TWO WITNESSES COULD END KERRY PRESIDENTIAL RUN -- "The Phoenix Project"

various sources | 3-12-04 | dfu

[doug from upland]

THOMAS LIPSCOMB STORY

Reporter Thomas Lipscomb wrote the story which is linked above in the NY SUN. It has the potential to end the Kerry presdential run.

I had a great conversation with Lipscomb a short while ago. This story was too hot for some of the majors. But Lipscomb assured me it is well-sourced and is dead on.

Two witnesses have placed John Kerry at a Kansas City meeting of the hierarchy of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in November of 1971. At that meeting, they actually took a vote about assassinating United States senators. It was called "The Phoenix Project" and was the brainchild of Scott Camil. Kerry spokesman David Wade has denied Kerry was at the meeting.

The two witnesses who place Kerry at the meeting are Terry Du-Bose and Randy Barnes. What is very interesting is that Barnes is a big Kerry supporter and the head of Missouri Vets for Kerry. As a supporter, Barnes would certainly not make up a story that would hurt his candidate. He told Lipscomb of Kerry's attendance at the meeting.

Think of the implications. If the mainsteam media and major news networks do their homework, they may discover that a man who wants to be president was at a meeting discussing the possiblity of assassinating United States senators. That is a conspiracy. Instead of the White House, does John Forbes Kerry belong in the Big House?

Get on the phone to newsrooms and shame them into covering this story. A major mainsteam journalist returned by email in about a half hour after I sent him info. He finds it "interesting." Let's see if pursues it. He is notable enough, that if he does the story, all hell will break loose in the presidential campaign.

Note: Lipscomb is not a right-wing ideologue. He did a recent story defending Kerry over his medals. He also recently did a story in which he went after George Bush's National Guard service. He told me that he expected to find a drunken rich kid with coke up his nose. Instead, he discovered that Bush actually did more than make up the meetings he had missed and he honorably fulfilled his duty. And Terry McAuliffe knows it.

[nicmarlo]

What did John Formerly-Known-As-MachineGun Kerry know, and when did he know it?

Major bump.

[nicmarlo]

oooops, meant to include you in my "major bump." Thanks for the ping, meek!

[Victoria Delsoul]

The two witnesses who place Kerry at the meeting are Terry Du-Bose and Randy Barnes.

The witness will be discredited before any media reports are out.

[hershey]

Speaking of handy plane crashes, remember Ron Brown and the funeral where Clinton had problems keeping a straight face?

[fuzzthatwuz]

"Whether he was at the meeting or not, the press will portray it as him resigning from the group out of indignation that they would even discuss such a dastardly plan."

Ah. here comes the rub. Why did Kerry withold information that directly threatened the lives of our elected officials? This issue, if pursued, could turn out to be a major nosebleed for the pretender!

[pointsal]

ping.....bttt

[festus]

Even if this is true, and I don't doubt it is, this will not matter.

First the press won't run it on the same basis they didn't run the bit about the little lady sent to africa "everyon knows this already about kerry's past he was very anti-vietnam and its just not newsworthy".

Second if it does come out they will focus on discrediting the accusers and focusing on how the GOP is focused on obscure stuff in ages past.

Would you believe I have been called cynical....

[cookcounty]

" It may not effect his base support, but I think middle-America will find something disgusting about a man who was even a part of a group that would vote to assassinate American politicians."

Bingo. 25% of the population would willingly campaign for Satan himself for President, rather than see Bush re-elected, but the rest of the country would be pretty upset with Kerry's lackk of moral judgement.

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet ! ;^)

[cookcounty]

" The new name for Arkancide . . . Massextinction "

Oh, that's good! lol.

[doug from upland]

Barnes is the head of Missouri Vets for Kerry. That is the beauty of this. He's on his team.

[prairiebreeze]

And a bookmark to this thread

[petitfour]

The witnesses will lose their jobs, their homes, their families, and then the media will report how they were losers because they did not support John Kerry. They will be linked to Rush Limbaugh, the drug addict, and everyone will forget about it the next day.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Kerry is a danger to America

[doug from upland]

Here is the song that goes with the graphic --- CLICK.

[MHGinTN]

Doug, here's the fly in the ointment: if Kerry is vetted out and has to withdraw, the dnc has already proven they will substitute legally or illegally, to try and snatch power; hatellary rodhamster is panting in the wings and McAwful is champing at sinkEmperor's bit.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yep! Let's just hope and pray that this is not the case.

[doug from upland]

Hillary has been ready all along for this. It is the dream scenario.

[cookcounty]

In 1972, George McGovern picked Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate. The Convention ratified the choice. A few days later it came out that Eagleton had spent time in a psychiatric hospital. He stepped down and was replaced by Sargent Shriver, IIRC.

What legalities were involved in this, I do not know.

[Sabertooth]

See #49.

Thoughts?