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.)
If these cretins weren't out of their goddamned minds they wouldn't be Democrats in the first place.
" The reason I think they're hurting Kerry is that his campaign mode has become "illogical".
People in a panic are usually illogical.
Every day I say to myself- Didn't anybody vett this guy ?
Didn't anybody in the Democrat party bother to just read some of the interviews Kerry had given over the years ?
They were filled with inconsistencies and there were so many red flags about Kerry- I find it incredible that not one person in the Democrat Party picked up on this.
Or maybe they did ( ahem- Bill and Hillary ) and hoped that the rest of the party would be so lazy,so ignorant or so desperate-they would chose Kerry ,anyway.
I bet there is a lot of finger pointing going on behind the scenes at the DNC- " Whose idea was it anyway to pick this loser ?? "
And then I see the Chappaqua Chesire Cats smiling.
Interesting theory about some new nugget in Unfit For Command.
Every page of my book is underlined and filled with notes in the margin.
I have found that each page is a revelation and uncovers another aspect of the story we didn't previously know about.
I was stunned by the cumulative effect of Kerry's lies, fabrications and fantasies.
"John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I, and many of my comrades in North Vietnam,
in the prison camps,
took torture to avoid saying."
Paul Galanti,7 year POW , Hanoi Hilton