Posted on 09/03/2004 10:49:46 AM PDT by WoodstockCat
My Democratic friends are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it any more.
They are worried, having watched as another August smear campaign, full of lies and half-truths, takes its toll in the polls.
They are frustrated, mostly at the Kerry campaign, for naively believing that just because all the newspapers and news organizations that investigated the charges of the Swift Boat assassins found them to be full of lies and half-truths, they wouldn't take their toll. The word on the street is that Kerry himself was ready to fire back the day the story broke, but that his campaign, believing the charges would blow over if they ignored them, counseled restraint.
But most of all, activists Democrats are angry. As one who lived through an August like this, 16 years ago -- replete with rumors that were lies, which the Bush campaign claimed they had nothing to do with and later admitted they had planted -- I'm angry, too. I've been to this movie. I know how it works. Lies move numbers.
Remember the one about Dukakis suffering from depression after he lost the governorship? (Dukakis not crazy, more at 11.) We lost six points over that lie, planted by George W.'s close friend and colleague in the 1988 campaign, Lee Atwater. Or how about the one about Kitty Dukakis burning a flag at an antiwar demonstration, another out-and-out lie, which the Bush campaign denied having anything to do with, except that it turned out to have come from a United States senator via the Republican National Committee? Lee Atwater later apologized to me for that, too, on his deathbed. Did I mention that Lee's wife is connected to the woman running the Swift Boat campaign?
Never again, we said then.
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Do I read this correctly? Is this an admission that Kerry's service is full of half-truths?
Hey Susan, it's 2004. Nobody cares how your loser candidate self destructed 16 years ago.
For once, I'd like Susan Estrich, or any other pathetic Democrat hack, to tell the nation exactly what lies and half-truths have been hurled at their candidate. I assume she's talking about the Swift Boat Vets' ads. Well, we all know that Kerry can clear up everything by signing a releasae of his military record. He has refused to. Any erosion he's experiencing by these charges, which for all we know are actually TRUE, is his own danged fault.
Why is it ok for them to air those Moveon.org ads, and Farenheit 911, and not ok for the swift boats? These people are just insufferable. But, I know I'm being Captain Obvious.
By the way, I need to contribute, I almost forgot.
Swift Boat assassins? Didn't she mean Baby Killers, Rapists and War Criminals? Come on, Susan, catch up with your candidate.
ohh we can be sure that the DNC venom will really start to flow now. They will be parading out all the liberal low lifes they can like estrogen, serpent man carville,etc. I expect to hear screaming and hysteria for the next six weeks , of course with the blessing and backing of cnn, abc, nbc etc.
Dukakis was loser who never would have won. But there's also no question at all that Lee Atwater's dirty tricks and lies helped push him. Thats just history, straight from the mouth of Atwater.
She was obviously traumatized by the beating her candidate took in '88. Like Kerry, that loss is seared -- seared! -- into her memory like a Christmas in Cambodia. Like Gore, her loss has caused her to lose touch with reality. I pity her, but there are public mental health programs to help those who are so afflicted.
Reads like she's been drinking same koolade that Kerry had all nite, last nite, b4 going on TV......
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt
You are incorrect.
Truth moves numbers. Lie are easily and quickly dispelled. If the Swift Vet charges are lies, then Kerry can dispel them by releasing his military records. And even if the charges are not refuted exactly, the act of releasing the records indicates that he has nothing to hide, just like GWB did.
It is time for O'Neill to sue her and produce his discovery. I have a feeling he is ready for this witch.
"The word on the street is that Kerry himself was ready to fire back the day the story broke, but that his campaign, believing the charges would blow over if they ignored them, counseled restraint. "
Show real leadership dosen't it ?
Dems might just ask themselves who would be Kerry's advisors if he were to get elected... THEY are the ones who would be deciding how the country runs...
I am wondering if they are going to pull out the bogus abortion claim.
And a 25 year old DUI citation released four days before the election doesn't apply here?
Still find it hard to believe the libs can't see that it's the Swifties story and long list of facts that is getting to sKerry. Why they don't insist on sKerry releasing his records and then do a major press briefing? If sKerry has nothing to hide, as he says, it would blow the whole race wide open again. There is ONLY one reason sKerry won't ever do this. It would expose he's an absolute fraud. The Swiftboat Vets have seen the real John sKerry and have told the truth.
I guess this means we'll be treated to more tales of the Air National Guard. (Yawn)
What??!! Estrogen showed up at Atwater's deathbed? What did she do, slip past security? I can see it now . . . Estrogen creeping into Atwater's room, grabbing him by the you-know-what, squeezing and twisting viciously while screaming, "APOLOGIZE, YOU SOB! APOLOGIZE!"
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