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Veterans continue campaign against Kerry
CNN/News 8 Austin ^ | Aug. 22, 2004 | Jill Dougherty

Posted on 08/22/2004 5:46:29 PM PDT by FairOpinion

Polls show that ad is hurting Kerry, especially among veterans. His campaign is demanding President Bush renounce it.

"The president needs to step to the plate, not through a spokesperson, himself, and say, ‘take down these ads,’” Sen. John Edwards said.

The Bush campaign won’t take the bait. What the public sees from the Kerry campaign is a series of false and flailing attacks, they charge. The president himself has been the target of $63 million in attack ads, they claim, and Bush wants all soft money ads stopped.

"John Kerry's campaign is the only campaign that has questioned anybody's service during the Vietnam War," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said.

But all this sniping, political experts say, hurts Kerry more than Bush.

(Excerpt) Read more at news8austin.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; crybaby; kerry; softmoney; swiftboatveterans
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To: FairOpinion
W is the master of the rope-a-dope.

Has campaign finance turned out to be the biggest rope a dope of all??

Inquiring minds need to know.

21 posted on 08/22/2004 6:00:55 PM PDT by evad (We are free to draw our conclusions as to who's credible.I can't help it if your perception is wrong)
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To: Sue Bob

Wonder if he has his own home videos?


22 posted on 08/22/2004 6:01:05 PM PDT by Jaded ((Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain))
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To: RoseofTexas
Thanks for mentioning it. Here is the link & an excerpt. I don't think this disgusting commentary deserves it's own thread.

Lampley is only projecting his own anti-Bush sentiments into the Olympics.,

He says "his presence would probably not be a welcome sight for those entrusted with the complex security operation already in place here."

In other words, he has no idea.

He also implies as if all or most Iraqi soccer players had spoken out against Bush, which is not true either.

It looks like as a result of someone leaking the news to Drudge (whoever did it, should be fired), Bush is not going, and Powell will represent the US at the closing ceremony.

NBC: BUSH 'NOT WELCOME' SIGHT FOR OLYMPIC SECURITY PLANNERS

23 posted on 08/22/2004 6:01:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: Waco
What is the rule in CFR about halting the campaigning by some 60 days before the election? Will this hamper the switboat boys? Hope not.

It won't. The 527's funded by individual contributions are god to go right up to the election. The corporate-funded and union-funded 527's have restrictions during the last 60 days prior to the election.

24 posted on 08/22/2004 6:02:12 PM PDT by Bob
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To: FairOpinion
["The president needs to step to the plate, not through a spokesperson, himself, and say, ‘take down these ads,’” Sen. John Edwards said.]

Now would be a good time for a colorful mataphor from our vice president. Cheney to Edwards: "Go forth and multiply amongst yourself"

25 posted on 08/22/2004 6:03:10 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Havoc be upon them!)
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To: FairOpinion
"Polls show that ad is hurting Kerry, especially among veterans."

Being one , US Navy, I can understand how the ads effect veterans. I would think regular civilians would begin to question Kerry's truthfulness when they hear the 1968 Christmas in Cambodia story. I won't repeat the whole thing here but want to point out that it has been proven to be completely false. This event has been cited by Kerry biographers as the turning point in his life. It was double seared into his memory and Kerry repeated the story over several decades, before the U.S. Senate and even worked it into a movie review he gave a Boston Newspaper.

It must really suck to realize at his age that the turning point or defining moment in your life turns out to be "false memory"

26 posted on 08/22/2004 6:05:15 PM PDT by lstanle
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Now would be a good time for a colorful mataphor from our vice president. Cheney to Edwards: "Go forth and multiply amongst yourself"

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LOL!! You made my day! :)


27 posted on 08/22/2004 6:05:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: FairOpinion
Do you want to know why John F*ckin's toast? The Bush campaign couldn't be more dead-on in point out the irony that ITS Kerry who is attacking his "band of brothers" for political gain:

"John Kerry's campaign is the only campaign that has questioned anybody's service during the Vietnam War," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said.

This is like a dream come true. Kerry seems to have a self-destructive urge. Let him "bring it on!"

28 posted on 08/22/2004 6:06:12 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: FairOpinion
What a liar instead of dealing with the issues he blames Bush.The democrats have bash Bush for months the is beyond low,I would relentlessly pound Kerry on the senate hearing in 1971`and his senate record. I hope it does not stop!!!!!!!!!!
29 posted on 08/22/2004 6:11:47 PM PDT by patriciamary
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Seems like the money I sent to the swift boat veterans is getting a much bigger bang for the buck than what I gave to the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign.

And you probably won't get a thousand dollars worth of direct mail asking for more.

30 posted on 08/22/2004 6:13:17 PM PDT by Tom Bombadil
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To: FairOpinion

kerry is exhorting W to commit a tyrannical act of censorship because kerry's facing something that doesn't glorify him.
Now we know how *his* mind truly works.
Imagine him in the ultimate seat of power and tell me your blood doesn't run cold.


31 posted on 08/22/2004 6:14:36 PM PDT by Salamander (Is my schadenfreudian slip showing?)
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To: Leo Carpathian
Just fired off another contribution to brave Veterans. May God bless you and thanks for your service and standing up to imposter!!!

I did the same. We at the Free Republic all vent about the state of our country and the importance of this election. Talk is fine, but we all must contribute what we can to help Bush and win the WOT.

32 posted on 08/22/2004 6:16:10 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

I feel like the cavalry's arrived!...:))


33 posted on 08/22/2004 6:16:26 PM PDT by Salamander (Is my schadenfreudian slip showing?)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
John Kerry on Good Morning America, April 26, 2004

" George Bush can't even answer whether or not he even showed up for duty in the National Guard."

I guess George did not have it "seared, seared" into his memory!

34 posted on 08/22/2004 6:18:28 PM PDT by bygolly
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To: FairOpinion
The president himself has been the target of $63 million in attack ads,

And I haven't heard Kerry denouncing them, or taking down those ads.

35 posted on 08/22/2004 6:21:12 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (Kerry, release your records as GW did. Prove you were in Cambodia under Nixon in 1968)
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To: Bob

What about organizations like the NRA and the NFIB?


36 posted on 08/22/2004 6:22:22 PM PDT by tubebender (If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

"Seems like the money I sent to the swift boat veterans is getting a much bigger bang for the buck than what I gave to the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign."

Government spending vs. private spending? ;-)


37 posted on 08/22/2004 6:23:06 PM PDT by vigilo
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To: DuncanWaring
What happened to "Bring it on"?

Maybe this was the wrong it. hehehehehehehehe

38 posted on 08/22/2004 6:26:57 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Victoria Delsoul
And I haven't heard Kerry denouncing them, or taking down those ads.

That's because Kerry was for the 527 ads before he was against them.

39 posted on 08/22/2004 6:27:41 PM PDT by Aunt Polgara
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
I think 60 days before the election, you're only allowed to give political opinions on Hardball with Chris Matthews, hold rock concerts to defeat Bush and release Fahrenheit 911 on DVD.

John McCain would agree.

40 posted on 08/22/2004 6:29:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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