Kerry Showing Signs of Meltdown? (Crush Kerry)

Crush Kerry ^ | August 22, 2004

[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.”

[Ohioan from Florida]

It still makes for fun reading!

[BluH2o]

Kerry will implode, the media will carry Kerry (luv it) water only so long then bail out. They'll wait for Hildabeast in 2008 ...

[Vision Thing]

It also makes Kerry look like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. If you don't know the story, the ending is not a happy one for old Ahab.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.

ATTN : ABC CBS CNN FOX NBC
William B. Rood was not actually ON Kerry's boat.

Mommy Heinz!
Help!

Look what the Washington Post said on 8/21/04

"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages. "

Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970

Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer

"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."


Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.

Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.

They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!

Mommy : People can get
MY real book here, right now, online FREE!!
I'm so proud of it!
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War


Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.

Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."


Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.

Mommy : Did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?

"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."



It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)

Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?

[Socratic]

"What about Post #6?"

I think that anyone who ever heard Mr. Limbaugh speak of "willing accomlices" knows what this means.

[Zyke]

How's the free speech in the campaign going?

Why would Kerry want to stop free men in America from protesting against him?

These groups have the right to speak on the right and left.

How about we just cap the amount of money that can be spent on an election for each person running?

With the amount of money these groups are spending and the candidates, it leaves the power to the wealthy. The common/working man can't even compete.

[aft_lizard]

Its not a vanity of his though, seems perfectly legit for him to post it.

[Vision Thing]

Igor's posting history looks okay. I'm not ready to conclude that he/she is a troll.

[Terp]

I hope this article is true but why would a source inside the Kerry campaign say anything to an Internet site that's so obviously anti-Kerry? Inquiring minds would like to know?

[kitkat]

**“The original plan was to let the press handle it [the controversy, on behalf of the Kerry campaign],” our source told us.

Hummmmmmmmmmmm...what does THAT mean?***

Sure sounds like complicity to me.

[Jorge]

“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.”

But Terry McAwful boasted Kerry and his "chest full of medals" could take on anyone!

[tgslTakoma]

The major media attended the Swift Boat Vets press conference in May, but they took a pass on covering the story then. By snarling, "Bring it on!," Kerry has made their job of assisting his campaign (ignoring the story further) very difficult.

Another self-inflicted wound by J. Effin' Kerry, but this time it ain't rice in his arse.

[catgod]

I just checked Amazon and the book is back ordered for 5-7 weeks now. Just yesterday it was a 24 hour delivery. This book is sold out nationwide, its not available anywhere. Very bad new for Kerry, it will just make people want it even more..

[kylaka]

And you've been here 6 weeks. What's your point?

[popparollo]

BRING IT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JOHNNY YOU F'n LIAR!!!

YOU DISHONEST, DISHONORABLE SCUMBAG!!!

I AND THOSE WHO SERVED REBUKE YOUR NO GOOD %$#%^*!!!

WE ARE A REAL MILITARY FAMILY!!!!

[TigersEye]

"Do you know who I am?"

[crushkerry]

Um, actually we do have sources in the Kerry camp, the DNC and in other places. Why would the sources talk to us? Lots of reasons, one being self interest, another being an agenda. Not everyone in big organizations is on the same page. Same w/ the GOP. There are ideological struggles, personality conflicts everywhere.

I think if you read our original article on the "Brown Books" you'll find our sources were right. We broke the story of the NYT running a big page one smear against the SBVT 2 weeks before they did it. Also called the Wash. Post story the day before that.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones then. I ordered mine a few weeks ago and it came yesterday.

[Socratic]

"Captain Ahab"

Very apt. A Presidency is more than just the President; it's his cabinet, staff, party and ultimately the nation. Anyone who gets so self-centered that he forgets this is apt to lose his closest backing.

[concerned about politics]

Some guy being interviewed on Scarborough Country just asked Kerry to release his military records by signing a 180 form! It's about time!