Democrats not swayed by Bush documents

AP | 2/14/04 | JENNIFER LOVEN

[geedee]

I still say . . . although no one will listen to me, not an uncommon occurrence, LOL . . . that we should look into Kerry's War years.

Things are not as they seem.

Who nominated him for the Silver Star? Who were the witnesses? How could they see anything if he "beached" his boat and disappeared chasing a wounded VC? Weren't those still in the "beached" boat sitting ducks while Audie Murphy-wannabe Lurch, if he did in fact chase the wounded VC, was out running around? What were the extent of his Purple Heart Injuries? How are these awarded -- by the wounded showing his superior a paper cut?

He's in combat two months, gets "wounded" three times, wins the Silver Star, requests to be relieved because of his "injuries," goes to a cushy job, smells the political air, then immediately starts protesting against his country. Bullshit. It's too neat. It's too choreographed. A rich guy stuffed his resume, that's all. And we need to prove it.

Where are all his boat-mates? We're a "me, me, me" society now. Why aren't the "witnesses" to his heroism posing for book deals? Or at the very least appearing with Hitlery's press agent, Katie Couric, on the Today Show?

A punk doesn't change his ways. Lurch is a punk now . . . Lurch was a punk yesterday . . . and Lurch was a punk in the 60's. I don't believe his war record for one second.

GW dumped all his records on the table . . . isn't it only fair that Lurch do the same thing?

[longtermmemmory]

That is a far more significant story.

His campaign would free fall faster than dukakis' tank.

Too bad there are no reporters.

[NYCVirago]

What else is new? If Republicans had any sense they would decry this as a "politically motivated witch hunt." That's what liberals would do. Republicans never quite seem to understand that bloated language gets you lots of political mileage.

Wow, I wrote my post before seeing yours. I think I like the "politically motivated" adjective even better than "left wing" witch hunt. We need to start doing this.

[sweetliberty]

These people are pathological liars. Who cares what they think? The only real problem is that they are really evil people preying on really ignorant people. If ignorant people could be prevented from voting, there would never be another democRAT in power.

[ntnychik]

Of course democrats are "not swayed." Their rally cry is war by other means. Their patron saint is Saul Alinsky, one of Hillary's mentors. I highly recommend R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s book, Madame Hillary, which fully explains the philosophy behind democrat (and Hillary's) shenanigans. Truth is a mere inconvenience. If we shut down this issue, they'll slither off to a new "issue."

[longtermmemmory]

This was a friday document dump. Three day weekend. We political junkies would sort through them and on tuesday when the fed re-opens its old news. (then we can ask why kerry did not open his records, is that star silver or tin?)

[XEHRpa]

> faster than dukakis' tank

I'm proud to state that the famous Dukakis photo in the tank was taken where at our local Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. I'm glad we played a prominent role in putting a nail in that coffin.

[Publius6961]

"Each revelation of material from the Bush White House has raised more questions than it has answered," said Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Debra DeShong.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation." – Spencer

Nothing could possibly satisfy these hyenas, since the purpose of the exercise is to keep up the attack and have the victim waste time and energy on a defense. Truth is an inconvenient obstacle, nothing more. Further, the "story" keeps focus away from other things, like the self-destruction of the dimwits' candidates and their all-too real scandals.

Bush's biggest mistake was not to tell them collectively to "go pound sand" and refuse further discussion. It would then become a non-story.
Why Bush and many of us fueled the attack by giving it credence is beyond me. Other than expressing puzzlement at the goings on, I refuse to play.

[Owen]

You mistake the target of the action. The release of information was never going to persuade democrats. But its volume and the somewhat impartial nature of the AP article will look good to moderates and independents. The phrase "all the records" sounds really good. Independents will see no evidence of wrongdoing and declare the issue moot.

Comments from democrats are not likely to have much more in the way of legs.

[CIB-173RDABN]

This story is not harming President Bush.

As we Republican's learned the hard way when we tried to inflate every bad story we could find about Clinton it got to the point that even when there was real wrong doing, the public just quit listening.

Remember, the members of this forum don't reflect the views of all Americans. We are self selected, and by definition, are more interested in polictics then the average voter (or why would we be spending our Saturday mornings reading a news forum).

We wanted Bill Clinton defeated, and we "believed" and repeated every bad bit of news we could find on him.

Did it do any good? No, he was re-elected. By stressing every trivial event in Clinton's past, when real crimes were brought forward, Hillary could say it was just another lie from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. We did it to ourself.

The Democrats have fallen into the same trap we did, inflating every bit of bad news, and twisting every bit of good news. Well you know what? The average voters (the ones comfortable in the middle) did not care about the negative stories concerning Clinton, and they will not care about these negative stories about President Bush.

I think President Bush is showing just the right amount of response to these current alligations. Heavy sigh, roll eyes up in the head, and say ok, if you want to look, look and then dump hundreds of pages of documents that will not satisfy his enemies, but will the nebulus middle ground.

The AWOL story is a tar baby (can we still say that) for the Democrats. I say let them investigate all they want.

[torchthemummy]

True - i was trying to be as generous as possible.

[TigersEye]

DemonRats won't be swayed by anything except a landslide for Bush in November.

[mabelkitty]

That is the intent of the 9/11 investigation, as per the Judicial Memos being held without hearing by Sargent at Arms Pickles.

[TigersEye]

The press probably bears more responsibility than any other factor in our failure in Viet Nam with its intentional misleading and demoralizing. They're still at it. In fact the mainstream press is more blatantly anti-American than at any other time in history. There seems to never be any accountability for them.

[#3Fan]

I believe if Jesus Christ came back and stood on the steps of the WhiteHouse and declared the Truth that President Bush did anything--the Democrats would walk out in protest -and stage their own news conference across the street in order to protect their base.

Those who crucified Jesus were Democrats, there just wasn't a Democratic Party then. :^)

[#3Fan]

Good post. I think you're right.

[BigSkyFreeper]

THE REASON THE DEMS ARE NOT SWAYED BY THE DOCUMENTS IS OBVIOUS .. THEY'RE JUST TOO STOOOOOOPID TO READ THEM.

Disagree. They're too partisan to give a rats heinie about whats said about him. They want to see the total destruction of Bush. These documents are just a temporary roadblock for them. Come Monday, they'll be spinning the truth after they pretend to spin their heads. The media is so predictable, I don't know why people are surprised anymore.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The only reason they're interested in this now is because not of Kerry's medals, or his anti-war past, but because now the Democrats now have a war hero they can rally around. Much different than Clinton (draft dodger) against Bush's father (WWII Vet) in 1992 and Dole (WWII Vet) in 1996.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Well, and if Jesus walked across the Potomac, the Democrats would say He couldn't swim.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I hope the White House will stop releasing material and move along now. The Dems don't want to be convinced, so they won't be, but every release of documents is an opportunity to ask more questions, and keep the idea that President Bush received preferential treatment in the news.

Agreed. The only ones who won't let this go will be the wacko fringe left Democrats and their Liberal biased media.