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 campaigns 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 mates record of attendance at non-public hearings, right? Dont 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 publics-and the medias-gullibility on issues as important as intelligence funding, national security, peoples jobs, the Federal budget, our nations 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 Wendys 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 publics ability to discern reality and mocking of the medias 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 cant fool all the people all the time. Senator Kerrys 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.
No, that's the OTHER Kerrey, the one that the Kerry campaign seemed to get mixed up with their own candidate! (He's the one who was the chairman of the Intelligence committee).
BTW, Bob Kerrey served in Viet Nam too, but he's a "real" war hero! While this Kerrey is still a liberal "whack job," and I deplore what he did on the "9-11 Commission," he lost part of a leg and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in Viet Nam.
Mark
At this late date, is there any 527 group that would take on some wild ass anti-Kerry ideas? I have a couple of off the wall concept that the Good Guys shouldm't/wouldn't touch. I'm looking for a 527 group run by a guy like Carville, but a Carvile who had opted to oppose the forces of filth, corruption and evil.
You know the dems right now are putting together nasty stuff in a 3 to 10 day turn time.
"You know the dems right now are putting together nasty stuff in a 3 to 10 day turn time."
I'll bet a dollar they will try to bring up the DWI thing again with some new twist.
Probably have Ted Kennedy do the docs dump or something equally shameless.
Bump for a copy to my gullible friends ... ;-)
nor will he be able to count on reporters to stand inside his campaign ... instead of outside his campaign ... asking the tough questions
This is fantasy. The MM is never gonna ask him the "tough questions", right down to the end, no matter what they have to cover up or lie about.
They've for some weeks now been painting Hussein as if he's just a poor, old, ill, beleagured man, whittling away his last days gardening and writing lovely poetry. No death camps, no rape rooms, no teaching his pre-teen sons to murder political dissenters in cold blood. Nothing is too low for this Newsertainment cartel.
The toughest question John Fraud Kerry will ever receive from anyone in the big-money mainstream press will likely begin somehting like "If we could be one one-hundredth as wonderful as you...."
bttt
We need more 527 groups. We need several of them and we need them getting the truth out. The rats can direct all of their legal power at one 527 with only the swift boat vets out there.
Why aren't there several vet groups coming out with their own ads against this traitor? It is clear that Kerry is a crackpot traitor and embellisher of his war record.
>>This guy eats like a horse. He must have a hollow leg
Hollow heard.
Oops.. head. Dang fat fingers...
True, but then again look at the way its got the Heinz-Kerry campaign all in a twist. Reminds me of the days of Willard the Stainmaker. The closer to the truth the charges were the more they'd try to destroy the messenger.
If John 'Effin Kerry had to take 1/10th the abuse that Bush has taken he would have had his Howard Dean moment back in April. This is being done with about $200,000 compared to the millions spent by Soros, and on the Michael Moore schlockumentary
This is factually incorrect. Kerry actually missed 78% of the hearings.
:-)
Said Kerry, "I missed 76% of the hearings before I missed 78%."
Save that the pro-log said that Neidermeyer was shot by his won troops. Too bad the same thing did not happen to this sap.
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