A Man of Affairs (Sen. Kerry's Staff Muzzles Howard Dean)

The American Spectator Magazine ^ | March 23, 2004 | The Washington Prowler

[threat matrix]

Not on the helpful list are meetings and public appearances with former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.

But given Kerry's tough financial bind, and the need to help Dean's percieved base of young voters happy, Kerry will appear with Dean in Michigan.

Dean is now operating only in tightly choreographed events that have been fully vetted by Kerry senior advisors.

His remarks are scripted by the Kerry campaign, ahd he has been asked not to 'ad lib' so as not to embarass Seantor Kerry.

'There are a lot of people who agree with the things Dean says,' a former Dean campaign staffer now waiting to be hired on to Kerry's national operation said.

'But the media seems to always find a way to twist it into something bad. He isn't going to change, so the Kerry campaign is going to change things for him.

[CzarNicky]

I love watching my enemies self destruct.

[sarasota]

Note to Kerry's handlers: Better put a muzzle on Kerry as well; and be sure his script is carefully crafted. P.S. Keep Teresa out of the media. That accent and her cosmetic surgery look is going to hurt Johnnieis image.

[zbigreddogz]

Yah, but we got in the way too soon. NEVER get in the way of your enemy when he is self-distructing. I fear we did that with Dean.

If Dean were the nominee, I could take an 8 month nap, and wake up with no doubt in my mind that GWB would still be president. Although I still think he's favored, I can't say that for certain now.

However, I am in full support of Howard Dean running around with Kerry all he wants. I think it helps us more then him.

[OldFriend]

Dean is going to allow this muzzling? Very puzzling!

[billorites]

So much for Kerry Catholicism. On Sunday, John Kerry showed up for the 10:30 Mass at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church at 10:41 a.m. (The church had roped off two pews for the VIP.) Adding further insult, Kerry arrived noisily, fully outfitted for skiing, not dressed for a religious service. Compounding the insult -- this time to all Catholics in good standings -- Kerry received the sacrament of Holy Eucharist, even though he's not considered to be a Catholic in good standing.

"It was just a media-op," says a Kerry advance staffer. "We set it up with some reporters that we knew were going to be there."

Kerry, who claims to be a practicing Roman Catholic (though lately he's been playing up his partial Jewishness), has consistently voted in support of abortion as both a state politician in Massachusetts and in his time in Washington. He has also spoken in support of euthanasia. He has stated that he disagrees with the Catholic position in both areas.

Under church law, Kerry's very public support of abortion disqualifies him from the sacraments. He is not known to be a regular Mass attendee. In fact, some Roman Catholics in Boston have in the past pressed for the bishops there to excommunicate Kerry for his refusal to accept Catholic doctrine and canon law.

Sen. Tom Daschle is finding himself in a similar position in South Dakota, where the bishop there has been rumored for months to be mulling excommunicating Daschle for his liberal positions on abortion.

[MrB]

Dean gives new meaning to 'ad lib' now, doesn't he?

He 'ad's his unabashed 'lib'erlism.

[Bonaparte]

His remarks are now scripted by the Kerry campaign but, according to the Deaniac staffer, Dean "isn't going to change."

It must be nice to be so delusional that you don't notice even your most glaring inconsistencies.

It just won't be the same without the old Dean, acting as defense counsel for Osama and Saddam, poignantly recalling for us his brother's "service" in Vietnam, reaching out to those voters with the "Confederate flag on their pickup trucks" and entertaining us all with his quaint and curious lore about that Vermont abortionist and supporter of the homo agenda, whose devout Christian faith is unshakable, even on a bumpy bicycle path.

Yearrrrrrrgh!

[threat matrix]

I think Teresa could upset the whole Dem apple cart with one ill timed remark, she is worth keeping tabs on!

[threat matrix]

According to reports, Kerry is going to send Dean out this summer to 'take out' Nader politically.

[Bonaparte]

"Dean is going to allow this muzzling?"

This could get interesting, OF. Dean's primary campaign made it obvious to all but the most enthralled Deaniac, that the man is mentally disturbed. Given his now legendary lack of self-control and his desperate desire to be in the limelight, I don't see how this can work out for the Kerry campaign. Obviously, their internal polling showed them they were not attracting enough Deaniacs to their banner. I wonder what they promised him -- or threatened him with...

[AppyPappy]

"Toby" Dean

[OldFriend]

I saw the pictures of Kerry and Terraaaazzzzaaa near the church as was appalled at their attire.

Evidently respect is not something that would occur to these elites.

[samanella]

Not to mention a divorce in his past.....

[SpinyNorman]

"It was just a media-op," says a Kerry advance staffer. "We set it up with some reporters that we knew were going to be there."

Old habits die hard for "Liveshot" Kerry!

I am surprised it wasn't a black church, but I doubt there would be any where Kerry is living......

[GrandMoM]

BTTT

[billorites]

"Not to mention a divorce in his past....."

Not a problem for Gigolo John.

After 18 years of marriage and two children, the friendly Boston diocese granted Kerry an annulment. In the eyes of the church, he was never married.

Isn't that special.

[bayourod]

"In the eyes of the church, he was never married"

Then it was OK for him to take his daughter with him to buy a jock strap.

The NOW organization must be very proud.