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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is swarmed by admirers during his Tuesday appearance at Sawyer Point downtown. One of the homemade signs hoisted there read: "Outsource Bush."
The Cincinnati Enquirer/STEVEN M. HERPPICH
Posted on 04/07/2004 10:25:07 PM PDT by RonDog
Sandal whappers serenade Kerry
By Gregory Korte and Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is swarmed by admirers during his Tuesday appearance at Sawyer Point downtown. One of the homemade signs hoisted there read: "Outsource Bush." The Cincinnati Enquirer/STEVEN M. HERPPICH |
John Kerry had seen the tactic before - it emerged on the campaign trail last week - but few others seemed to understand what was going on.What say YOU?Young Republicans wearing cheap sandals got in the front row and started clapping them together almost as soon as the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Sawyer Point on Tuesday.
Their message: that Kerry has flip-flopped on the issues.
"There's nothing I like better than talking to a great bipartisan crowd," Kerry joked. "You want to talk about flip-flops? This president said Condoleezza Rice wasn't going to testify, and the next day, she's going to testify."
Some union workers quickly surrounded the dozen Republicans with Kerry signs. Some elbows were thrown - as were some sandals - until two Cincinnati police officers broke it up.
The Hamilton County Republican Party disavowed any knowledge of the tactic, and Rep. Rob Portman - forced to field a question about the tactic in the official Republican response - seemed befuddled by it.
"I'm not sure hitting yourself in the head with a flip-flop makes a particularly compelling case," he said...
Should we FReep John "Flip Flop" Kerry with REAL "flip flops" - all across the USA?
The hired thugs and goon squad acted like brownshirts again I see. My only advice is that if they rough you up, don't hire Judicial Watch to persue the case for you.
Rondog I am from SO CAL I got flip flops in my closet RACK ITTTHere is an e-mail from ANOTHER of our very good FRiends from SO CAL, Mr. Ted Hayes:
Hey Ron,It is true! It is a great idea.
Also, I am working on a new dance and words to go with it called the
"JK-Flip-Flop Hop" The intent is get as many people in America doing this dance and song, especially College Repubs.. Hopefully by the fall, it will be a hit.
Perhaps, before the college students go home for the summer, or after they return in September, we can organize a support rally for President Bush in the form of a dance night similar the the 1950's sock-hop, or the Hop (dance) entitled, "JK-Flip-Flop Hop" (dance) where everyone brings or wears a pair of flip-flops.
In fact, we can even organize a "Flip-flop brigade" in which we march wearing flip-flops on our feet and carrying them in our hands beating out a cadence.
Know what I mean?What do you think?
It's coming soon.
I am due to speak at the OCYR April 14th in Orange County.
I am going to introduce it there.-- snip --
Thanks,
Ted
Broken promises? Heck, John Kerry is on record VOTING for and against the same policy time and time again depending on which party was in power.
Then there are his admissions of committing war crimes himself when he was in Vietnam (a charge he now claims was the words of "an angry young man"). Did he lie about the military to our government and the press in a time of war providing aid and comfort to the enemy or is he an unindicted war criminal. Or may he is both?!!
Typical goonery. I'd like nothing better to see one of these goon squad members have to be carried "off the field" with a torn ACL.....
LOL I can see I've been out voted.I am also concerned that we must NOT "shout down" Kerry, as the left tires so often to do to conservative speakers - or even APPEAR to be "unfair" to him.
It's just that it strikes me as heckling, not protest.
But, the strategery behind this concept is just TOO POWERFUL to ignore. :o)See also:
Kerry flip flops killing him
HOW 'FLIP-FLOP' KILLS KERRY At Vote.com ^ | 3/17/04 | Dick Morris
Posted on 03/17/2004 6:00:12 PM PST by MNJohnnie
HOW 'FLIP-FLOP' KILLS KERRY by Dick Morris
March 9, 2004 -- It is increasingly clear that President Bush's line of attack against Kerry will be to describe him as a flip-flopping politician, changing his positions constantly to suit the political needs of the moment. One negative ad, previewed on "Meet the Press," showed an animation of two John Kerry boxers battling one another. The winner? George W. Bush.
The obvious goal of the Bush attack is to discredit Kerry and make it hard for anyone to believe in him or anything he says. But this round of flip-flop attacks is just the precursor of the main Bush offensive. Attacking Kerry for reversing himself on many key issues will weaken the Democrat, but the real point is to soften him up for two more deadly attacks likely to follow.
First, the flip-flop ads are designed to make Kerry appear too weak to lead America through the tough challenges of terrorism at home and abroad. Attacking a candidate for reversing himself on key political issues is the best way to make him appear weak, indecisive and vacillating.
When I worked for President Bill Clinton, the Republicans tried the same tactic, constantly citing his frequent reversals on issues to demonstrate weakness. Their barbs were very effective and led to a White House policy of never, never, never reversing a stand on anything.
(Sometimes, White House staff liberals took advantage of this axiom to leak word that Clinton was about to take a liberal position so as to foreclose him from doing anything else for fear of it seeming to be a flip-flop. During the welfare-reform debate, after Clinton had privately decided to sign a waiver to let Wisconsin move ahead with the work requirements and time limits its Legislature had adopted, some White House staffers leaked that he had decided to veto it instead. Terrified of seeming to flip on the issue, Clinton eventually backed off the Wisconsin proposal but then signed a national welfare-reform law. )
Bush wants to show that Kerry is too weak to lead the nation as a wartime president. It is no accident that Bush is opening his paid media campaign by reminding voters of his strong stance in the months after 9/11. He wants to raise the saliency of terrorism as an issue and to up the ante for the strength required of a chief executive. The flip-flop ads are his way of doing it.
By showing the Democrat as a man who can be pushed first one way and then the other by political winds, he shows him to be far from the strong, decisive leader America needs.
The flip-flop attack is also designed to prevent Kerry from responding to the other key line of Bush attack - that Kerry is too liberal for mainstream America.
By criticizing Kerry for changing his position constantly, the Bush campaign hopes to stop their opponent from wriggling out of his previous liberal votes and views. Once the public is alert to the chance that Kerry will change his mind, it becomes harder for the Democrat to explain away his votes and to move to the center under Bush's fire.
Now, when Bush moves in for the kill and accuses Kerry of opposing the Defense of Marriage Act or appropriations to fund the Iraq War, the Democratic candidate will find it harder to spin his positions and to move to the middle on these issues. When he tries, voters will repeat to themselves the Ronald Reagan criticism of Jimmy Carter: "There you go again."
By showing Kerry to flip-flop, Bush sets him up for the real charges - that he is too weak and too liberal to be president.
Conventional wisdom says that this election is going to be close, a replay of 2000. It need not be so. If Bush runs aggressive national advertisements, hammering at these themes, he can put this race away by the end of the spring.
We must remember that Bush's father trailed Mike Dukakis by 17 points in the months before the conventions. Until Bush Sr. ran negative ads, it seemed that the Massachusetts governor would be Reagan's successor. Kerry's bubble may prove to be just that fragile.
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...KOMMIE KERRY'S TREASONOUS, DUPLICITOUS, DOUBLEMINDED HEART AND MIND.Excellent!
You might even say that he is "TWO FACED!"See also, from "Senator Flip-Flop" John Kerry CARTOON by Linda Eddy:
Here is the FlipFlop TwoFaced Kerry 0cents Self-Adhesive Stamp that I created.
This is part of a 10 Stamp John "FlipFlop" Kerry Collection.
12 posted on 03/03/2004 4:20:00 PM PST by Seeking the truth (Some oldies/newbies are really full of themselves, aren't they?)
This is part of a 10 Stamp John "FlipFlop" Kerry Collection...See also, from 0cents.com:
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My idea: We should make it a state-by-state competition to see which state's FReepers can send Kerry the most flip-flops before the Dem. convention.This might work...
...to AGGRAVATE Kerry.I would also like to get these "flip flop" images into the MEDIA, though.
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