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Why the race is looking so good for Bush
MSNBC ^
| 4/22/04
| Howard Fineman
Posted on 04/22/2004 10:38:45 AM PDT by pookie18
Edited on 04/22/2004 10:43:39 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry's spin doctors claim that they haven't lost ground to George Bush in recent weeks, and they are staging what they insist is the "launch" of his general election campaign this week with new TV ads airing and a trip next week to the Midwest. But the fact is that Kerry has lost ground ground he has to make up if he hopes to win in November. The more interesting question is why? My reasons:
Richard Ben-Veniste & Co. The media loved the 9/11 commission hearings. By instinct, we thrilled to watch a prosecutor such as B-V on the hunt, creeping in on a witness like a big cat. But the commission, which served as a platform for the theatrical Richard Clarke and the cross-examinations of Democratic members, eventually came off as too political and partisan to damage the president. Just the opposite, I think. Too many of the commissioners ended up looking like they were pressing to prove that Bush could have and should have prevented the 9/11 catastrophe a theory the public doesnt buy. In fact, most Americans tend to blame the rise of terrorism here on the eight-year Clinton administration. Bush, without having to say much, was able to play the political victim.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911commission; clintonlegacy; fineman; gwb2004
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To: Phantom Lord
"The problem for Kerry is that America has met him and they don't like him."
It is even worse than that. The problem for Kerry is that he has met America and he doesnt like *us*.
21
posted on
04/22/2004 11:04:53 AM PDT
by
WOSG
(http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
To: Maceman
See post33 on that DU thread...
SlackJaw (9 posts)
Thu Apr-22-04 10:08 AM
Response to Reply #30
33. I would agree with you...BUT
I went to the Sheraton Bal Harbor rally and fundraiser that John Kerry spoke at. In attendance was Kerry, Edwards, Graham, Nelson, and many others. Kerry almost put me to sleep, the crowd was small and unenthusiastic, and people were even walking out during the speech. I am discouraged.
22
posted on
04/22/2004 11:05:36 AM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Maceman
They are nothing if not delusional.
Their entire thought process is "Everyone I hang out with hates Bush, so therefore Bush is going to lose big time!"
In reality, they need to wake up to the fact that everybody they hang out with is a freaking idiot, like themselves.
23
posted on
04/22/2004 11:07:07 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: hobbes1
Watch for those numbers; at the "This reminds me of Vietnam" thing down in LA yesterday, the paper actually said there were only 200 people there!
Add that to the SMALL crowds he's had in Floirda.......and something IS going on, IMO.
24
posted on
04/22/2004 11:07:35 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: pookie18
When a DNC kool-aid drinker like Fineman writes stuff like:
"He is a wooden campaigner, and his 20 years in the Senate have left him unable to see that bragging about legislative maneuvers is the last thing you want to do."
... and...
"Kerry told financial supporters in New York the other week that his objective...was to preserve my acceptability. Thats a pretty low standard but one he wont meet if that is his only goal. So far, his strategy has amounted mostly to: Vote for me, Im not Bush. Thats not enough especially if Kerry is seen by most voters the way the BC04 ad portrays him: as a flip-flopping manipulative insider.
I say it's over for Mr. Kerry-Kohn. The stealth Klintoon attack machine has begun it's evil work.
Wait.. what's that I hear off in the distance? Why it's the sound of cloven hooves clip-clopping on the pavement and the legs of a pig in a polyester pantsuit rubbing together.
25
posted on
04/22/2004 11:07:58 AM PDT
by
Condor51
("Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." -- Frederick the Great)
To: mlbford2
WOW! Those folks have way too much anger...but there was this gem from SlackJaw.
"I went to the Sheraton Bal Harbor rally and fundraiser that John Kerry spoke at. In attendance was Kerry, Edwards, Graham, Nelson, and many others. Kerry almost put me to sleep, the crowd was small and unenthusiastic, and people were even walking out during the speech. I am discouraged.
26
posted on
04/22/2004 11:08:29 AM PDT
by
ijcr
(Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ability.)
To: Howlin; pookie18; cyncooper
In Fineman's own words, the 9 reasons:
Richard Ben Veniste & Co
Fallujah and Najaf
"Resolve"
Bob Woodward's Blessing
Tony and Trump
50 Million Bucks Worth of Ads
The Economy
Nader
Kerry, of Course
27
posted on
04/22/2004 11:10:39 AM PDT
by
EllaMinnow
("Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
To: Condor51
Don't yu worry. Fineman will be out with in article next week claiming Bush is the spawn of lucifer, keeper of the gates of hell banished to earth by satan to wreek havoc on the land with his republican evildoing minions of blood lusting followers. Or some derivitive of that.
28
posted on
04/22/2004 11:13:22 AM PDT
by
mlbford2
To: pookie18
People are beginning to note the obvious, which is Kerry is a terrible candidate for President. Even the envirowacko's hate him, he's sold them out too many times in the name of "political expediency".
From his speaking style, to his embedded arrogance, the guy is the winner of what Krauthammer accurately described a month ago as the "weakest, and weirdest, group of candidate for President the Democratic Party has ever offered" or words to that affect.
If you are a Bush supporter, Kerry's a gift thats even better than Howard Dean. Kerry, unlike Dean, has a 19 year track record of being wrong on every major issue of his time in the Senate.
29
posted on
04/22/2004 11:13:47 AM PDT
by
Badeye
To: Badeye
BTTT
30
posted on
04/22/2004 11:15:43 AM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: Huck
3 weeks ago Howie said Bush was in huge trouble.
Like Morris, his opinion is meaningless.
31
posted on
04/22/2004 11:18:33 AM PDT
by
Finalapproach29er
(" Permitting homosexuality didn't work out very well for the Roman Empire")
To: pookie18; Howlin; Pikamax; redlipstick
He left out one very important reason.
Sodomites.
Everyone knows that were Kerry not running for president he would be endorsing sodomite marriage. Support for it is universal in the milieu he comes from. Americans are rightly worried about the kind of "civil rights" Kerry appointed judges will unleash on them.
To: redlipstick
Bad candidates lose elections Carter, Dole, Mondale,Kerry all come to mind. People like candidates with some appeal....Reagan, Clintoon, George W. I'm afraid to say that probably most of the undecideds vote based on who the "like". Not what they stand for.
33
posted on
04/22/2004 11:19:24 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Maceman
Don't drink the Kool-Aid at DU!
34
posted on
04/22/2004 11:20:43 AM PDT
by
pookie18
To: The South Texan
I guess he must have a book in the works...
35
posted on
04/22/2004 11:21:28 AM PDT
by
pookie18
To: Sam the Sham
for later reading
36
posted on
04/22/2004 11:21:39 AM PDT
by
scott0347
("Free Republic": Disturb, manipulate, demonstrate for the right thing)
To: Maceman
I think some are already panicking.
37
posted on
04/22/2004 11:24:13 AM PDT
by
meatloaf
To: Badeye
But on some issues, he was right before he was wrong ;-)
38
posted on
04/22/2004 11:24:21 AM PDT
by
pookie18
To: pookie18
"...So far, his strategy has amounted mostly to: Vote for me, Im not Bush..."
Yup, and he's not JFK either.
He'd better saddle up his Gulfstream 5 and fly away. BTW, how does my truck compare to the fuel use of a G-5?
39
posted on
04/22/2004 11:25:01 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(John Kerry - Cheezewhiz for the mind - marshmallow mush for the masses)
To: 1Old Pro
AS my sainted mother used to say...
"The one who smiles, wins!"
40
posted on
04/22/2004 11:25:48 AM PDT
by
EllaMinnow
("Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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