Time for the BUSH campaign to LOCK & LOAD

Drudge Report stories | 7-9-04 | GLDNGUN

[GLDNGUN]

We have major TWO issues at play right now that are live grenades. We can't let them slip away out of Kerry's hands. We HAVE to use these issues RIGHT NOW while they are still hot and put Kerry on the defensive.

[GLDNGUN]

Remember how FAST BC04 turned around Kerry's famous "I voted for the war, before I voted against it" and had it in a commercial? I expect something like that might happen again. :) PLEASE, let it happen again! And AGAIN. And AGAIN!

BINGO! :-)

[Poohbah]

Actually, the American public has tuned out politics until after Labor Day.

Kerry brought it back up--and his numbers took a dive, as they always do whenever he opens his mouth.

[GLDNGUN]

God forgive me for saying this....President Bush will not fight. It will cost him the election in my view.

I'm sure God will and so will I. :-)

I'm sure he will fight when the time is right. In the meantime, others should be doing more. Cheney has been good going on the attack against Kerry and we need more of that.

Remember this - if Bush wasn't a fighter, Al Gore would be President right now.

[The South Texan]

Good ideas, but the GOP is gutless.

They need to fight with fire.

With people like McCain, Hagel and Frist as the "go to" Republicans, we'll never see our side put up the fight that needs to happen. That's left up to forums like this one and shows like Rush and Hannity.

[GLDNGUN]

As of now, it appears obvious that George Bush is going down in flames.

Hey, come on, it's not that bad. Sure I wish Bush was up by 20 points right now, but Kerry's momentum was stopped weeks ago. We just need to keep him on his heels, explaining dumb statement after dumb statement. Then the GOP convention and debates will be the knockout blows.

[canadiancapitalist]

Speaking of debates, I've come up with an excellent question President Bush could ask John Kerry.

President Bush: Don't you find it ironic, Senator Kerry, that you wish to lower the same health care costs that your running mate, Senator Edwards, fought to raise during his career as a trial lawyer?

Tell me what you think. If it's good, forward it to every GOP organization you can think of.

[Graymatter]

You've said a lot---much good advice. I'll just make a comment or two on the minor points where I disagree...

I watch/listen to the tv every waking moment. (Housebound.) That's 19 hours a day. I don't remember when I last heard a Bush commercial but it's probably a week, and I'm in PA. I hear Kerry commercials at least once an hour.

The commercials I have heard from Bush/Cheney, nearly all on the internet, not tv, are awful. I'm sorry, but they just are. Instead of someone respected---like George Bush, for starts---looking you right in the eye and talking plainly, the latest commercial offers a series of hallucinatory visual images floating about, and a voice-over of some unknown woman talking in a very snide and catty tone of voice. This isn't appealing. It's downright irritating.

In contrast, Kerry's latest commercial has him doing the talking, facing the camera, looking real grounded and forthright, to anyone who doesn't know better.

Why can't the Bush commercials stick to what they did with McCain, get one recognizable person, to make one particular point per commercial? This gets attention, not just from viewers, but from the media and the opposition. The more attention, the better, if the message is clear and brief.

The media has collectively realized they don't have to be fair and even-handed. There's nothing anyone can do about it if they aren't.

I honestly think it'll be a miracle if Bush wins again. In fact, in the current climate, he'll be mighty lucky just to survive the presidency. The left is utterly deranged now, and Bush/Cheney is still rolling along on the high road.

Praying I'm wrong. :(

[Dog Gone]

Unless they drastically change the format of the debates for this year, the candidates will never have the opportunity to ask the other candidate a question. We have to depend on whichever (typically liberal) reporter to ask the question, and they'll never ask this one.

However, it might be rather easy to put the message contained in that question into any response to a question regarding health care, and I hope Bush and Cheney do it.

[urbanrepublican]

Letters to the editors of local papers would be very helpful on this one. I, for one, want to know about the things that "conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country".

[Cicero]

Blacks already are voting 95% Democrat. Can they be offended any more than that by a simple presentation of the facts?

I have heard that there will be large number of black delegates at the Boston convention. But somehow or other, the Democrat leaders never give any of them important posts.

[myrabach]

I am in Pennsylvania and I see lots of Bush commercials, I just don't look at the "other" ones! But this is a swing state, so we get oodles of attention.

[baseballmom]

I live in the Philly suburbs - I see B/C commercials frequently. They are fighting hard for this state. GW was just here again today - at Kutztown Univ, Lancaster, and York.

[streetpreacher]

"ISSUE #3 - John Kerry says he believes life begins at conception..."

Well, that's a non-issue to this administration, as they think abortion is the "third rail" of politics.

[streetpreacher]

"It is a great example of John Kerry's priorities that on the day he said he did not have time to receive his intelligence briefing on threats to America, he found time to attend a Hollywood fund-raiser, filled with enough hate and vitriol to make Michael Moore blush." -Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman.

I LIKE this guy!

[streetpreacher]

Nope. Dubya' is a fighter. I remember everyone saying the same thing in the 2000 primaries with McCain after New Hampshire. "He doesn't look like he really wants it", the media chided, obviously hinting he was just running to live out his father's dreams (had him confused with a Kennedy), then the Governor started hitting back (of course when he proved he "wanted it", he was accused of "dirty tricks"). Mark my words: backed in a corner, this President will come out swingin'.

[streetpreacher]

But this is the inescapable conclusion based on what I'm hearing on national news broadcasts.

I can't believe you actually just wrote that. Turn off the television. Breathe deeply... Count to 10. Feel better?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Don Carlos]

it appears obvious that George Bush is going down in flames.

Oh, ye of little faith...

[Graymatter]

>>in the Philly suburbs - I see B/C commercials frequently.

Good! Maybe I'm watching the wrong channels. Right now I've got cspan on and Bush is rallying somewhere in PA. The crowd LOVES him.

I shouldn't give up hope, it's just hard to listen to the combined forces of MSNBCCNNABCCBS, doing Kerry's dirty work 24/7.

[reformedliberal]

WHICH networks do you watch? I am not housebound, but I work at home and I have FNC on in the background about the same number of hours you do. As said: I see BC04 ads very often.

I am in a battleground state and I work for the campaign. I do not agree the ads are terrible. I find them targeted and memorable.I don't watch the local TV because I am out in the boonies, have a satellite and don't feel like paying extra for terrible programming and biased news.

This is the 21st century. I don't know what your background in media and advertising might be, but the "hallucinatory visual images floating about," are what people respond to. In today's the world, the fast cut, the subliminal image are what the viewer is acclimated to. As for" and a voice-over of some unknown woman talking in a very snide and catty tone of voice." I found nothing snide or catty about the voice. The voice over is by definition *unknown*. I leave it to the mavens as to why they pick a female, but I am sure it has something to do w/the demographic they are targeting. Your opinion:" This isn't appealing. It's downright irritating.", is your opinion. The people doing these ads are pros and the amount of psychology that goes into all advertising today is actually intimidating, but it works or the multi-million dollar corporations would not use them.

Kerry's commercials are one-dimensional, IMO. They showcase this ugly, boring white male talking at the viewer. They are only about Kerry, not about America, not about the voter. They are aimed at making the viewer feel insecure and offering Kerry as a solution.

Bush's ads are about accomplishments and about the truth behind Kerry's promises. That's valid.

When one is the object of deranged hatred, it matters not what one does toward those who hate you. They will take whatever one does and twist it against the hated one.

The media is destroying itself. Collectively, it has lost credibility. This is borne out by the ratings, the stock values, the subscriptions, the ad revenues. There is nothing to be gained by Bush/Cheney or any of us who support them or who feel they speak to our future, in trying to counter the hatred. Instead, Bush has spoken to what he believes and it happens to be what enough of us believe that the poll ratings have withstood the assault and begun to increase.

So, I don't think it will take a miracle for us to win. I think it will take a catastrophe for us to lose.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion.