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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Susan Estrich could use a facelift but she really needs a brainlift.
The Navy is investigating Kerry's medals and citations!!!
Kerry was for showing restraint, before he was against it
For once, I'd like Susan Estrich to clear her damned throat!
More like the Democrats aren't MAN enough.
The slime machine is greaing up. Kerry just hired a new slime merchant . . . I can't remember his name (please help, someone! I think it starts with an "S") . . . who was notorious in previous campaigns. Dukakis? Gore? If anyone knows his name, let me know.
Four words: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
One more: Geobbels
Lies move numbers just as much and sometimes more and are Many times very difficult to refute.
>>Lee Atwater later apologized to me for that, too, on his deathbed.<<
This idiot is totally dilusional. This isn't the first time I've heard nonsense about Lee Atwater apologizing. Later I heard it was impossible.
If this is an indication of Kerry's decisionmakers are thinking and feeling, he will probably hurt as much as help himself. One, Estrich's tone is extremely hysterical. Two, why would she telegraph the charges in advance? One suspects that this is simply psychological warfare, and not necessarily effective psychological warfare. Finally, there are only two charges mentioned that could possibly transform this campaign. The first, the possibility that Bush paid for or encouraged an abortion, can actually be turned around if it's true -- allowing Bush the rare opportunity to highlight his conversion to Christianity
AND the principled nature of his pro-life stance. The second, the claim that Cheney has, or recently had, a drinking problem, is simply not credible. He has had serious heart trouble for years. Presumably he is not allowed to drink heavily. Cheney is far too disciplined and responsible to violate doctors' orders of this type.
I hope that Estrich's column is publicized far and wide in all media. It makes the Democrats look terrible.
One final thought occurs to me: Throwing a whole set of charges, whether wholly false or partly true, at a candidate, let alone two candidates, is counterproductive because it's too hard for voters to sort out and because it looks like the desperate piling on that it is.
People will see right through it.
LOL...It would help if she'd stop smoking.
It has been interesting to watch wide mouth frog unravel. She has become increasingly more rabid as her favorite sinks into the mess he has created for himself.
How? In that they are both Republicans, probably. Well, I too am a Republican, so I too am connected to that 'woman running the Swift Boat campaign', whoever she is.
It's that VRWC commin' to getcha, Susan!
THE PUBLIC SHOULD DEMAND A REASON FOR HIS ODD BEHAVIOR LAST NIGHT. YOU DO NOT ACT LIKE THAT IF YOU ARE JUST TIRED.INSANE COMES TO MIND.
That is what I believe also. He is Gods man and I believe
"no weapon formed against him will prosper" Isa.54:17
Doesn't exist
One more: Geobbels
Lies move numbers just as much and sometimes more and are Many times very difficult to refute.
Only works with control or complicity of the media. If you were arguing for the democRATs you might have a point on complicity. otherwise, it doesn't work.
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