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Gillespie Memo: Kerry Campaign as Inside Joke
Republican National Committee ^ | August 20, 2004

Posted on 08/20/2004 5:06:35 PM PDT by RWR8189

To: Congressional Leadership, RNC Leadership & Members of Congress

 

From: Ed Gillespie

 

Subject: Kerry Campaign as Inside Joke


Responding to the fact that Senator Kerry missed 76% of the of the Senate Intelligence Committee's public hearings, his campaign’s senior adviser called the statistic “misleading” because it represents only public hearings and not the numerous non-public hearings the committee holds.

So surely Senator Kerry will authorize the Senate Intelligence Committee to make public his and his running mate’s record of attendance at non-public hearings, right? Don’t bet on it. Their campaign thinks they can cite non-public hearings as discounting a dismal public attendance record with a wink, then refuse to authorize their public release with a nod.

The Kerry for President Campaign has taken political cynicism to a new low in this election, openly scoffing at what they consider to be the public’s-and the media’s-gullibility on issues as important as intelligence funding, national security, people’s jobs, the Federal budget, our nation’s energy supply and funding for our troops in combat, and even as trivial as “home cookin’.”

In a long series of “on background” and “off-the-record” comments, campaign officials and advisers have laid bare some remarkable hypocrisy:

After stopping at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant for a photo-op dinner, the Kerrys retreated to the campaign bus to sup on “Shrimp Vindaloo” and “Diver Deep Sea Scallops,” previously ordered from a nearby country club. Days later, after feigning a hankering for some “baby back ribs and a vanilla malted” from a famed Wisconsin diner, Senator Kerry was found dining on filet mignon at a nearby restaurant.

With the winks and nods to reality “on background” and “off the record,” the public is left to see only the stage-managed imagery on television and on-the-record comments of the candidate in print, which are explicitly designed to mislead. The Kerry Campaign has become naked in its disdain for the public’s ability to discern reality and mocking of the media’s traditional role of referee in the political arena, acting as though print reporters and TV news producers are part of some “inside joke” perpetrated on the voters.

Such contempt for the electorate and the media rarely, if ever, succeed. As a great Republican President once said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Senator Kerry’s blatant hypocrisy will not be able to fool the voters in November, nor will he be able to count on reporters to stand inside his campaign looking disdainfully out at the public and laughing at the inside joke instead of outside his campaign looking skeptically in at his promises and asking the tough questions.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gillespie; gop; joke; kerry; memo; rnc
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1 posted on 08/20/2004 5:06:36 PM PDT by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189

John F. Kerry served in Vietnam.


2 posted on 08/20/2004 5:10:32 PM PDT by Guillermo (OJ was innocent because Mark Furhman said the "N" word.)
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To: RWR8189
After stopping at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant for a photo-op dinner, the Kerrys retreated to the campaign bus to sup on “Shrimp Vindaloo” and “Diver Deep Sea Scallops,” previously ordered from a nearby country club. Days later, after feigning a hankering for some “baby back ribs and a vanilla malted” from a famed Wisconsin diner, Senator Kerry was found dining on filet mignon at a nearby restaurant.

This guy eats like a horse. He must have a hollow leg.

3 posted on 08/20/2004 5:11:59 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Guillermo
John F. Kerry served in Vietnam.

Yes, he did. Now we just need to point out which side he served.

Considering his conduct after he got back home, he wasn't serving our side.


4 posted on 08/20/2004 5:14:06 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Democrats. They want to have their cake and eat yours too.)
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To: RWR8189
But he's just been waaaaay too busy....

5 posted on 08/20/2004 5:14:09 PM PDT by flashbunny (Kerry helped move jobs to china - http://www.flashbunny.org/commentary/kerryoutsourced.html)
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To: RWR8189

"Such contempt for the electorate and the media rarely, if ever, succeed."



Newsflash: The media is as much apart of this contempt...if not moreso, than the Kerry campaign.


6 posted on 08/20/2004 5:14:56 PM PDT by cwb (John Kerry: Still attacking Vietnam Vets after 35 years.)
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To: Argus

The shrapnel left a large void that he fills with ____


7 posted on 08/20/2004 5:15:04 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: Guillermo

> John F. Kerry served in Vietnam.

Two weeks ago, I would have accepted that at face value.

Now I'm startin' to think: "so did Lt. William Calley"


8 posted on 08/20/2004 5:15:30 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: RWR8189

Nice article.. thanks for posting..


9 posted on 08/20/2004 5:15:47 PM PDT by tje
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To: Guillermo
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

I doubt anyone in the Kennedy family would agree with this statement.

10 posted on 08/20/2004 5:15:49 PM PDT by KevinB
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To: RWR8189

Hmmmp!

He gives the "media" far more credit than they deserve..
I expect the media to stand by Kerry, defending him, lying for him and ignoring his lies ----to the bloody end..

He is THEIR girlyboy....

Semper Fi


11 posted on 08/20/2004 5:23:30 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: RWR8189
After stopping at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant for a photo-op dinner, the Kerrys retreated to the campaign bus to sup on “Shrimp Vindaloo” and “Diver Deep Sea Scallops,” previously ordered from a nearby country club. Days later, after feigning a hankering for some “baby back ribs and a vanilla malted” from a famed Wisconsin diner, Senator Kerry was found dining on filet mignon at a nearby restaurant.

Kerry is a cartoon. He's half Thurston Howell and half that guy ( I think from the same folks that made that time traveler kid and dog cartoon ) spinning a tall tale about his brave exploits.

12 posted on 08/20/2004 5:25:01 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument.)
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To: cwb

Yes! Kerry is an a$$ and unfit for the Presidency, but the media knows it and is covering up important information that the uninformed public depends on them to give. Our current media will lose their footing and their jobs when America wakes up.


13 posted on 08/20/2004 5:28:36 PM PDT by MistyCA
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To: RWR8189
Such contempt for the electorate and the media rarely, if ever, succeed.

I don't know...the media seems to be loving every humiliating minute.

Ed is right about the electorate, thank God.

I hope he keeps up pointing out all of Kerry's problems.

14 posted on 08/20/2004 5:29:34 PM PDT by cyncooper ("We will fear no evil...And we will prevail")
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To: Argus
"This guy eats like a horse."

That explains his face.
15 posted on 08/20/2004 5:31:13 PM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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To: RWR8189

BUMP FOR SUPPORT SWIFTVETS AD 2... http://swift2.he.net/~swift2/sellout.mpg


16 posted on 08/20/2004 5:31:33 PM PDT by freddiedavis
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To: Guillermo
John F. Kerry served in Vietnam.

Yow! Who would'a known?

17 posted on 08/20/2004 5:42:07 PM PDT by Don Carlos (Me cache en los Moros. Ancient Spanish curse. (Hate-speech since Spain's concession to terrorism)).)
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To: Jim_Curtis

>Kerry is a cartoon. He's half Thurston Howell and half that guy ( I think from the same folks that made that time traveler kid and dog cartoon ) spinning a tall tale about his brave exploits.<<


Mr. Peabody!!! He and Sherman, his lawfully adopted boy were honorable sir!

I'll bet you really wanted to say Commander McBragg!

Theme song of course.

This is the World of Commander McBragg
Your hair will curl in the World of McBragg.
He fights monsters galore
And then asks for still more
Or so says the brag of McBragg.

When on the hill the marines plant a flag
They may be led by Commander McBragg.
With a cannon in hand
He can beat any band
Or so says the brag of McBragg.

Fencing and fighting and round table knighting
And slaying of dragons, too.
Shipping and sailing and great harpoon whaling
There's nothing McBragg can't do.
Hunting and trapping and gold miner mapping
And flying to Timbuktu.
Roping and riding and Indian guiding
Commander McBragg comes through.

This is the World of Commander McBragg
Your head will whirl in the World of McBragg.
He can do anything
In his world he's a king
Or so says the brag of McBragg.



DK
Defending the Right and Good Peabody
McBragg was from Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales


18 posted on 08/20/2004 5:44:13 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: RWR8189

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

Yeah, but you can usually fool enough folks enough of the time to get elected president once or twice.


19 posted on 08/20/2004 5:46:14 PM PDT by sitetest (Just ask WJ Clinton.)
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To: RWR8189

Great post.


20 posted on 08/20/2004 5:47:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Impossible' is the favorite word of cowards...nothing is impossible with God...)
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