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Kerry campaign in crisis
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Posted on 08/31/2004 8:14:40 PM PDT by Nascardude

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To: Samwise

I clicked, I enjoyed. Thanks.


41 posted on 08/31/2004 9:10:48 PM PDT by pbear8 (Swifties plus POWs = Senator Kerry)
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To: Nascardude
But it will be a different story after Labor Day when the Bush camp puts clips from the letter and footage from the press conference into an ad of their own and spends enough money in those same battleground states to make it hurt.

I doubt that will happen. Bush is going to be forward looking, as is the Bush campaign. OTOH, anybody else is fee to make some hay with the Swiftee's material!

42 posted on 08/31/2004 9:12:46 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Remember_Salamis

That is one funny, yet spot-on list!


43 posted on 08/31/2004 9:14:26 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Just mythoughts

Wasn't that interesting on Sunday when Hill talked nonstop about what she thought on issues, ignoring Kerry. Plus, she's been taking speech lessons. Not a single 'uh, or ah', not one 'ya know' in any of her appearances. If it walks like a duck....quacks like a duck...


44 posted on 08/31/2004 9:20:23 PM PDT by hershey
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To: Remember_Salamis

Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things.


45 posted on 08/31/2004 9:21:15 PM PDT by hershey
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To: hershey

LOL, yes Hillry was showing JFKerry how to be "commander-in-chief, while he was waiting for the wind to blow. The "timing" for her was toooo perfect.


46 posted on 08/31/2004 9:22:49 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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It doesn't matter who is in charge of the campaign. The campaign will continue to be in trouble if Kerry doesn't stand up in front of the press and the cameras and take questions. He is a lying coward. He keeps sending out people to talk for him and his campaign because he doesn't have the courage to do so himself. The people Kerry sends out can't stick to one story, much like himself. The American public is seeing firsthand what kind of a man Kerry really is and they don't like it.


47 posted on 08/31/2004 9:26:37 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: CWOJackson
Well that, and then he was creepy, and to youngsters older than Rip Van Winkle, and oh yeah he was also "tax collector for the welfare state" to the base, in Gingrich's memorable phrase. Better than the slickmeister (I certainly voted for him) but that isn't saying much. Politically a hot commodity, um, no.
48 posted on 08/31/2004 9:29:12 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Nascardude
Kerry was given a warning shot across the bow by the Swiftboatvets, which he not only ignored but ran into head first. What would he do when confronted with a terrorist warning of impending attack?
49 posted on 08/31/2004 9:29:47 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Nascardude

**a shake up by the Kerry camp at this point in the race is tantamount to an admission of crisis.**

Got to love this line!


50 posted on 08/31/2004 9:31:03 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Nascardude

Will John Freakin' Kerry be able to keep Joe Lockhart (the Huntz Hall of politics) awake? He slept while Air Force 1 left with Billy Clintooooooon while in the Soviet Union!


51 posted on 08/31/2004 9:33:04 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Just mythoughts
"Rush has hinted the past two days that "IF" one dug deep into the SwiftVets funding one perhaps could find dots connecting to Clintons."

Now there's an insight of earthshattering proportions.....NOT! Maybe not Swiftboat funding, but one thing is certain: as soon as Edwards was announced as the Veep, we could be certain that the Clintons would be trying, oh so hard, to "help" Kerry. The first sign was the Sandy Berger stuff, and who knows just how much has been going on behind the scenes. A Kerry win without Hillary on the ticket was always Hillary's worst political nightmare.

52 posted on 08/31/2004 9:33:48 PM PDT by Agrarian (The second most important election of the year is the Senate race in South Dakota -- donate to Thune)
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To: hershey

"Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things."

-- Ford will probably pick up Frist's seat if he retires in 2006 as expected, but I don't see more than that. The only thing the RAT base likes about him is his skin color. If the democratic party collapses over the next decade as I expect and a new party emerges (it's happened before in US history), Ford would probably be key in that.

I see Blue Dogs joining up with PaleoCon Buchananites and forming a new party. If you ever read Buchanan's "American Conservative", they take more and more left-ish views all the time. We'll have a Socialist Democratic Party, a Conservative Republican Party, and Centrist Populist Party. The only thing stopping such a crack-up of american politics are social issues. But there's nothing that says they'll never "agree to disagree".


53 posted on 08/31/2004 9:34:54 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis (Freedom is Not Free)
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To: hershey
Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things.

Well, maybe the media will keep quiet about his crooked family.

Why groom Jr. when you have Hillery?

54 posted on 08/31/2004 9:36:31 PM PDT by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: DoughtyOne
That is preposterous. It slams the Swift Boat Vets as if they would do something to help Hillary. These guys are operating on a shoe-string budget and can't get respect even from conservatives. Lordy, Rush, buy a clue.

Uhmm.....Rush has shown much respect to the swifties. Rush has had O'Neill on and has been covering this issue quite a bit. All he is implying is that some of the people giving money to the swifties might be Clintonnista's. I am not buying that myself and I don't think Rush does either. But he isn't saying that the swifies are Clinton operatives.

55 posted on 08/31/2004 9:40:03 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Nascardude

Folks we have to think ahead a bit. Lets look at the race in 2006, what we have to do is encourage the dems that they are smarter than us, they deserve to win, that if they just keep trying harder by doing the same thing they could win.

Because what we all know it is their pride that is kicking their @ss. Every time, all the time. If someone comes along and does what gingrich did, then we will have a worthy apponent. ( well maybe not) But they will be more of a threat.
I guess as long as Bill and Hill are in the picture and use their money draw to bribe their way into playing by their rules they will lose again and again.


56 posted on 08/31/2004 9:42:47 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: hershey
Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things.

They can groom him all they like. As it stands now he is just another well know house democrat. Till he wins a seat higher than congressmen it doesn't matter. The landscape has changed quite a bit since Gore was a Senator. Ford just might have settle for his position as congressman for life.

57 posted on 08/31/2004 9:48:38 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: flashbunny
His prediction was actually 180 degrees from what happened and why: The ad buy put all of kerry's eggs in the vietnam basket, making any attack on his vietnam record that much more powerful.

I don't know. I tend to think it was the book that changed everything. The original press conference was just a bunch of partisan ingrates to the "mainstream" media; anyone can rent a room in the National Press Club, and all sorts of nutjobs do just that every day, in the hopes that a few reporters will be bored enough to stop by and give them a little coverage. But the book was hundreds of pages' worth of detailed charges against Kerry, and it gave the bloggers and conservative media something tangible to coalesce around, until the noise got so loud that the Media Wing of the Democratic Party couldn't ignore it any more.

58 posted on 08/31/2004 9:52:49 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (we use the ¡°ml maximize¡± command in Stata to obtain estimates of each aj , bj, and cm.)
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To: pepperhead

I don't get to watch Rush, so I appreciate the comments. For background, I'm tired of turning on FoxNews and seeing someone dismissing the Swift Boat Vets with off-hand comments that denegrate them. Their service record is certainly no worse than John 'I gotta scratch - decorate me' Kerry.


59 posted on 08/31/2004 9:53:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: Nascardude
Meanwhile Charlie Cook decided it was time to walk back his rather bold prediction from three weeks ago that this was Kerry's race to lose: "It really is pretty amazing how fast the conventional wisdom can change." You don't say? Maybe it shouldn't have been conventional wisdom in the first place.

I think it was on 8/15 Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday declared the Kerry campaign 'damaged'.

60 posted on 08/31/2004 9:59:49 PM PDT by DaveMSmith (CEO, VRWC: When you think treason, don't think Benedict Arnold - think JOHN 'Buzzard' KERRY!)
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