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Kerry Camp Smells Swift Bot Backlash (V A N I T Y)

Posted on 08/27/2004 3:21:53 PM PDT by American100

Listening to Fox News on my XM radio on the way home, I heard Carl Cameron roll out some poll numbers saying that most people believe Bush is behind the Swift Boat ads. The Kerry Campaign seems to think a backlash is looming? Can anyone bring my up to speed on this story?


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1 posted on 08/27/2004 3:21:53 PM PDT by American100
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To: American100
Transparent nonsense.

"The backlash against these ads will help us. We demand you take them off the air."

2 posted on 08/27/2004 3:24:33 PM PDT by dighton
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To: American100
Sure, there is no backlash. Kerry is losing support in all categories of the polls. The Swiftees won't be shut up by him and his fellow fascists nor will they be shut up by McCain and Bush prattling on about further abridgement of the First Amendment.

There you go.

3 posted on 08/27/2004 3:24:44 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Donate to the Swifties, once again serving the nation selflessly)
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To: American100
The Kerry Campaign seems to think a backlash is looming?

Hope springs eternal.

4 posted on 08/27/2004 3:24:57 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: American100

Fox has Wallace replacing Hume today. I turned it off as soon as I saw him. Is Fox trying to become an echo rather than a choice?


5 posted on 08/27/2004 3:24:57 PM PDT by JLS
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To: American100
I can't bring you up to date on the story.

But my $.02 says it does not matter that people think Bush is responsible, as long as they perceive it to be true.

If the sheeple think it's lie, and Bush pushed the lie, that could be a problem.

So far the voter polls sure seem to be saying voters think the swift vets are telling the truth.
6 posted on 08/27/2004 3:25:02 PM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: American100

Most people will believe anything that is drummed into them 24 hours a day by the mainstream media. But the very same polls that suggest what the Kerry campaign is saying, also say that Kerry lost all the false crediblity he built for himself with his Vietnam lies.


7 posted on 08/27/2004 3:25:39 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: American100

Well, if all you have left is hoping for a backlash, then that's what you gotta go with.


8 posted on 08/27/2004 3:28:21 PM PDT by mlbford2 ("sycophantic kerry koolaid sucker" -- S. Hannity)
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To: American100

HEADLINE: Bush Overtakes Kerry in Latest L.A. Times Poll
LA TIMES ^ | 8/25/04 | Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 08/25/2004 9:00:50 PM MDT by Blood of Tyrants

For the first time this year in a Times survey, Bush led Kerry in the presidential race, drawing 49 percent among registered voters, compared to 46 percent for the Democrat. In a Times Poll just before the Democratic convention last month, Kerry
held a 2 percentage point advantage over Bush.



I don't know how to post the link, sorry.


9 posted on 08/27/2004 3:29:33 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: JLS

Brit is always off on Fridays. Watch the Grapevine segment, that will be telling.


10 posted on 08/27/2004 3:29:46 PM PDT by pbear8 (Swifties plus POWs = Senator Kerry)
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To: American100

I don't see how when they are telling the truth.


11 posted on 08/27/2004 3:29:50 PM PDT by demlosers
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They are trying to CREATE a backlash, more lies and deceptions, changing the subject.... "IF" JFKerry wants to set the record straight then he will sign the release form.


12 posted on 08/27/2004 3:30:23 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: American100
Even if there is a backlash, the fact that the Swiftees will continue with their assault against JFK will end up destroying any credibility JFK has left. And given that JFK is emotionally unstable, he will have a public meltdown vastly superior to Howlin Maddog's.
14 posted on 08/27/2004 3:33:08 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (I volunteer to instruct JFK on the meaning of a purple heart!!)
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To: American100

All these polling statistics showed was that so far, the press has succeeded in hiding the web of connections between the Kerry Campaign, the DNC and the 527s helping Kerry. Once these slimy weasels are exposed as the hypocrites they are, the public will be even more harsh against Kerry.


15 posted on 08/27/2004 3:34:41 PM PDT by TommyDale
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To: dighton

It's easy to believe the president is behind the Swifties because that's what the leftists are saying and the media isn't telling us that the DNC is behind the MoveOn.org ads.

The DNC's attorney, Sadler, works for MoveOn.org and the connections between the DNC and 527's is unmistakable.

Read on and educate yourself about this matter:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199361/posts

http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010183.html

Read next to last paragraph:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198638/posts


16 posted on 08/27/2004 3:35:45 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: American100

The only looming backlash is aimed at Kerry.


17 posted on 08/27/2004 3:35:45 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Time's fun when you're having flies. -- Kermit the Frog)
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To: American100
Apparently Kerry is assuming that Bush will be harmed by the SBVT campaign. From what I've seen, Bush may have been harmed slightly initially, but now it looks like the SBVT have helped him turn the corner. Momentum now appears to be with Bush, and Kerry's high water mark appears to have been his convention.

Kerry's position is deeply rooted in his arrogance. You just knew, as he continuously praised himself for his war record, that he was innoculating himself against criticism of his anti-war record and Senate record which is notoriously weak (dare I say damn near criminally negligent?) on defense and intelligence. He was setting it up that to even question his record in these two areas, let alone his war record, would be politically incorrect in the extreme. You can see this in his current attitude.

Bush is vulnerable to accusations of political incorrectness--perhaps his greatest weakness as our leader. Kerry's problem is that, as a far left liberal icon, he believes in political correctness as a religion, and this is reinforced by his personal arrogance (cutting into lines, condescending "Don't you know who I am?"s, constant put-downs of the little guys). He bigger problem is that the SBVT don't give a damn about political correctness.

19 posted on 08/27/2004 3:37:10 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Kerry lied while good men died.)
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To: pbear8

It was not Hume being off that caused me to turn of my television. It was the selection of Chris "Smear the Swift Boat Vets" Wallace as a replacement choice. I wouuld rather have Juan Williams who at least does not pretend objectivity.


20 posted on 08/27/2004 3:38:20 PM PDT by JLS
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