Posted on 09/01/2004 11:32:44 AM PDT by ambrose
The Kerry campaign is asleep again
Senator Kerry? This is your September wake-up call
By Joe Trippi
Updated: 12:47 p.m. ET Sept. 1, 2004
NEW YORK - Here at the Republican National Convention, you can tell with each passing day just how formidable, disciplined and unabashedly deceptive the Bush campaign will be as it wages political war with John Kerry.
The problem is, as the month of August comes to an end, an old familiar Kerry campaign I’ve seen before has emerged.
As Howard Dean’s campaign manager, I saw a front-running Kerry campaign literally fall asleep in the early months of 2003 because they knew they had the nomination won. Then our little ragtag Dean campaign gathered steam while the Kerry campaign spent nine months walking in its sleep. By the end of the long summer of 2003, the Kerry campaign’s slumber was so pronounced that many thought it dead.
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He's dead Jim.
Hey Trippi,
It's the candidate, stupid!
Asleep? that was the game plan.
Ephemeral statements and unspecified policies, banking on the "not Bush" angle would trump questioning over his policies. Add "Rambeaux" imagery and accuse Bush of arrogance, etc.
It isn't a matter of "image" creation or "reinvention"...or 'presentation' or any other media or Madison Ave social psych babble...
It is a matter of John F Kerry's lack of character and 'Fitness for Command"
The American people have had a glimpse into the 'real' John Kerry' and found him to be severely deficient in the 'character' dept....and NO amount of "magic' perfume will make this
pig smell any better to the American public...
The democrats chose poorly....(unless of course you are a Hitlery fan club member)
imo
Visit my John F. Kerry Timeline.
Of course, it's part of Hillary's scheme.
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But anyway........The Kerry sleep experiment has been in a coma from the beginning. What's happened now is that the Bush/Cheney campaign has woken up, had a few cups of coffee and is loaded for bear.
Did someone say "sleep walk"?
Yeah but Joe---this time "THE SCREAM" is not available to awaken the dead.
Besides--Kerry is already "mummified".
At some point, some genius on Kerry's staff is going to have a light bulb go on: "Uh, maybe Steve Gardner was right. Kerry is a bad leader."
Yes, but as the media keeps telling us, he's a phenomenal debater and the best closer in politics, so what'cha worried about, Joe?
And there can't be another Mr. Rassmann surprize as there was before the Iowa primary, that card has been played, and was only good for one turn.
Speaking of Rassman, he's the "Where's the beef" of 2004, the handy symbol that gave the nomination to the weak candidate but couldn't help in the general. Combine that with the Swift ads serving as the Willie Horton moment of this campaign, and this year is starting to feel like the 1980s all over again.
Hey, the rats are deserting the sinking ship. Ketchupman has hired another clintoonian to help direct his campaign. Ketchupman, a Vietnam-era traitor, and clintoon, a Vietnam-era draft dodger--an likely duo.
Since Joe Trippi was not actually IN John Kerry's campaign, he is not qualified to have an opinion about it.
Anyway, 2003 was such a long time ago. Can't America just MoveON?
He's dead Jim.
You grab his phaser, I'll get his wallet...
It would be more than the Republicans could stand. Please. Noooooooooooo....
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Kerry does seem to be laying low. My guess is that he will downplay any vietnam issues until the George Butler documentary about him comes out and he charges into the breach. I wouldn't underestimate the significance of the film. One of Butler's previous films put Schwarzenegger on the map. Butler is highly skilled.
No!
The only thing Kerry pulled of was being the next one standing in line as the Dean campaign imploded.
Bush will not be so obliging.
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