rockthevote.com/draft/
Bottom of Fo Rock the Vote Mo
It's a real issue and it demands real answers.
And, oddly, they are believed:
DATE: October 8, 2004
National Annenberg Election Survey
Majority of 18 To 29 Year Olds Think Bush Favors Reinstating the Draft, Annenberg Data Show
But the ones pushing legislation for a renewed Military Draft are from their own party!
“The Virtue of an All-Volunteer Force”
Regulation magazine, a publication of the Cato Institute
by Walter Y. Oi
July 29, 2003
Last January, as Congress and the public grappled with the possibility of U.S. military action in Iraq, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) introduced the "The National Service Act of 2003" to reinstate compulsory national service. The congressman justified the bill by claiming the nation's defense should not be "the sole responsibility of paid volunteers."
And the President’s supporters dismissed Kerry’s accusations as baseless:
(From WT article quoted above)
"The one thing John Kerry has demonstrated this week is his willingness to say whatever he believes will benefit him politically, regardless of its effect on our troops, our allies and our mission,"—[campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt]…
“, Texas Republican and member of the Armed Services Committee, called the draft possibility an "urban legend" and called the statements "desperate and harmful to our troops."—[Sen. John Cornyn]
* It should be noted that the same WT article mentions another Kerry speech Mr. Schmidt referenced in the same comments which he quotes Kerry as expressing an unwillingness to rule out the possibility that the war in Iraq was an "illegal war."
4. Social Security: Mom and Dad out on the ice flow waiting for the hungry Bears
Summed up best:
FactCheck.org
09.17.2004
Kerry on Social Security
“No Democratic stump speech would be complete without accusing Republicans of wanting to cut Social Security benefits, and Kerry's does not disappoint. He said Sept. 7 that Bush is proposing "the bad old idea of privatizing Social Security and cutting your benefits." It's not Bush's plan, and it wouldn't cut benefits.
Summary
A Kerry ad claims "Bush has a plan to cut Social Security benefits by 30 to 45 percent." That's false.Bush has proposed no such plan, and the proposal Kerry refers to would only slow down the growth of benefits, and only for future retirees. It was one of three possible "reform models" detailed by a bipartisan commission in 2001.
The ad also says nothing about what Kerry would do to address the troubled state of Social Security finances.Unless taxes are increased, the system's trustees say currently scheduled benefits would have to be cut 32%
Click the link below for the full article:
http://www.factcheck.org/article283m.html
5. Bias?! Me?! Some of the “Unofficial” members of the Kerry Campaign have “issues” related to “self-recognition”: ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE'
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI OCT 08, 2004 18:42:03 ET XXXXX
**Exclusive**
An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable. But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to "win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions."
"The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done," Halperin writes.
Halperin's claim that ABCNEWS will not "reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable" set off sparks in St. Louis where media players gathered to cover the second presidential debate.
Halperin states the responsibilities of the ABCNEWS staff have "become quite grave."
In August, Halperin declared online: "This is now John Kerry's contest to lose."
Filed By Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2004
6. And Apparently Some Eager Kerry Election Operatives are Not Waiting for the news to Actually Happen:
CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 14, 2004 10:58:04 ET XXXXX
DNC ELECTION MANUAL: CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS
**World Exclusive**
The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation -- even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'"
What it Means:
OpinionEditorials.com
October 22, 2004
For What Shall It Profit A Democrat?
Joe Mariani
I began to write a satire in which John Kerry accused President Bush of wanting to draft senior citizens to work in Halliburton's clandestine oil rigs, but it didn't seem funny. I scrapped it and began again, writing a spoof news report in which Kerry blamed Bush for the Black Death. That didn't seem very funny, either... then I realised why. If he thought it would gain him a single vote, Kerry would actually make these denunciations and more.
If you listen to the wild accusations and unfounded charges Kerry and his mouthpieces are leveling at President Bush, it seems that the Democrats are growing increasingly desperate. Almost 18 solid months of nonstop Bush-bashing, and they still can't quite manage to push Kerry ahead of the President in the polls to any degree. As Kerry winds down towards the end of his unusually negative campaign, it's clear that the only thing that keeps him from going under is the rhetoric of hate and fear. Whenever the news of the day can be spun to make Bush look bad, Kerry gains a temporary point or two. As long as he and his surrogates keep churning out the muck, Kerry's campaign can tread water. According to the Democrats, President Bush will steal your Grandma's social security check, draft everyone between the ages of 18 and 35 to die in wars of conquest, turn anyone left alive in the country into a corporate slave, insist on a throne instead of a seat at the UN, destroy the environment (presumably just because he hates it so), and personally infect any surviving Americans with the flu out of sheer malice. That's not America they're having drug-induced nightmares about -- it's Mordor! It's almost incomprehensible how they manage to make these allegations with straight faces. No wonder they seem so chummy with most Hollywood actor types and vice-versa... there's a hint of professional respect there. When asked why there's not the slightest hint of evidence of any such evil and violent purposes, not to mention the fact that no President could act on those intentions without the backing of Congress, glib Democrats tell gullible potential voters that these are all Bush's Secret Evil Plans, for Doing Evil Things in Secret. Of course you can't prove their existence -- They hide the evidence too well! Democrats aren't merely out of touch with mainstream America, they're getting out of touch with reality altogether. Are you really dumb enough to swallow this kind of two-dimensional cartoonish fantasy hype? John Kerry is counting on it.
Kerry's campaign digs itself a deeper hole every day with this sort of baseless drivel. Not even the miracle cures promised by John Edwards (if he and Kerry are elected) can save the Democrats from the mud they've chosen to cover themselves with. Even if they somehow manage to convince enough people to vote for Kerry out of hate and fear, the low moral standards of Democrat campaigning has still doomed them. Not being a religious person, I'm not given to quoting the Bible. (In fact, I'll admit that I'm really quoting the Bruce Willis/Tom Hanks movie "Bonfire of the Vanities," based on the Tom Wolfe novel.) But one question from that book applies to the Left: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? *
John Edwards promised that "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." Hallelujah! John Kerry scares young people and parents with hints about "the great potential of a draft," though every responsible person in the chain of command, up to and including President Bush, has unequivocally stated that there will definitely not be a draft. (In reality, the only people who proposed a draft were Democrats, and that as a political tool. Therefore, it must be a Secret Evil Plan!) Both Kerry and Edwards feel it's "fair game" to drag Dick Cheney's daughter Mary into the conversation when the subject of gay marriage comes up. Don't they know any other gay people? Kerry even accuses the President of responsibility for the shortage of flu shots... despite the fact that the only reason flu vaccines are in short supply, and manufactured overseas, is that manufacturers are too liable to litigation. By definition, after all, vaccines make some people sick. According to Jim Copeland of the Manhattan Institute, "From the early to mid-1980s, as tort litigation exploded, the number of U.S. vaccine manufacturers fell from 15 to three... So Congress took vaccines out of the courts and instead created a 'no-fault' system, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program... In recent years, however, the congressional safeguards have been eroded as enterprising trial lawyers have circumvented the law." Logic and reason, however, will not stop Kerry and Edwards from fear- and hate-mongering in hopes of scraping up enough votes to win the White House. No lie too big, no issue too small, no slander too vile to be used by Democrats to attack Bush.
The Democrats have already lost their souls in this drive for power. Whether it shall profit them is up to you.
* Note to the overly sensitive rabidly anti-religious reader: substitute "that which is moral, noble and ideal in the human heart" if the phrase "his own soul" gives you galloping hysteria. Sheesh.
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Well, at least you write "beefy" vanities.
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Well done.
I am reminded of that Sat. Night Live bit where they would open the Weekly Update segment with "And, Francisco Franco is still dead!"
Shryke,
Thank you!
I'm here to help.
DIM1
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