Posted on 08/26/2004 5:45:52 AM PDT by harpu
Bush-Cheney Lawyer Advised Anti-Kerry Vets
or more properly headlined...
Everyone's coordinating!
"A top lawyer in President Bush's reelection campaign acknowledged Tuesday that he has been advising the veterans group seeking to discredit Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry's military record, an admission the Kerry campaign said is evidence the president's campaign is orchestrating a "smear" by the private group.
Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the chief outside counsel to the Bush campaign who also has advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said: "I've done some work for them. . . . The law lets lawyers do that . . . and does not include lawyers among the coordinated political activities" that are prohibited by federal election law.
He said two prominent Democratic lawyers are doing the same thing. He said Robert Bauer, the top legal counsel for the Kerry campaign, also is the attorney for an independent group, America Coming Together, that has been mobilizing voters in support of Kerry. In addition, Ginsberg said, Joseph Sandler is a lawyer for both the Democratic National Committee and for the independent group MoveOn.org, which has run advertisements attacking Bush."
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So far, I have only heard "Fox & Friends" say anything about the hyposcrisy of the Democrats on this subject. Why is it "wrong" for the Republican lawyer and "okay" for the Democrat lawyers? When confronted with that question, John Hurley tried to change the subject, saying "it wasn't about that...blah, blah, blah."
How can it be a smear to tell the truth about HANOI JOHN? A liar is a liar is a liar.
This is part of the Democrats' strategy...Keep complaining about the SwiftVets' ads which aren't even running (the first series) and try to get them ALL removed, including the one that is most damaging -- the one with Kerry speaking in 1971 and accusing his fellow servicemen of "atrocities". They know that they CANNOT dispute his anti-war activities, and that is the most damaging evidence against Kerry.
In the abstract, I find it humorous that a political candidate is asking his opponent to "denounce" an opposing viewpoint.
As long as GWB does not respond to JF'nKs attacks, look for even more outrageous attacks in the future.
In other words...politics as usual! The whole McCain-Feingold thing was ridiculous and look how it complicates matters.
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