Posted on 08/12/2004 9:22:09 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Unlike the multimillion-dollar Bush-hating 527 groups funded by the likes of George Soros, the modestly budgeted Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has an ad running in only three states. But the Democrat establishment's attempts to censor the veterans has created enough publicity to hurt Sen. John Kerry's candidacy.
A new survey of 1,000 voters in 19 battleground states shows that nearly six in 10 had heard of the commercial. Among those, about half said the ad so far hadn't influenced their vote. Nineteen percent said it made them more likely to vote for Kerry, and 27 percent said it made them less likely, according to Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, a Republican polling firm in Alexandria, Va.
"In a close race where every little bit counts, Kerry can't afford to sustain too many minor hits like this," said Tony Fabrizio, who was chief pollster for Bob Dole in 1996.
"Kerry can't afford to sustain too many minor hits like this,"
Hit 'em again, hard.
Well, hopefully, they will find a way to run it in a few more states.
To me, this is more sticks on the fire. The media and the Dem propaganda machine are distracting and disinforming at every turn, but bit by bit stuff like this is adding up.
Anyone can contribute at www.swiftvets.com
Minor schminor...let's find some major hits to lob his way!
Easy, donate!
He does that a lot, doesn't he? And I thought Gerald Ford was clumsy.
Kerry's best move is to ignore it. There is no positive way for him to respond to this.
'Kerry's best move is to ignore it. There is no positive way for him to respond to this.'
Rush mentioned today that some in the press are beginning to get angry at Kerry for ignoring the Swiftboat/Cambodia controversy and are starting to wonder if at least some of it is true. I hope Kerry keeps ignoring it. It makes him look worse every day.
The SwiftVets should make a second ad, this one using Kerry's own voice proclaiming all US soldiers to be war criminals.
In the ad background, show pictures of the many kindnesses US soldiers did for Vietnamese citizens.
If that ad doesn't work, they should come up with something different than just proclaiming "Kerry was not truthful."
While that is absolutely true, it will only carry with a certain percentage of voters.
Kerry's reprehensible conduct, both in Vietnam and afterwards, is extremely replete with issues on which to show him being an utter traitor to both his men and his country.
The way I see it - Kerry decided to run on his Vietnam record instead of his Senate Record. He decided his Vietnam record was more important because he has to prove he is a macho man. He prefers to hide his shabby Senate record and play the Vietnam one so now he has to pay the piper.
The only positive way to rebut this would be for sKerry to release his military records, and have them back up what sKerry has said. The odds of that happening though are bad enough to operate an improbability drive to the other side of our galaxy.
Of course he's lying - his campaign has now admitted his 30 year long lies about "Christmas in Cambodia" were, in fact, not accurate.
That's why the Cambodia thing is so big. It's about the only thing his campaign has actually responded to, and they're trying to backpeddle from JF'nK's ... er, testicular on-the-record statements. Clearly he lied about it for years, and people are beginning to hear about it.
The media is in a tough spot here. They want Kerry to win, but they also face being exposed as the shills they are. Their viability as news sources is at stake. My feeling is that they're going to try to walk the thin line. That means they'll start damning Kerry with faint praise -- "well, yeah, he lied about stuff for years, but now he means what he says....."
My understanding is that the Kerry campaign has admitted that the assertion that "Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas 1968" is not true. Period. Not true. To assert that Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas 1968 is a lie, and the media knows it, and has had the admission in hand for a day.
I'm waiting to see some nice Grandma or Grandpa standing in a Kerry receiving line, whip out a ballpoint pen and a Form 180 and ask him politely to sign it.
Release the records.
Nah. Smack the SOB's chops and put The Wall in the background.
Exactly. No move is positive.
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