Posted on 09/06/2004 7:50:46 AM PDT by crushkerry
We here at crushkerry.com are pretty good at seeing the future (i.e. predicting the "brown book" attacks on the Swifties; and the dissension in the Kerry camp over how to respond to the Swifties). Thus, we can pretty much say with certainty that we have caught on to how the media is going to explain away a possible Kerry loss. (Editor's Update Our buddy Pat Curley of Kerry Haters had similar thoughts to ours prior to our article being published. Great minds think alike)
You see, every 2 years or so, the left concocts conspiracy theories about evil, lying Republicans that lie, cheat and steal simply to win elections. Of course all these are flights of fantasy, and in some cases, tin foil hat conspiracy theories, are pure lies.
In 2000, it was the Florida police putting up roadblocks to keep blacks from voting, thus denying Al Gore is rightful place in the White House (which was since proven false). The most in vogue conspiracy is that Max Cleland lost in 2002 only because he was compared to Saddam Hussein and Osama thus causing the poor rubes (the voters) to elect Saxby Chambliss.
We have read the apoplectic comments from the liberal establishment big shots concerning the highly successful GOP convention. Thus, we can predict their post-mortem spin on why Kerry lost (couldn't have been him after all). You see, this week the liberal establishment has shown their cards on the game plan to explain why it was that, like the simpleton Reagan, the idiot Bush was re-elected.
Transport yourself to the middle of 2005 when, God willing, President Bush will just be starting his second term. It is about this time that the in-depth reviews of the 2004 election will take place. Of course, the liberal opinion makers will have to give an explanation of where, when, and why things went wrong.
Certainly, the Swift Boat Vets will be mentioned as getting the ball rolling. They have already been attacked as liars, Republican shills and members of some secret George W. Bush cult (next week it will be revealed they hate children and kick dogs).
Still, they can be marginalized by the left wing press as kooks. What the liberals really need is to be able to place the blame on the Republican leadership for lying and cheating their way into office. They will need to be able to point to a time when the evil scheming GOP finally succeeded in their evil plot to throw King John over the cliff and explain why it happened.
Well, we're here to tell you the media will say that defining moment was the final 2 days of the GOP Convention. Trust us, the liberals will be using the same hymn book from the 2002 Cleland conspiracy, and just changing the lyrics to fit John Kerry's sad, sad, song.
As you will see from the recent columns below, the cause for John Kerry's defeat will be the false, distorted and hateful attacks by Zell Miller, Dick Cheney, and finally President Bush on John Kerry's "manhood" and "patriotism" during the last 2 days of the GOP convention. To the left, these 2 days will be the equivalent of the anti-Cleland ads and Willie Horton all wrapped into one.
How do we know this? Let's take a look at what the nation's leading, and most widely read liberals has said during the convention and its aftermath First up, the DNC house organs posing as columnists at the New York Times:
Paul Krugman(9/3) : The title of his column "Feel The Hate" pretty much sums this up. He also claims that Republicans hate America and are attacking John Kerry's patriotism because they know that President Bush, "never in his life took a risk or made a sacrifice for his country". The reason people would vote for Bush is that he has unfairly made them fear John Kerry.
Maureen Dowd (9/2): This bitter old romancer of crackheads called Zell Miller, "Cotton Mather behind the cross-like lectern" and lamented that the GOP was using "non-girlie men" speakers to make Kerry look like a hippie 60's protestor, and communicated that they world wouldn't be safe with Kerry in charge.
Frank Rich(9/3): Perhaps the poster boy for "girly-men", Frank Rich had a downright hissy fit this week. He was deeply offended by the fact that "sissy" Bush had the audacity to "castrate" John Kerry, a man who SERVED IN VIETNAM YOU KNOW. Rich also sees what the rest of don't. All this was Karen Hughes' master plan, starting from when she wrote her book.
The leftist intelligentsia at the Washington Post also tagged teamed this week to lay the groundwork for the Kerry "2004 Excuse Tour" (Get your concert shirts now!).
EJ Dionne(9/3): He was deeply hurt by Zell Miller's speech, which he called the "most vicious and demagogic convention speeches in the television age." He laments that in order to win the GOP must leave the country more divided and broken.
Richard Cohen(9/4): He got so mad, he thought of a fight he witnessed in high school. Not participated in, mind you, as we highly doubt this seeming wuss was ever in a fight himself. He got so darn mad--he wanted someone else to fight back. Cohen whined that the GOP convention was "loathsome affair, suffused with lies and anger,", as well as Miller's speech being "as mad an eruption of hate as I have witnessed in politics". Shut up Richard, he just was doing for us what Kerry wouldn't do - highlight his 20 year Senate record. Do you and EJ share the same manicurist or something, where you talked about Miller's speech being the worst thing since the bubonic plague?
Joe KleinNot to be outdone by the Times or the Post, was this ultra-whiny lefty with seemingly perpetual angst. Both on CNN and in Time Klein called the Miller speech "the ugliest I've ever seen at a convention." He even said Kerry had license to lie, given the G.O.P. "assault" on him
In the interests of bandwidth, you can also read the tears flowing from the pages (or in this case computer screens) of:
Andrew Sullivan (9/2): He laments the "hateful rhetoric" of an "angry old man"
Helen Thomas (9/3): She gets angry about the "vicious attacks" and "disgraceful and false accusations" against Kerry
Susan Estrich(9/1) is as mad as hell and and isn't going to take it anymore, even if it means leveling insane charges against the President
John Glenn (9/3) who was obviously in space too long, likened the convention rhetoric to Hitler
Paul Begala (9/2) posited that whoever wrote Miller's speech was a "right wing thug" and that Miller delivered it "like a good Marine"; and finally
Terry McCauliffe (9/3)attacked Miller's "spew of anger"
We think you get the picture. Much like they were not (and still aren't), able to admit that Cleland lost because he put collective bargaining over national security, the left will never be able to think that a Kerry loss was because of Kerry himself. Sure, they will wring their hands about Kerry and his staff not responding well to attacks, and their failure to craft a proper message.
But their still missing the boat. The problem is not with the tactics or the way in which they go about doing things. The problem is with the candidate himself, his 20 year socialistic voting record, his political opportunism, his inability to give a simple clear answer to whether or not he's having a good day, etc. However, to the left, this would mean admitting to themselves their ideas are intellectually and ideologically bankrupt, and not shared by most people. But since they are so much smarter than us, that can't be the case.
So get ready for the "Clelanding" of John Kerry sometime around next year should he lose. Hey, that's fine with us, so long he loses.
I would probably have a panic attack too...my first time out in space...'till somebody calmed me down and my emotions were settled enough to feel in control again...I can forgive a press who smoothes the rough edges of that reality for my adoring fans!
So who told you Canadians it was fixed and.... who is going to win...you see I might place a bet or two and some foreknowledge would come in handy...;)
"One major reason that Kerry will lose is that the Main Scream Media no longer controls the flow of information."
Hillary is working on that.
Here's a long answer to some excellent questions:
It is useful to bear in mind that personality disorders have a strong element of self-deception as well as instrumental deception of others. RE: Kerry's contemporaneous lying in his own letters and journals and I would add, his "home movies", he was essentially accomplishing two things; he was establishing a record to which he could point (and has) years later. People implicitly assume that records from the time somehow have greater legitimacy than say, recollections later on. The ulterior motive was evident--normal people don't do these things.
The other thing he was doing, which in fact was more fundamental, was to rehearse for himself a gratifying self-image which fit with the way he needs to be seen by others. It is irrational and sort of magical--"If I think big I will BE big. (And others will think so too.)
So yes, a high functioning narcissist like Kerry is perfectly capable of deliberately creating a false identity of sorts, to serve his neurotic needs and ambitions.
I hadn't heard about his letters--I guess he's not the first guy to lie to his girlfriend to make himself look good, but in the context, it must have been as effortless for him as telling the truth is for healthy people.
The narcissist is similar to an insecure teenager--his worst fear is to be exposed as being inadequate. The adolescent often entertains fantasies of heroism, valor, supremacy in sports, or love, or what-not, but is petrified of a zit on Saturday night.
For Kerry, these stories, like the "Christmas in Cambodia" story--or the "Wounded Hero" version of himself fishing Rassman out of the drink--they have the quality of adolescent fantasies. Although they were recorded for future political use, they were really "all about him."
Kerry continues to be vulnerable on his postwar record with VVAW and in the Senate, but he feels good about what he did there, and so doesn't have the anxiety of being unmasked and found wanting.
But this is a key:
He does NOT feel good about his Vietnam service.
If he were humble enough to simply live with his record as it actually was, he would be farther ahead; judging from the Swiftees accounts, he in fact had a pretty ordinary four months--but to a narcissist, being seen as "Ordinary" is like a vampire being exposed to the morning sun.
The narcissist cannot tolerate being ordinary. He has to be "special" in some way. Thus, Kerry had to concoct a grandiose and distorted story, so he could deceive himself into believing he is special. But now he has to live with it as it falls apart. The thing he feared the most--"exposure"-- has become his fate.
"The chickens haven't hatched yet."
Exactly.
Look for Bush to "lose momentum" in the coming weeks.
I am shocked at how an awful lot of Freepers are letting themselves get set up by the MSM by gloating about Bush's bounce, the supposed "depression" of the left and how we are going to win 49 states.
The nation is still divided and the MSM is still the loudest cheerleader; and they are not on our side.
Look at Zogby and Rasmussen. Whether you beleive the real numbers or not, they are consistent in what they are doing and the change is not as signficant as Newsweek would have you beleive (its amazing how quickly some Freepers suddenly became Newsweek fans too).
But, alas now we get to see Kerry come "roaring back" like the "comeback kid" he was in 1996. Because the country "is just not sure" about George Bush. The press has already written the story. I give it 10 20 days assuming he lowers his profile. It might take longer if he talks too much.
The only way we are going to win is on the ground. Stay focused.
"Paul Krugman(9/3) : The title of his column "Feel The Hate" pretty much sums this up. He also claims that Republicans hate America and are attacking John Kerry's patriotism because they know that President Bush, "never in his life took a risk or made a sacrifice for his country". The reason people would vote for Bush is that he has unfairly made them fear John Kerry."
Took a risk? Dayem, Kerry wouldn't even risk his Senate seat for a run at the Presidency. How is that for hedging Krugman?
My, my, they're so upset about Zell and the girly-men! LOLOLOLOL!
The wusses on the left have this fairy tale that Cleland lost 3 limbs in heroic action in VN. He lost his limbs after triggering one of his own grenades while on his way to get a beer and has no Purple Heart as a result. He's about as heroic as J F'n K!
Preciate it. too bad Molly Ivins piece wasn't out yet, she does the same thing in her latest.
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