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Kerry Plans Immediate Response to Bush's Speech / Rally in Ohio Set for Thursday Night
AP ^ | 8/31/04 | NEDRA PICKLER, AP

Posted on 08/31/2004 3:47:16 PM PDT by Former Military Chick

NANTUCKET, Mass. (Aug. 31) - Hours after George W. Bush is to accept the Republican Party's nomination for re-election in New York on Thursday night, Democrat John Kerry plans to respond at Ground Zero of the presidential campaign - Ohio.

Kerry is kicking off the general election in the battleground state that Bush won in the last race, as has every other Republican who's ever been elected president. Kerry plans a rally in Springfield, Ohio, just before midnight Thursday evening with his running mate John Edwards and their wives. Then the Democratic nominee plans a two-day bus tour to the Ohio cities of Newark, Akron and Steubenville.

Kerry is dispatching his three partners to Midwest battlegrounds that Democrat Al Gore won narrowly in 2000 - Teresa Heinz Kerry to Iowa, John Edwards to Wisconsin and Elizabeth Edwards to Michigan.

The tours come after Kerry kept a low profile at his family's Nantucket home during most of the Republican National Convention, with one notable exception. Kerry plans interrupt his getaway Wednesday to speak to the American Legion in Nashville, Tenn.

The Kerrys and Edwardses also had bus tours coming out of the Democratic National Convention five weeks ago, and the trip resulted in positive coverage in the local newspapers and television that reach swing voters.

The four states at the start of the upcoming trip have a combined 54 electoral votes and are among the most frequently visited by the presidential campaigns. The biggest target of the four has been Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes and has been visited 13 times by Kerry so far this year.

Although Bush won the state by four percentage points in 2000, he is vulnerable because the state has lost more than 200,000 jobs since he took office.

Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said the message to voters in the general election kickoff will be that there is a fundamental choice in November - ''four more years of policies that benefit the few and catastrophic successes that blame the military for administration miscalculations, or the Kerry-Edwards plan to build an economy that strengthens and expands the middle class.''

Kerry's campaign plans to return to significant advertising in the coming days after a monthlong break. Kerry was mostly dark during August, except for a few small ad buys in six states to respond to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that criticized his military record. Kerry was saving his money to pay for the ads that will fuel his final two-month push. However, the Democratic National Committee's independent expenditure office, which can't legally coordinate with Kerry, filled in for him in August, spending some $37 million on ads promoting him and criticizing Bush.

Kerry will spend Sunday at his family home in Pennsylvania, then return to the campaign trail on Labor Day for a series of ''front porch'' visits. Once again, Kerry, Edwards and their wives will spread out to different swing states, this time in front of homes talking to neighborhood voters.

Kerry spokeswoman Allison Dobson said a high-profile representative of the Kerry campaign will hold one of the visits in every battleground state to promote his agenda. The campaign will pass out copies of the Kerry-Edwards book, ''Our Plan for America,'' which also goes on sale next week to the public for $12.95.

08-31-04 1011EDT

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: acceptancespeech; bushconvention; kerry; pissant; speech
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To: Former Military Chick

let's see, "I'm against everything he said before he said it".


41 posted on 08/31/2004 4:15:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: isthisnickcool

"coming on strong" in Massachusetts is ONE thing....in a National election quite another......he's flailing it seems to me.....a flailing flip flopper.


42 posted on 08/31/2004 4:16:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (VICTORY...........brings peace.)
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To: socal_parrot

Kerry is speaking tomorrow at the American Legion Convention, he already spoke at the VFW, remember? They turned their backs on him/


43 posted on 08/31/2004 4:16:27 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: motzman
Teresa Heinz Kerry to Iowa,

First the VC confirming Kerry's Vietnam story, and now this. The Kerry team is turning it around. Teresa is a good fit for Iowa. I'm surprised the Kerry team hasn't deployed her to the South more. It's in play. Large Black communities tehre to hear her compelling stories about understanding prejudice via her interactions with her family's many servants in Colonial Africa. Her homages to her first husband are effective too.

44 posted on 08/31/2004 4:17:18 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: inkling
Nah.. leave Max chained up to the White House fence - we can keep an eye on him there..
45 posted on 08/31/2004 4:18:02 PM PDT by DaveMSmith (CEO, VRWC: When you think treason, don't think Benedict Arnold - think JOHN 'Buzzard' KERRY!)
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To: Former Military Chick
Kerry will spend Sunday at his family home in Pennsylvania...

He has a house there too? (Along with Boston, Nantucket, Sun Valley and ...?)

46 posted on 08/31/2004 4:18:16 PM PDT by CedarDave (Viet Nam Vet, USN Coastal Div. 13, Cat Lo, XO USCG patrol boat, 1968: No atrocities on my watch!)
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To: Former Military Chick
Kerry plans a rally in Springfield, Ohio, just before midnight Thursday evening...

Meltdown!!!

47 posted on 08/31/2004 4:18:50 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: Former Military Chick

"..... too little too late"


48 posted on 08/31/2004 4:19:54 PM PDT by Cincinna (GREETINGS from the home of the REPUBLICAN CONVENTION)
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To: Former Military Chick
"Me too-ism!"

So much for letting every candidate have his day in the sun.

Good thing is all these photo ops and forced exposure are creating a backlash. The libs I saw the MTV VMA's with (in a bar listening to jazz with the tv sound OFF) were put off by all of the campaigning being done on MTV. They know how dumb the audience is and how little regard they personally hold for Kerry. They may hate President Bush but then again I never heard a punk song about how great Mondale would have been.

49 posted on 08/31/2004 4:20:49 PM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: CedarDave
I heard about that, there's a limerick that goes:

John Kerry has a house in Nantucket,

[CENSORED]

50 posted on 08/31/2004 4:22:18 PM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: sgtbono2002

Sorry, my bad. American Legion.


51 posted on 08/31/2004 4:23:09 PM PDT by socal_parrot
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To: Fresh Wind

I was surprised they would let that beast loose too.
should be lots of fun to watch!


52 posted on 08/31/2004 4:24:27 PM PDT by LuckyHat ("Kerry gave 1971 testimony with a Kennedy accent I didn't hear when I knew him as a boy nor since.")
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To: Former Military Chick

They basically don't want the news cycle the day after the election to be about nothing but Bush and the Republicans... So the big political news of the day won't just be GWB's speech, but also Kerry's response.

Since he couldn't get a bounce from his convention he wants to make sure that Bush doesn't get one free news cycle if possible.... I don't think it will work, but that's likely their thinking.


53 posted on 08/31/2004 4:27:50 PM PDT by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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To: Former Military Chick
Another hokey gimmick, which exemplifies Kerry's need to resort to phoney stunts.
54 posted on 08/31/2004 4:28:15 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@Authentic? What's that?com)
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To: Prime Choice
Prime, another tradition that went down the drain is the peaceful transfer of power. From now on, every presidential election, thanks to Algore in 2000, will be contested, nitpicked, and dragged through the courts by the Democrats.

These people truly are bottom-feeders, and my apologizes to bottom-feeders everywhere.

55 posted on 08/31/2004 4:35:41 PM PDT by No-Compromise Conservative
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To: socal_parrot

Kerry would probably get a better response addressing the French Foreign Legion.


56 posted on 08/31/2004 4:36:06 PM PDT by Argus
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To: HamiltonJay

Thank you for clarifying what might be why he has gone against tradition and making appearances.

I don't think it will work either. I also do not recall Bush going the trail during their convention.

Yes, we had operatives in Boston to counter the speeches and set the record straight.

His selfishness will show, I am sure.


57 posted on 08/31/2004 4:39:27 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: ambrose
Well, I all know is that he has been in Cambodia getting ready. He has been praying to a statue of Budda. Or was it Ho Chi Minh?

Anyway, Kerry is going to "bring it on!". Right now, in Cambodia, he's at his desk snorting Botox. I heard Kerry scream "jew are nobuddie! jew *uck wit me. you *uck with de best!"

Bush is toast! Kerry has a new jengis kahn outfit he is going to wear to the debates. That's it! All over!

58 posted on 08/31/2004 4:46:26 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: ambrose
Well, I all know is that he has been in Cambodia getting ready. He has been praying to a statue of Budda. Or was it Ho Chi Minh?

Anyway, Kerry is going to "bring it on!". Right now, in Cambodia, he's at his desk snorting Botox. I heard Kerry scream "jew are nobuddie! jew *uck wit me. you *uck with de best!"

Bush is toast! Kerry has a new jengis kahn outfit he is going to wear to the debates. That's it! All over!

59 posted on 08/31/2004 4:46:28 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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To: Former Military Chick
Hours after George W. Bush is to accept the Republican Party's nomination for re-election in New York on Thursday night, Democrat John Kerry plans to respond

"Honey, that speech by George Bush got me so excited I can't sleep."

    "Look dear, it's that John Kerry fellow on the TV."
"... and so I say to you tonight, do you know who I am?"

"Zzzzzz."


60 posted on 08/31/2004 4:57:39 PM PDT by Nick Danger (www.swiftvets.com www.wintersoldier.com www.kerrylied.com)
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