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.
A drunk driving arrest I can believe. This stuff is so outlandish and obviously fabricated that I would be surprised if ANYONE fell for it.
A STUNNING PLAYBOY MODEL has unleashed the opening salvo in a vicious smear campaign against George W. Bush -- claiming she had a torrid 18-month affair with the presidential candidate that ended last June.
Political experts say her sordid tale is just the beginning of a dirty tricks campaign that will be aimed at the front-runner during his quest for the White House. And it raises the question of who put her up to trying to destroy Bush's campaign.
"He's going to be vulnerable all the way up to the election," Dr. Larry Sabato, professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, told The ENQUIRER.
"Dirty tricks will be a staple of the campaign."
Former Watergate conspirator and radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy agreed. "You look for a candidate's vulnerabilities -- and Gov. Bush has made statements like, 'I was young and foolish' that give credibility to a story of sexual promiscuity."
Already the Internet is awash with rumors about Bush's personal life, including allegations of womanizing.
However, the Republican contender is a genuine family man, say insiders. He married his wife Laura in November 1977, and in November 1981, she gave birth to twin girls, who were named for their grandmothers, Jenna and Barbara.
But with less than a year to go to the 2000 election, the first big sexual broadside has been fired at the Bush bandwagon by 35-year-old Tammy Phillips, a partner in a gym in Carrollton, Tex.
As an ENQUIRER team looked into her bombshell claims, we learned that Tammy is a former stripper, who began dancing in clubs when she was only 14. She claims she was introduced to Gov. Bush by her uncle, a prominent Republican, in early December 1997 during a political function at a hotel in Midland, Tex.
"I was wearing a tiny miniskirt -- and it was instant combustion," she told The ENQUIRER.
Tammy alleges that she and Gov. Bush made passionate love that very day before leaving the hotel.
FAST FACT!
George W. Bush and his wife Laura tied the knot after knowing each other only three months.
And her story becomes even more lurid.
The next day, she says, the Texas Governor called her on her cell phone and made a date for a few days later -- asking her to wear the same red panties she'd worn when they first met.
This time their rendezvous took place in the unlikely setting of the men's room at a Best Western motel in Houston, claims the torrid temptress. After it was over, she says, they went their separate ways -- with Gov. Bush allegedly taking her red panties with him.
Six other similarly clandestine liaisons took place before their final one in San Diego last June, asserts Tammy.
She stops short of claiming a great romance with the governor. "It was simply sex," she says. "It was the cheapest relationship you can imagine."
Tammy -- who posed for Playboy lingerie and swimsuit issues between 1989 and 1992 -- told The ENQUIRER she was holding the "smoking gun" proof of the relationship: a handwritten note from Gov. Bush in which he mentions the red panties.
The ENQUIRER repeatedly asked to see the so-called note -- but she couldn't produce it.
Tammy is armed with days, dates and locations where George W. in fact appeared, and where she claims she had sex with him. It gives her story the air of credibility. But our investigation discovered that while her story may have the appearance of truth, it's false -- although Tammy vehemently defends it.
This plot to link George W. to adultery cleverly combines facts that on the surface appear to give it the ring of truth.
For example, the Republican bigwig uncle who, she says, introduced her to Gov. Bush is indeed a prominent 47-year-old Atlanta lobbyist.
But the uncle -- who requests anonymity -- has records that show he was nowhere near Midland, Tex., on the date Tammy gives in December 1997.
Contacted by The ENQUIRER, the lobbyist's younger brother declared, "She's lying if she says he introduced her to anybody."
Not even her own family members know who might have put Tammy up to trying to derail Bush's presidential campaign.
"I don't know if she was put up to it by someone else," said the lobbyist's brother.
But the expert we contacted has a pretty good idea of what's going on. "This is a classic dirty trick," declared Dr. Sabato, whose book "Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics," focuses on political dirty tricks.
"Most allegations like this don't have any truth to them, but what a candidate has to fear is that the people who are lying will appear credible at least for a while."
Tammy now says she's considering giving her story to Hustler magazine, which earlier this year published a special edition exposing sexual scandals of politicians.
When The ENQUIRER confronted her with the findings of our investigation, Tammy quickly became tongue-tied and refused to comment. She also would not discuss who might have put her up to attacking the governor.
Warned G. Gordon Liddy: "George W. can expect more spurious allegations like this before the campaign is over."
-- DAVID WRIGHT
Published on: September 1, 2000
Good heavens, check out post #9 on that thread.
They are evil. Truly evil.
It amazes me, daily, how many walk around, as if a giant hole will be opening in the earths crust any minute, and they will be sucked into the very hell they imagine.
And hey! Don't forget Howard Stern. When he turns his voters loose, we are doomed!
LOL - yeah, I can really picture him doing that. NOT. LOL
The fact is, having a source inside of the family gives the book some real credibility. Kelly would definitely want some of that credibility.
"Boston papers had been sitting "on Kerry's women for years.""
I've seen his future ex come Nov. 3d, and I'd say somebody or something has been sitting on her. Don't know if it was a newspaper.
Robert Welch, Gary Allen, Frank Capell, J. Evetts Haley, you old right wingers: the Left has stolen your thunder!
Is this a joke? Nobody would believe this. It sounds like episodes of a soap opera.
"Walter Jenkins"
That was true too. D. I. told us at the time that LBJ had cancelled Thanksgiving. He'd lost his gobbler.
I think she confused McGreevey with Bush.
tis already ugly.
but it may get violent.
What's the book's title, "PMSF911"?
Here's a little flashback from 1998...althought the ruling came down in 2000:
MOBILE, Ala. - A lawyer aligned with Democrats was convicted yesterday of witness tampering and criminal defamation stemming from allegations that he paid a call girl to accuse a GOP candidate of rape.
Garve Ivey, 48, was found guilty after nearly two days of deliberations. He was acquitted of bribery charges. He and private investigator Wes Chappell were charged in what prosecutors alleged was an unsuccessful scheme to pay former prostitute Melissa Myers Bush to make false claims against Steve Windom and destroy his 1998 campaign for lieutenant governor.
The woman later said her statements were false.
How much you fellas/ladies want to bet that there will be plenty of copies of this book around, in stark contrast to Unfit For Command.
So Barbara Bush is a witch? Then I'm sure she can just wiggle her nose and get rid this trash.
A pure hype story.
If anyone thinks that Karl Rove is unaware and has not thought of ways to counter the attacks, they know nothing about Karl Rove.
These kinds of personal attacks have never worked. The Sally Hemmings story of 1800 did not hurt Jefferson. The bigamy charges against Jackson's wife in 1824 had no effect on the election. Grover Clevelands illegitimate son had no effect on his election either. Just as the Bimbo eruption did not take down Bill Clinton.
What part of these kinds of accusations don't work.. do the Democrats fail to understand. .
Bush materbated? roht row :(
They can't do it without overdoing it. Micheal Moore proved that. Jim McGreevey proved that. Bill Clinton proved that. CNN proved that. MSNBC proved that. The NYTimes proved that. John Kerry's "PT-109 wanna-beism" proved that. All demised or near demised on overdoing. Oh. By "demise" I mean the demise of the public's appetite for whatever they cook up. Just to be clear. Claro?
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