Posted on 04/28/2004 12:06:48 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Torricelli Option: Will Dems dump Kerry?
Posted: April 28, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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There is palpable fear among Democrats as they contemplate their presumptive nominee, John Kerry, the candidate who couldn't keep his lies straight.
Kerry followed a week made disastrous by his military records fiasco with a Monday morning performance with Charlie Gibson of ABC's Good Morning America that will live in TV history alongside the 1980 Roger Mudd-Teddy Kennedy exchange through which it dawned on America that a senator in search of a verb wasn't really equipped to be a president.
Gibson's refusal to be deflected by Kerry's rambling incoherence led to a post-interview denunciation of ABC by Kerry. "They are doing the work of the Republican National Committee," Kerry muttered. Yeah, that's the ticket. Jennings et al., are working for the GOP which is working for Fox News' Roger Ailes who is, of course, working for Halliburton. Hillary's vast, right-wing conspiracy just got vaster. Like the Borg, the VRWC has absorbed Disney-owned ABC. Who knew?
There are powers in the Democratic Party, and they cannot be pleased. Tom Daschle, for one, has got to be thinking through the impact of a presidential contest that is over once the polls close at 6 in the East. That sort of wave in 1980 took out George McGovern and a lot of famous liberals just like Daschle.
Streisand's got to be worried as well. She knows what happens when the movie tanks in the first 10 minutes. People return her phone calls, even though she doesn't make any sense at all. Rob Reiner knows a thing or two about stiffs as well. Remember 1994's "North"? Neither does anyone else. Reiner knows that hopes and dreams do not a success make.
And the Clintons-in-Exile, they must hear the music. Forget their ethics and policies, they have a well-deserved reputation for perfect pitch when it comes to politics. Imagine Bill and Hill watching Kerry strangle himself. How they must laugh ... then cry. Hillary gets the nod in 2008, but what will be left after the wipeout?
Another movie analogy: Jim Carrey in the bathroom scene from "Liar, Liar" when he tries to injure himself. That's John Kerry over the past six weeks, throwing himself against walls in front of the national TV audience with the effect of inflicting maximum damage on himself.
It has worked.
Too well, I am afraid. Dems know he's a loser. But can anything be done?
Who knows? Don't bother looking up the rules governing nominations. There were rules in Florida, and the Florida Supreme Court tore those up when Gore needed help. There were rules in New Jersey, but when Torricelli flamed, the New Jersey Supreme Court tossed those aside. There were rules in California, and three judges ordered a halt to the recall that only went forward because the luck of an en banc draw brought sanity to the review panel.
No, the rules won't stop Kerry's recall. Only Teddy can, and the weight of the senior senator from Massachusetts shouldn't be underestimated. The Kerry campaign is his last hurrah, and the convention's in Boston, for goodness sake. What kind of a reception would follow a party that tossed Kerry onto the tracks?
Does Daschle care? Does Patty Murray? Barbara Boxer? Any of a half-dozen endangered Dem incumbents in the Senate and a score in the House? So the receiving committee is a littlie frosty and Teddy dumps them from the Christmas card list – they'll still have jobs.
And Dean – what's he thinking when he can get the voices to quiet down? He was robbed, you know ... by the same people now conspiring against Kerry. Dean doesn't forget, and there's not enough Ambien in America to get him a night's sleep. What if, with another yell, he decides to demand an open convention. "Let the delegates vote!" isn't a bad slogan. Bring back all the orange hats and the blog and all that. Quite a party could be had by all.
Bill Clinton just announced the publication date of his new memoir: Late June. How unfortunate for Kerry – Bill has to do a book tour for the month running up to the convention, sucking the air right out of an already spent balloon. Sorry, couldn't be avoided. Publisher deadlines and all.
So as Kerry melts away, there – on every television screen in the land – will be Saturday Night Bill, playing his sax, blowing his own horn, saying stuff. All sorts of stuff. Looking incredibly large, opposite the incredibly small Kerry.
Tick, tick, tick. The Torricelli Option. Coming to theaters near you this summer.
Torricelli JohnJack WheelerRemember Robert Torricelli? He was one of the biggest crooks ever to infest the United States Senate (and that's really saying something, isn't it?). How crooked was he? "The Torch" was so crooked that ... (Johnny Carson drum roll, please ...) he was too crooked even for New Jersey.
Friday, March 19, 2004The investigations of his taking bribes reached such a fever pitch that in late September of 2002, with less than five weeks before the election, he resigned and gave up his run for re-election. New Jersey law was quite specific that this was too late for the Democratic Party to nominate a replacement.
But the Dems got a crooked judge to waive the law, allowing them to put Frank Lautenberg in at the last moment, who then defeated the Republican nominee, Doug Forrester.
A few days ago, my buddy Capt. Larry Bailey - former Commandant of the Naval Special Warfare Training Center (the place that trains the Navy SEALs) - made an interesting prediction. "You know, Jack, I wouldn't be surprised if Kerry ends up like Torricelli."
This is not - NOT - to accuse Hanoi John of being a crook. To the best of my knowledge, John Kerry has never used his office to extort bribes the way Robert Torricelli did. The parallel is different, and it is this:
In 2002, the Dems were facing absolute certain electoral defeat in the New Jersey Senate race. Their only chance of winning was to dump their candidate - Torricelli - and substitute someone else. This worked. Kerry's negatives are far different from Torricelli's. Nonetheless, he is such a ghastly candidate that the Dems may feel they must do the same.
It's not just one major problem that Kerry has, like being Senator Flip-Flop, it's that there's a swarm of them and few are trivial. Let's review them.
Yes, his looks may be trivial - but it's hard to picture Americans electing a president who looks like Gomer Pyle - or Herman Munster, the simpleton Frankenstein of TV's "The Munsters."
His war record is highly questionable. Killing a wounded unarmed defenseless man in cold blood is a war crime, not something that deserves a Silver Star.
The vast majority of Vietnam veterans hate his guts for his anti-war protest activities and his public slander of them in the most libelous terms in congressional testimony. Expect to see hundreds of thousands of them on the Washington Mall in an anti-Kerry rally this September. To them, he is Hanoi John, fully as despicable as Hanoi Jane Fonda - and this label will stick.
Like Torricelli, he has never worked a day in his life in the private sector. He has no direct personal knowledge or understanding of what it means to run a business - or even to work for a business - meet a payroll, be an entrepreneur or manage a corporation.
Regarding the world of business, he hasn't a clue. He made his money marrying wealthy heiresses - who inherited their money and didn't earn it either. He has no respect or regard for what it takes to make money, to earn a living.
He tells bald-faced lies in public. The current flap about foreign leaders confiding in him that they want him and not GW is only the latest. There will be more.
He is impossibly boring, stentorian and pretentious, puffed up with preened self-importance - the whole Boston Brahmin shtick. That's just as phony as everything else about him, for he doesn't come from old-family Bostonian aristocracy at all, nor is he Irish. Americans are unlikely to elect someone so unendearing, so just plain not very likable.
The most prominent negative image is, of course, his being Mr. Flip-Flop - having the most liberal voting record of any sitting U.S. senator (even higher than Ted Kennedy's), yet at the same time trying to straddle every issue. This leads to the charge that John Kerry actually lives in Oakland, Calif., instead of Boston, Mass.
As Gertrude Stein said famously of Oakland, "There's no there there." There's no there to John Kerry, no firm center, no real identity. The more he campaigns the less Americans are going to understand who he is - because he doesn't know who he is himself.
Yet here is the biggest negative of all, and it may surprise you: John Kerry is a wimp.
This is the real reason his campaign is going to implode. He can't take the heat. He was the kid in grade school who "can dish it out but can't take it." One can only imagine the derision Harry Truman, who was fond of saying "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," would have had for Kerry.
Any and all criticisms of Kerry, no matter how legitimate – such as about his voting record – he regards as an "attack." Any criticism is an affront to him and unjustified. All criticisms of him are "vicious," products of the crooked, lying Republican "attack machine." The guy's a pansy, a crybaby, a sheep in wolf's clothing. All the tough-guy "Bring it on!" manly-man macho-strut is an act.
No one with any genuine self-confidence has such a diaphanously thin skin. He is going to do an El Foldo. He is going to crack under pressure. And when he does, the Dems are going to completely freak out with buyer's remorse.
The show will be better than a Ringling Brothers circus. The only question is when does the curtain rise and the show begin - before or after the Dems' July convention?
If after, with Kerry formally and legally nominated, will they try to pull a Torricelli? The show won't be pretty, but it sure will be fun to watch.
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Actually, Kerry made the comment to the reporter after the interview, as he was taking off his mike after the interview. Kerry actually said, "You are doing the work of the Republican National Committee."
To ABC's credit they ran Kerry's caustic remark.
Clinton-McAuliffe Strategery: Dump Kerry in July?
4/17/04 | Mondoman
Posted on 04/17/2004 6:25:20 AM PDT by mondoman
Daily we hear about the "presumed" Democratic candidate. But what limitations require the Democratic Convention to nominate John Kerry? What would be the impact on the Bush campaign if the Democrats nominate Hillary (or anyone else) in Boston this summer? I have yet to read any editorials or columns with this speculation, but COULD IT happen, or are the delegates bound to nominate JFK?
Think of this: the Bush campaign is shooting a large portion of their campaign budget at key states early in the season to "define" KERRY as the "presumed" opponent. Under the new campaign finance laws, if the Democrats change horses in July, will the Bush campaign and the conservative "527"s be able to respond? Is not the campaign limited on how much money can be raised from individual donors? What practical limitations will be imposed on GOP efforts?
If by July, Kerry is obviously going down as hard as McGovern in '72, yet the polls show Bush is vunerable, might not the Clinton forces in the Democratic party make a play to depose the apparent nominee? History shows they can be polically ruthless.
If you have found any articles on this subject, please link to this thread. If you have 'concrete' and factual understanding of campaign spending limitations and the rules governing the Democratic nominating process, please post them.
I'm not predicting this will happen, just asking the question: "COULD it happen, and if so, HOW MIGHT IT IMPACT the Bush campaign's early definition media strategy?"
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
When MTP ran videos showing him testifying before Congress about committing war crimes, he laughed inappropriately, when one would expect a thoughtful comment on this serious subject. Kerry was trying vainly to spin........... then made a dumb comment about his hair, then and now.
Then we found out Kerry paid $1000 to fly out his hairdresser for his MTP appearance. Kerry's bigbuck hairstyling is ironic since one of the things that stood out as damaging was his comment about his post-Vietnam hair.
Kerry shoulda saved the thousand bucks for ads. His MTP appearance was a bust. His internal polls after MTP musta been dismal.
...The vast majority of Vietnam veterans hate his guts for his anti-war protest activities and his public slander of them in the most libelous terms in congressional testimony.Maily now predicts that we will have over TEN THOUSAND people at THIS "anti-Kerry/pro-Bush" event:Expect to see hundreds of thousands of them on the Washington Mall in an anti-Kerry rally this September.
To them, he is Hanoi John, fully as despicable as Hanoi Jane Fonda - and this label will stick...
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Tick, tick, tick. The Torricelli Option. Coming to theaters near you this summer.
Open convention, guess who steps in? I hope Rove and President Bush is keeping some money in reserve!
I somehow think he isn't dumb enough to put all his eggs in one basket. And if we are thinking Torricelli options and October surprise, I am darn sure Rove and the President are doing so as well. They have been watching the same behavior we have over the last 3 and 1/2 years. The democrats may think they are being clever, but I have noticed their cleverness doesn't seem to work quite the way they think it will.
Dims don't ever let the electorate forget how (gag) "tolerant and comapassionate" they are and how there's this hateful VRWC forever trying to bring them down.
Of course, "victimization" is always dragged out as the Dims' plusperfect defense.
She's taking him out, but not until October.
With a heavy heart (even, possibly, at this time of national tragedy)-she will run, for the people are demanding this sacrifice of her.
She can't and won't do the deed in Boston.
Oh, when Hillary replaces Kerry, her scenario will leave him positively greatful to be off the ticket and out of the spotlight (if he survives).
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