Kerry put himself on a Swift Boat to nowhere.
Posted on 08/31/2004 11:07:03 AM PDT by george wythe
Things couldn't look better for George W. Bush. Even before the Republican National Convention began, the president had started to register a bounce in the polls—coinciding with the successful Swift boat attacks on John Kerry's character. Bush has accomplished what no one would have dreamed of in July. He has forced Kerry to build his campaign around Vietnam and events that occurred more than 30 years ago, while Bush has deftly wrapped himself in 9-11 and is fighting today's real-time war on terror.
At the Time Warner media gala over the weekend, James Carville blew up at the mention of Kerry's campaign: "They're a perpetual committee listening to aperpetual focus group, and it's got to change," Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post quoted Carville as saying.
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I agree it's self-inflicted, but isn't this absolutely delicious? The DeomnRats have spent the last three years telling everybody how stupid W is. Now they've suddenly credited him with being an evil genius who could somehow insert his brain into innocent, sensitive, and brilliant John Kerry's head and reprogram John's brain so John would base his whole campaign on Vietnam.
My favorite.
Kerry lately reminds me of a loincloth wearing Viet Cong teenager. He has fired his grenade launcher ineffectually, and has been gunned down by a Swiftboat 50 caliber. Now all that is needed is to follow his blood trail and finish him off behind the hooch.
How will we recognize it when it happens?
Hmm, you're probably right about Carville wanting to stay clear of the Kerry mess. But...if TerAYsa sweetened the pot by say, a few million, conceivably Carville might agree to be a 'consultant'. He and Mary have two kids who need a college fund!
Kerry put himself on a Swift Boat to nowhere.
"I was looking for a slow boat to China for Kerry and stumbled on this Blog."
The author of that blog says he is a "US Army Operations Research Analyst". Can members of the military voice their opinions the way he does? Or maybe he's not a military guy...just works for the government?
Just wondering; didn't understand. Thanks for the info, MS
I haven't seen a new picture of Kennedy lately. Jesus!
And why didn't he stress his major accomplishments in his 20 years of public service in the Senate? Because he...
1. voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
2. voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank
3. voted to kill every Aircraft carrier laid down from 1988
4. voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system
5. voted to kill the F-15 strike eagle
6. voted to kill the Block 60 F-16s
7. voted to kill the P-3 Orion upgrade
8. voted to kill the B-1
9. voted to kill the B-2
10. voted to kill the Patriot anti Missile system
11. voted to kill the FA-18
12. voted to kill the B-2
13. voted to kill the F117
14. voted to kill the $87 Billion supplemental appropriation to support our troops in Iraq
15. voted to kill all anti terrorism activities of every agency of the U.S Government and to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%, to cut the funding for the CIA by 80%, and cut the funding for the NSA by 80%. This was a $6 billion intelligence cut – AFTER the first bombing of the World Trade Center
16. But then he voted to increase OUR funding for U.N operations by 800%!
I'd love to see him run on this record.
Apologies (and credit) to FREEPER who posted this about a week ago!
Translation: Our candidate is a LOSER. And it's Bush's fault!!!
Yes. They really did. Just like the media ignored the SBVFT press conference in May. It was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C....and nobody showed up. The only attendees, I think, were from National Review, the Washington Times, a UK newspaper and a couple of FReepers.
All encouraged by the cheerleading corps in the mainstream media -- who were performing their famous
Little did they know...
He has forced Kerry to build his campaign around Vietnam and events that occurred more than 30 years ago...Not at all. This was an unforced error all the way. A bizarre miscalculation.
"Look what you made me do!" [Pout! Sulk!]
Apparently so- they thought the media would be able to use the Wilson Niger Uranium flap as ammo to cover up anything the Swifties could do:
MAY 2, 2004 Sunday : (WILSON : BOOK PUBLICITY APPEARANCE ON MEET THE PRESS) On Sunday he was booked on Meet the Press. -- "The Rise and Decline of Joe Wilson," by Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard, 05/17/2004
MAY 3, 2004 Monday : (WILSON : BOOK PUBLICITY APPEARANCE ON LARRY KING LIVE) On Monday, Larry King Live. -- "The Rise and Decline of Joe Wilson," by Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard, 05/17/2004
MAY 4, 2004 Tuesday : (WILSON : BOOK PUBLICITY APPEARANCE ON THE DAILY SHOW) And on Tuesday he was scheduled for his favorite: comedian Jon Stewart's satirical news program, The Daily Show. Then the book tour would begin, with a trip to California ("my fiefdom," he calls it). After California he'd travel to Seattle ("where of course they love me," he says). And after Seattle he'll come back to Washington via Chicago. It's a packed schedule. Wilson says he is looking forward to it. -- "The Rise and Decline of Joe Wilson," by Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard, 05/17/2004
And for a while the press tried to make it work:
JUNE 27, 2004 (NEW YORK TIMES BURIES THE ARTICLE "INTELLIGENCE BACKS CLAIM IRAQ TRIED TO BUY URANIUM" IN ITS BUSINESS SECTION) Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion, senior European intelligence officials have told the Financial Times.
Intelligence officers learned between 1999 and 2001 that uranium smugglers planned to sell illicitly mined Nigerien uranium ore, or refined ore called yellow cake, to Iran, Libya, China, North Korea and Iraq.
These claims support the assertion made in the British government dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme in September 2002 that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from an African country, confirmed later as Niger. George W. Bush, US president, referred to the issue in his State of the Union address in January 2003.
The claim that the illicit export of uranium was under discussion was widely dismissed when letters referring to the sales - apparently sent by a Nigerien official to a senior official in Saddam Hussein's regime - were proved by the International Atomic Energy Agency to be forgeries. This embarrassed the US and led the administration to reverse its earlier claim.
But European intelligence officials have for the first time confirmed that information provided by human intelligence sources during an operation mounted in Europe and Africa produced sufficient evidence for them to believe that Niger was the centre of a clandestine international trade in uranium....
... According to a senior counter-proliferation official, meetings between Niger officials and would-be buyers from the five countries were held in several European countries, including Italy. Intelligence officers were convinced that the uranium would be smuggled from abandoned mines in Niger, thereby circumventing official export controls. "The sources were trustworthy. There were several sources, and they were reliable sources," an official involved in the European intelligence gathering operation said. ....--- See: "Intelligence backs claim Iraq tried to buy uranium," by Mark Huband, NY Times, June 27, 2004, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165465/posts, http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1087373295002.html
The Left must be feeling pretty silly being "forced" by someone they consider to be a stupid moron from Texas; though, actually, they can go blame Terry McAuliffe for starting the "Bush was AWOL" crap.
hehehehe, I'm laughing in glee.
Hanoi Kerry is in serious trouble, Moveon has been running ads all day on FOX in California. If he loses California he will be the laughingstock of the nation.
Great cartoon but they left off the big rope that should be tied to Kerry's boat's stern. The other end of it is still tied to a tree in Vietnam.
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