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Sen. John Kerry's SWIFT meltdown: Hugh Hewitt on why Dem's campaign, lib pundits are floundering
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 08/11/2004 2:31:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

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To: Restorer

Good Point.


81 posted on 08/11/2004 4:31:20 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: xzins
Basic new reporting, 101:
    WHO was Rassman?

    WHY was Rassman on one of the boats?

    HOW did Rassman get there? (The Why is a short answer, I think, the How, I'd bet, is more interesting.)

    WHEN did Rassman first meet Kerry?

    WHERE did Rassman fisrt meet Kerry?

    WHAT did they do together?

    WHO ELSE was involved, with Rassman at the time? Contemporaneous witnesses as to what Rassman was all about then.

O'Reilly gets a 0%. Total, utter total failure.
82 posted on 08/11/2004 4:32:25 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Hatteras
That political hack was Lawrence O'Donnell, and yes, it precipitated to the point of character assasssination of Ted Sampley.

You're right, Ted Sampley was snookered and took the bait and made a fool of on national TV.

83 posted on 08/11/2004 4:34:34 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Nobody But Bush | Kerry/Edwards: Re-inventing the we'll)
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To: JohnHuang2
What amazes me most about this story is that all of us new about the Swiftboat Vets long before they went public with the ad. Didn't the Kerry campaign know? REally, didn't Kerry's campaign staff ever notice or mention to him what was going to happen if he mentioned Vietnam? The stupidity is incredible. Or perhaps his campaign staff really wants Hillary.....

I mean, the story was out there, the testimonials were out there, I posted them on another forum weeks before it became a big media issue. Didn't the media see this coming? Amazing.

84 posted on 08/11/2004 4:39:44 AM PDT by vharlow
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To: JohnHuang2; StriperSniper; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; ...
PING!!!!!!

85 posted on 08/11/2004 4:41:09 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: vharlow

I truly believe that the DIMS are in love with Hitlary and see her as their salvation. Fortunately for US, she is a hated icon and has a HUGE amount of baggage for Bush to thrash on come the debates, Oct, etc.


86 posted on 08/11/2004 4:41:20 AM PDT by gunnygail (John F Kerry sure can "parlez vous a HUMMA HUMMA!")
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To: Ed_in_NJ

Very much like the "I did not have sex with that woman" issued by the Toon, maybe there's a stain on Kerry's hat?


87 posted on 08/11/2004 4:42:53 AM PDT by NYCop (Bush, the right choice for real men)
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To: JohnHuang2

"The voters have to ask if he can be trusted. In short: Free fall."

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!


88 posted on 08/11/2004 4:43:39 AM PDT by BillyCrockett
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To: JohnHuang2
"John Kerry is going to have to stand by his wildly implausible tales of cross-border excellent adventures, or he's going to have to apologize for inventing personal history."

Well, you would think so, but there is another tried and true RAT strategy and I expect that's the one he will use. Ignore the story except to launch attacks on those who "repeat" it, using the challenge to prove how "mean and nasty" his opponents are. He may even accuse THEM of lying.

"and how he'd kept the man's hat as a reminder of that journey."

So he steals, too?

89 posted on 08/11/2004 4:44:58 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: teletech
" I have NEVER seen hatred like this in my entire life!"

And it is a hatred that is so completely groundless and irrational.

90 posted on 08/11/2004 4:51:16 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: teletech

If you have never seen hatred like this before, you never saw the vilification of Richard Nixon.


91 posted on 08/11/2004 4:53:38 AM PDT by tkathy (The choice is clear. Big tent or no tent.)
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To: BluH2o
" When it's a 'Rat political candidate, such as Clinton, now Kerry, they always fall for it ."

They don'r fall; they comply.

92 posted on 08/11/2004 4:54:37 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: sweetliberty

EXACTLY! When the Kommissar commands, the little hacks fall right into line.


93 posted on 08/11/2004 4:56:46 AM PDT by gunnygail (John F Kerry sure can "parlez vous a HUMMA HUMMA!")
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To: sweetliberty
Ignore the story except to launch attacks on those who "repeat" it, using the challenge to prove how "mean and nasty" his opponents are. He may even accuse THEM of lying.

Reminds of a DEM saying "Haha .. those are very serious charges, if true. They will never be proven."

The bar will move, higher if the goal is to jump over it, lower if the object is to get over it yourself.

94 posted on 08/11/2004 4:56:56 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Jaxter
"He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear"

Well, you have to admit, that's one thing Kerry is good at.

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95 posted on 08/11/2004 5:04:25 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
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To: JohnHuang2
The print media will ignore this story. The electronic media, other than FNC, will ignore this story.

They have an agenda to further in case we hadn't realized.

96 posted on 08/11/2004 5:07:48 AM PDT by OldFriend (WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
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To: JohnHuang2
"The lefty bloggers and talking heads are stunned into silence, and have gotten no help from the Kerry people."

Hey, do the Swiftboat Vets have to list names of donors? I mean, how much have the Clinton's contributed?

Hehehehehehe.
97 posted on 08/11/2004 5:10:59 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: teletech

I do not beieve it is hatred of Bush, but that he represents the conservatives of America. And the world Socialists are sinking unless they can get a hold on the US. So their hatred of Conseratives and what we stand for.


98 posted on 08/11/2004 5:25:39 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry and The Taxocrates must be defeated, Flush the 2 John's)
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To: teletech

you assume polls are not manufactured for kerry...


99 posted on 08/11/2004 5:27:25 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: JohnHuang2

In a TV interview conducted by Greta Van Susteren earlier this year with Michael Kranish and Nina Eason of the Boston Globe, the following interchange occurred, which mentioned Kerry's oft stated contention that he spent XMAS Eve in Cambodia in 1968:

VAN SUSTEREN: Michael, did he cooperate at all with this or participate or sit down for interviews?

MICHAEL KRANISH, KERRY BIOGRAPHER: Well, sure. We did a series last year. It was a seven part series that ran 14 pages in the newspaper and he sat down for about ten hours of interviews for this series.

The book was written during the time when he was still running for the nomination right at the height of the Super Tuesday primaries and so forth, so our material for interviews was from the series.

To go back to your question you asked Nina, you know, he's also a skeptic of government. So, you ask why does he go, some people say flip- flop, other people would say why does he question things the way that he does?

A very short anecdote, he was in Vietnam and he was in Cambodia as part of a mission. I don't know if he intended to go but that's where he was but the government that was running the war knew that troops were in Cambodia but Nixon, President Nixon at the time was telling the American public, "We're not in Cambodia."

So, from a very early time, John Kerry is skeptical of government and he came back to protest the war that he participated in, so this is where some of this inner belief comes from. He does -- he did serve but he also questioned.

In a 1992 interview with John Diamond of the AP Kerry again makes the statement that he was sent to Cambodia. Here is an excerpt:

"But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.

"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.

"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.


100 posted on 08/11/2004 5:31:29 AM PDT by kabar
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