Posted on 09/04/2004 9:33:49 AM PDT by harrycarey
A Kitty Surprise? ROGER SIMON COLUMN SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
NEW YORK - - Republican insiders have been huddling in small groups at the Republican Convention this week and talking about what worries them most. It is not John Kerry. It is not the unemployment numbers. It is not Iraq.
It is Kitty Kelley.
Kelley has a new book coming out in a few weeks titled "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” and it is rumored to be explosive.
One source tells me there are “at least five bombshells” contained in it and another source says there is allegedly new material on President Bush’s service in the Air National Guard.
Democrats have long been worried about a Republican “October Surprise” such as the capture of Osama bin Laden. But now some Republicans are worried that Kelley’s book will be the equivalent of an October surprise and harmful to President Bush’s re-election hopes.
Why are GOP operatives taking such a book seriously? After all, some critics have dismissed Kelley’s previous books as the equivalent of tabloid journalism. But in November 2000, the Bush campaign’s internal polling showed that revelations about Bush’s 1976 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol damaged him badly with religious conservatives and some analysts believe it cost him a popular vote victory.
So this time, Bush operatives don’t want any more big surprises, revelations, rumors or gossip to make a media splash just weeks before the election.
Which is why they are so nervous. According to the Associated Press, the Kelley opus - - it is supposed to be around 700 pages long - - is being billed as "the book the Bushes don't want you to read,” it has a first printing of 600,000 and “a virtual guarantee to annoy, if not embarrass, Bush supporters.”
In the past, Kelley has written books about Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the British Royal Family among others and her books have often contained explosive material. Kelley’s facts are sometimes challenged, but her books tend to make a big splash nonetheless.
Kelley’s 1991 book on Nancy Reagan, for example, which contained scandalous accusations, was the subject of a front page story in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd.
“Ms. Kelley has developed a reputation as a giant killer for her sensational books about the rich and famous,” Dowd wrote. “She wrote that Jacqueline Kennedy had shock treatments; that President John F. Kennedy's retarded sister, Rosemary, had a lobotomy, and that Frank Sinatra's mother was a New Jersey abortionist.”
Dowd went on: “Ms. Kelley asserts that Mrs. Reagan will go down in history as the cold and glittering icon for a morally vacuous era. The author says the former First Lady reinvented herself with a tissue of fabrications about her background, age and family, just as her free-spirited mother did before her; that she had her nose fixed and her eyes lifted; that both the Reagans had extramarital affairs, and that Mrs. Reagan had a long-term affair with Frank Sinatra.”
The article quoted Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, as saying that "no friend of Nancy Reagan's is going to read that scummy book."
Perhaps, but plenty of other people did read it and many more read about it. And this, remember, was in an era before 24-hour cable TV and media with an insatiable appetite for news, gossip, rumor, innuendo or whatever they can get.
It may turn out, of course, that Kelley’s new book contains nothing damaging to President Bush.
But with their convention going so well, Republicans have to find something to worry about this week.
"what is INDYMEDIA ????"
Communists dear, nothing but communists.
It reveals the little-known relationship between Laura and Gen. Tommy Franks.
ROTFLMFO!
They went to the same school in Midland, Texas.
This woman is a shrill fraud.
Just a scrimmage in the war against terrorism./s
Just like the Swift Boat Vets for Truth are labeled "Swift Boat Vets for Bush", perhaps we need to start calling Kitty Kelley, "Kitty Kelley for Kerry" or KKK!
Thanks, that clears it up
Two words --- Bahney Fwank.
Oooooo! And we know how much damage that Kelley book and article by Mo hurt the Reagans. ROFL!!! I say "bring it on" Kitty. Every book she's written has been more ridiculous than the next, and the sale of them has diminished as her lies have become more bizarre.
Wow, I'd heard he didn't have a pee pee at all.
I told you that someone would accuse the President of homosexuality. Not to worry; Bush has a counterattack planned. They have to know that this was coming. This is the same woman who said that Sinatra had been boinking Nancy Reagan.
Laura Bush a slut? Babs head witch in a coven?
Jeez, I don't even think the Kerry people will be happy with the backlash from this.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Gee, can't wait not to buy this book. LOL
Dementia can strike suddenly. Thankfully there are now assisted care centers for folks like Kitty.
ellen RATner on Foxnews confirmed that this larry flynt backed book would soon be released, and she was happy that the dims would be fighting back finally. This will be the death of the dim party!
LLS
That's just what Cindy Adams said in her NY Post column, she could be just as unreliable as Kitty..
Actually, this rumor about GWB and former mayor Victor Ashe of Knoxville, TN and now U.S. Ambassador to Poland, being homosexual lovers has been around for a while. They were roommates at Yale, both members of Skull & Bones, supposedly vacationed together for many years, etc. Rumours have swirled around Knoxville for years that ol' Victor is light in the loafers. He's a creepy little man. Type in "Victor Ashe homosexual" or Victor Ashe gay" in any search engine and all kinds of interesting tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories involving GWB pop up.
It reveals Dubya's participation in the sexual/occult Rites of Onan and the Skull and Bones at Yale University.
Kerry was in Skull and Bones too. And what the heck is Rites of Onan? Are they saying Bush spanked the monkey? Wow, stop the presses!
Oh, shoot. My brother David is gay; that doesn't mean I sleep with him. There is nothing to this. If there was, Gore would have used it in 2000. Kerry is a self-righteous bitch, and a kept man, but he is not as mean as Al Gore was.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Holy crap- the guy who's hosting the picture you posted is THE definition of a liberal whackjob...
Onanism is a fancy word for masturbation.
Yes, but Theresa is meaner than Gore.
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