| 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
"Zzzzzz." |
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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let's see, "I'm against everything he said before he said it".
"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.
Kerry is speaking tomorrow at the American Legion Convention, he already spoke at the VFW, remember? They turned their backs on him/
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.
He has a house there too? (Along with Boston, Nantucket, Sun Valley and ...?)
Meltdown!!!
"..... too little too late"
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.
John Kerry has a house in Nantucket,
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Sorry, my bad. American Legion.
I was surprised they would let that beast loose too.
should be lots of fun to watch!
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.
These people truly are bottom-feeders, and my apologizes to bottom-feeders everywhere.
Kerry would probably get a better response addressing the French Foreign Legion.
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.
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!
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!
| 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
"Zzzzzz." |
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"Honey, that speech by George Bush got me so excited I can't sleep."