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Susan Estrich was in high dudgeon awhile ago on Fox.
She claims the ads are hurting George Bush.

She said that since she used to call Bill Clinton a draft dodger, she is entitled to say the same about George Bush, so she called President Bush, a draft dodger.

Then Estrich said that the ads were obviously coordinated with the WH and RNC-because Karl Rove's lawyer and friends had given money to the SBVFT.
Apparently, there is some law I am unaware of, that prohibits anyone who knows Karl Rove from participating in the election process.

Then she added to her litany of " links," by saying that " how else would the SBVFT have known to run ads in the battleground states ??""
Guess she thinks the identity of the battleground states is a secret.

Then she said this and I am 100 % I heard her correctly,

"Of course the ads are hurting George Bush,which is why John Kerry has filed a complaint with the FEC."
Huh ??

And then she trashed Zell Miller-he used to work for Lester Maddox.. she stopped short of saying he wore a white sheet, but, that's where she was going.

I think the book and ads are hurting Kerry, Big Time.
The truth to Kerry is like a cross to a vampire.

The reason I think they're hurting Kerry is that his campaign mode has become "illogical".

Compare the President's response to F9/11 or the Bush bashing books that were released.

The authors were interviewed, their books advertised on 60 Minutes, the White House said nothing, and the controversary all sort of blew over.

Now with the Swiftvet incident, Kerry could have employed the same tactic...if it wasn't hurting his numbers.

But when they saw it hurting their numbers, instead of just running counter ads (which would have been the right response), the first things....let me repeat that, the FIRST things he did was to call for banning of the book and he filed a FEC complaint against the ads. This gives the book and the ads much more influence than they would have had if he hadn't been protesting so much.

IMHO, these tactics are not a sensible response to an attack ad. They are illogical (sound like Spock, don't I) and emotional responses. They must be having more of an effect than we had realized.

P.S. His reactions yesterday were so "over the top" that I wondered if there might be something in that book that was damaging, that nobody had realized was in there...some little nugget published that not even the Swiftvet guys knew had impact (but that was when I was wearing my tin foil hat and now I've taken it off.)

I have never seen her more vicious than when this broke about 2 weeks ago (just before the book came out) when it was Van O'Dell on Hannity and Commie) and she just ate his liver.

I've never seen her more rude either. What a twat!