W. HAS NIXON-SIZE 'CREDIBILITY GAP': TED

New York Post ^ | 4/06/04 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST

[kattracks]

April 6, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy yesterday charged that President Bush's credibility was no better than Richard Nixon's - drawing an immediate rebuke from Republicans. A Kennedy spokesman said Sen. John Kerry's campaign was given advance warning of the scathing speech from one of its top supporters, but denied that Kerry consulted with Kennedy on it. In his remarks to the Brookings Institution, a think tank in D.C., Kennedy also said, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam."

[csvset]

..credibility gap..

Ironic, coming from Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy.

[JohnHuang2]

TEDDY HAS HUGE GAP BETWEEN EARS, PERIOD: JOHNHUANG2

[zarf]

This one deserves a TED alert.

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[JohnHuang2]

Then again, Teddy can sure rev up the party faithful. Republican Party faithful ;-)

[demkicker]

Says the bloviator with zero credibility.

[JohnHuang2]

bump!

[DoughtyOne]

I can't tell you how it makes my blood boil to hear Vietnam described as Nixon's war. The man took power when Johnson had put 550,000 US troops on the ground. Nixon reduced that number over time until all our troops were out.

Johnson committed us to protect the South, then place MacNamara in charge and tried to macro-manage the whole thing from the White House. MacNamara was an incompetant bastard. He cost us the war and Johnson his office. Nixon is blamed for taking too long to get us out, but he didn't want to cut and run leaving the south to be slaughtered. We had committed to protect them.

Nixon would have won that war by taking it to the North and bombing them into submission. The democrats knew this and fought him every step of the way.

The NVC wouldn't even come to the peace talks until Nixon bombed them into submission. Then the democrats demanded he impliment cease fires that allowed the north to regroup and resupply.

Ted Kennedy is an ignorant hit and run perp who killed his date and has never been held to account.

Now he wants to sit in judgement over other people's character, and the democrats find that a delightful prospect.

There isn't much lower than a democrat these days. They'll side with anyone and anything to get power back. Despicible, thy name is 'democrat'.

[claudiustg]

The Kerry campaign must already be in a stupor if they're letting Kennedy play the surrogate. They need to lose Teddy. It's like driving around with a dead skunk stuck to the front of your truck. It's not likely to get you the kind of attention you want.

[Qwinn]

I'm just curious... what did Ted Kennedy say when Nixon pointed out that Alger Hiss was a traitor, and most Democrats tried to protect him?

The original JFK believed that Hiss was in fact a traitor, but that doesn't mean Ted did.

Qwinn

[wingman1]

At least his credibility gap is not "Kennedy size".

[willgetsome]

I hate to say this, but I think Bush will lose.

All Kerry needs to do is focus on the war in Iraq and he will win. The reason is simple: we could have taken al-Sadr out of the game last year, but we were afraid to do what needed to be done. From the Generals all the way up to Bush, we have done more to "pacify" our warrior, "realpolitik" strategy in favor of high ideals that look nice on paper but mean nothing to the average Muslim man. The fat clerics who rant about violence and civil war on a daily basis have been allowed to build their power-bases. So now that the fat little clown from al-Sadr has more visibility and a larger army, we find ourselves on the verge of utter chaos with Americans heading home in body bags. All because a year ago we refused to take him out of the game.

Thanks for nothing, Mr. Bush. I'm sure if the parents of our dead soldiers knew that we are currently playing with our hands tied you'd be thrown out quite easily. The really sad thing is that your replacement is a far greater threat to this county's security.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for nothing, Mr. Bush.

"Who are you talking to?"

[RichInOC]

Teddy has beachball-sized liver: Rich

[pt17]

The fat clerics who rant about violence and civil war on a daily basis have been allowed to build their power-bases.

Time will tell if you're right on this. Without significant intervention, a coalition of (a) independent foreign insurgents, (b) Saddam's Sunni loyalists, (c) Iraqi Shiites looking for power, (d) Iranian Shiites fighting our presence, (e) Al-Quada, (f) Hamas, (g) Hezbollah, et. al., could significantly impact the war in Iraq, if it hasn't already.

[tessalu]

Let the ones without sin cast the first stone. Ted Kennedy has only killed one person. And he is out throwing stones. Bad boy!

[meenie]

I think that Kennedy is picking on the wrong man when he is comparing Bush to Nixon. He should be comparing LBJ to Bush. Both are Texans, both started ratcheting up conflicts already in progress by questionable propaganda and events. Both have relied on advice that has not been well thought out and both have been caught in circumstances beyond their control.

Both have used the domino theory to jusify their actions, LBJ to defeat communism and GW to defeat terrorism. Guns and butter at the same time without sacrifice of the people has left the economy of both administrations weak. There are so many comparisons it is uncanny. Nixon has to be given credit for ending a conflict that was unmanageable but did not have the courage to speak the truth on Watergate and let the press take him down. The same conditions exist today with the press smelling blood like sharks in the water.

[jagrmeister]

Ted Kennedy is a coward and therefore an apt representative of the American left. 23M Iraqis would be imprisoned by a ruthless dictator if Ted Kennedy and John Kerry had their way. Saddam would continue to have the children of dissidents tortured- sometimes having their eyes gouged out. In the world of Ted Kennedy, this would be acceptable. The line has been clearly drawn between the liberators like President Bush and apologists like Kennedy, Kerry, and the French. The American people simply have to decide on which side of the line they stand.

[GailA]

Amen!