[Just mythoughts]

"If I was them, I'd never have even resonded to the whiners about the 9/11 ads. I'd have just said, "we stand by the ads, next question?""


One does have to wonder now if the Bush/Cheney campaign were aware that the whiners were paid political hacks by Mrs. Heinz, and that is why they responded as they did.

[Fledermaus]

No way to know. I would have hoped it would make no difference.

[NYCVirago]

One does have to wonder now if the Bush/Cheney campaign were aware that the whiners were paid political hacks by Mrs. Heinz, and that is why they responded as they did.

No, I think they were just blindsided, and they shouldn't have been. Jack Doyle, former head of the firefighter's union here and a Bush supporter, had a tough time getting through to the campaign to show his support -- it took Rep. Peter King getting involved for the campaign to listen to him. Doyle was the 9/11 family member who wrote the open letter expressing support for the Bush ads. On the other hand, Kerry's staff not only knew who their 9/11 family supporters were, but they even gave them talking points.