Posted on 08/22/2004 9:09:58 PM PDT by igoramus987
Kerry Showing Signs of Meltdown?
The Kerry campaign closed out last week in full flail. And according to one source close to the campaign, the candidate is really starting to feel the heat. With looming questions about the integrity of his service in Vietnam dominating the narrative of the 2004 campaign, Democrat nominee John Kerry is in full battle mode against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In addition to the highly orchestrated smear campaign against the vets being run out of the Democrat National Committee, the Kerry campaign and the DNC has also produced a blizzard of legal threats toward television stations who are running the Swiftees television commercials, bookstores that carry their best-selling book Unfit for Command and against the Bush campaign and the Swiftees themselves for what the Kerry campaign insist is an illegal, coordinated attack against America’s most liberal Senator.
But for all the legal harassment and public scorn dumped on the Swiftees, it is Kerry himself who is nervous about the outcome of this increasingly nasty dispute. And it’s starting to show behind the scenes.
A source close to the Kerry campaign and the Democrat National Committee told crushkerry.com that John Kerry spent the better part of last week fighting with his political and legal advisors about how best to handle the Swiftees. His key political advisors did not want to confront the controversy head on, as Kerry has, for fear that it would draw further attention to charges of lies, fabrication and war crimes.
“There were several conference calls and a couple of meetings. Everyone was screaming. I would consider it the low point of the campaign,” our source told us. “By taking the Vets on, John Kerry thinks he’s demonstrating bravery. But it’s a horrible mistake, politically.”
Kerry also battled with his lawyers all week, insisting they distribute threatening letters to bookstores. According to our source, the Kerry legal team thought this, too, would be a mistake with a big risk of backfire.
“Look, bookstores aren’t going to stop selling this book because John Kerry wants them to,” our source told us. “From what I understand, John Kerry made the lawyers send these letters out. Kerry ordered it personally! I mean, we just look desperate.”
Our source also told us that several political advisors argued strenuously against threatening the bookstores and television stations, again fearing they would simply draw attention to the charges.
When asked if they expected anything to come out of the Kerry campaign’s complaint to the FEC against the Bush campaign and the Swiftees, our source was not optimistic. “Those complaints are pretty much pro forma. The Bush people have filed dozens of complaints against us and the 527’s.” our source stated.
When asked if they thought the campaign had overreacted and mismanaged the issue, our source said yes.
“The original plan was to let the press handle it [the controversy, on behalf of the Kerry campaign],” our source told us. “But John Kerry has gone off the deep end. He wants to personally discredit these guys. I don’t know if what they’re saying about him is true, but they have touched a big nerve with him. There is a lot of bad blood there.”
That would be too cool!!!
LOL..........we've been steadily posting.You must have just missed those threads,but yes,this does look like a time machine zapped us all back quite a few years. :-)
bttt
Well done. Keep on.
Oh darn! By the time I got to the end of this thread and saw your post it was over.
Oh my word...............ROTFLMSO !
The damage done to the Kerry campaign by the Swift Boat Vets is much worse than the damage done to President Bush by the Mike Moore movie.
This suggests Kerry has a real bad case of cooties.
Actually, the snarler they were talking about it Tad Devine.
"Encountering HEAVY flak, sir! Difficult to keep 'er steady. Do we abort?"
"Negative! It means we're directly over the target zone! BOMBS AWAY!!!"
Isn't that great! Less than half a million dollars and good old fashioned honesty and integrity has shown exactly what Americans are made of in my opinion.
We like, respect and respond to integrity.
The SBV's have all of the above and Americans have responded to that.
Those are things Kerry and Michael Moore are not capable of understanding.
Yeah, I'll bet...he was smoking something...but I bet he didn't inhale............Pipe Dreams, distorts reality. I just wish they would come up with the CIA guy.....
I agree. It does look fishy for an anonymous source to be so candid about what seems to be happening behind the scenes. I would think there'd be a pep rally for folks to keep their mouths shut, close ranks around Kerry, and ride it out while their big dogs work on serious damage control.
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