KERRY CAMPAIGN'S FIRST SERIOUS MISTAKE

Real Clear Politics ^ | 8/20/04 | J. McIntyre

[MEG33]

I am enjoying this..Matthews frothing at the mouth was not helpful to Kerry either...

[princess leah]

Yep - Kerry himself opened up the Pandora's Box he wanted nailed shut!...They will never understand that TRUTH is its OWN DEFENSE and it STANDS FIRM. By Kerry pointing his finger and saying "aha - these guys are fronts for Bush" he's just forced the main stream media to actually take a look at the swift boat vets claims - something they weren't going to do!

[Christian4Bush]

I am enjoying this..Matthews frothing at the mouth was not helpful to Kerry either...

Matthews, Carville, Davis, Dean (YYYEEEEEARRRGHHH!!), the CryptKeeper (Alan Colmes)...

...heck, all they DO is yell.

[italianquaker]

Finally some coverage What if we gave a party and nobody came.(5-04 media conference).The truth is getting out there
Thank god. kerry blames bush for the vets honest account
ciao
w2004

[annyokie]

I'm loving this.

[vpintheak]

This si sgreat, and Chris Mathews losing his mind and acting like a complete idiot helps our side a lot as well.

[vpintheak]

This is sgreat, and Chris Mathews losing his mind and acting like a complete idiot helps our side a lot as well.

[vpintheak]

Well you know what I mean

[Atlas Sneezed]

This is the right analysis of the historic day the Kerry campaign "jumped the shark."

[CyberCowboy777]

Letter to the Editor

John Kerry is demanding that President Bush denounce the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, their two ads and their book.

All this has done is highlight the hypocrisy of John Kerry. Not only did he not denounce Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 911’, MoveOn.org shady ads or any of the 527’s; he actually used some of their propaganda to attack Bush. Example: criticizing Bush for waiting 7 minutes to leave those school children after the first plane hit while preparations to leave were made, while Kerry has admitted that he did nothing from the time the second plane hit the WTC until he was evacuated when the Pentagon was hit. By Kerry's own words, he and some of his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing "nobody could think".

Kerry’s lackeys like to point out that SwiftVets.com has received $200,000 from a Republican donor out of Texas, but they fail to mention the multi million-dollar infusions made to the attack ads against Bush. Kerry has been the beneficiary of $20 million in dirty ads from Soros, etc., (Soros a left wing zealot and not a U.S. citizen), but now Kerry is attacking the WH because of a $450,000 ad campaign by some U.S. Veterans. Kerry simply can't complain about one when he has been silent about the other.

Kerry may be highlighting one other thing: That these Vets have enough truth to really hurt him, and he needs Bush to protect him.

[freddiedavis]

BUMP FOR SUPPORT SWIFTVETS HERE... http://www.swiftvets.com/

[MEG33]

The fact that Bush has nothing to do with this and could not stop the Swiftboat vets from expressing themselves seems irrelevant to the dems..It does get coverage now because of Kerry's reactions and accusations against Bush...

I am loving the coverage they are finally getting!

[Califelephant]

What is really problematic for the Kerry campaign is this will eventually segue into Kerry's antiwar conduct when he came home from Vietnam. And it is his post-Vietnam antiwar record, more than anything, that has the potential to do real damage to his candidacy.

Amen to that.

[Petronski]

I hardly see that as the first. What about the gomer salute at the convention? What about the bunny suit? What about the ultimate prime mistake of basing his entire campaign on Vietnam in the first place?

[moodyskeptic]

John Kerry personally created this limb he now sits on. The Swiftvets are methodically sawing it off.

Kerry is SO SMUG in his confidence that the Old Media will circle the wagons for him, he attacks the Swiftvets as Bush campaign dupes.

Something is circling John, but it looks like big birds.

[hflynn]

Wolf Blitzer just did essential the same thing on CNN with an RNC person. Repeating the same question over an over an over an over an over which was will President denounce the Swift Boat Veterans ad(s). The RNC repeatedly told him President Bush has called for the end of all 527 ads.

[MEG33]

He took his camera with him to Vietnam to showcase himself all these years later..It is pathetic and in light of his anti war rhetoric against his own comrades in arms..GROSS HYPOCRISY

[OldPossum]

Time for another check to the Swift Boat Veterans. Please join in. Hey, we don't want just that rich Texan and me financing this, do we?

He appears to be the only one financing this according to the news write-ups, and I know that I have sent a check, so I have to reach this conclusion. No?

[maryz]

Kerry's public engagement of the issue in his speech to a Boston firefighters union

Just out of curiosity, did anyone hear of the attendance and/or reaction to Kerry's speech from the firefighters' union? (Several months ago, a group of Boston firefighters that sings was asked to perform at an appearance by Bush; Mayor Menino wouldn't let them because it was a "political" event. I believe there were some hard feelings.)