Posted on 09/07/2004 8:37:25 PM PDT by Niks
Republicans are meaner than Democrats, many observers believe.
Syndicated pundette Susan Estrich believes it, anyway. That's how "the arrogant little Republican boys who [were] strutting around New York" last week have managed to turn this year's presidential race around, Estrich explains in her September 1 column: Bush's minions have secretly contrived an elaborate "smear campaign" of "lies and half-truths" against a good and noble man, Sen. John Kerry. And Sen. Kerry, being a good and noble man, has turned the other cheek, declining to respond in kind. Nice guys finish last, as it were.
So the nicer guys might nevertheless--just this once--retain at least a fighting chance until the final bell, Ms. Estrich urges independent Democratic organizations immediately to begin spending millions of dollars on nationally broadcast television ads designed to alert the country to the true character of its current political leadership. For instance:
* President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Estrich offers, have "managed to rack up" something like "three, or is it four or five, drunken driving arrests" between them, a record suggesting that both men have "a serious problem with alcoholism."
* Estrich continues: "Is any alcoholic ever cured?" Put another way: "Has America really faced the fact that we have an alcoholic as our president?" And are we really comfortable that such a man has "control of weapons capable of destroying the world at his fingertips"?
* Also, think of "those who served in Vietnam instead of the privileged draft-dodging president, and ended up as names on the wall instead of members of the Air National Guard." Imagine an ad featuring their still-grieving mothers! "It wouldn't be so hard to find them."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
The RATS are losing it. The Kerry ship is sinking like the Titanic. The RNC and the Swift Boat Vets were the iceberg.
She is the dems 'hit hag'.
That the woman who ran Michael Dukakis' campaign into the ground and hasn't done a thing worthwhile since is considered one of the great thinkers of the Democrat party, well, that says a lot.
Has America really faced the fact that we had a rapist as our previous president?
Has America really faced the fact that we had a perjeror as our previous president?
Suzy reminds me of one of those neurotic, chain smoking New York broads who spends $2500.00 a week on a shrink's couch.
She reminds me of a police officer testifying in a DWI case.
Estrich really is a witch....and that's saying it more politely than she deserves.
She'll be sweet as honey through the elections, but you all owe me!
Bounces right off the President, Suzie. He's got character and guts and faith.
Theor panic mode is in overdrive!
She can say anything as long as they keep her repulsive image
and nails on a blackboard voice on TV. She should be able to
do as much for Kerry as she did for Dukakis.
Excuse me for a moment because I can't stop laughing!
How dare this woman believe that all the GOP's doing is running a smear campaign. The entire Democratic platform for this election is a gosh darn smear campaign! "Re-Defeat Bush," "Anyone But Bush," etc.. I've yet to hear ONE positive thing about Edwards and Kerry, except for Kerry's three purple hearts (blah, blah, blah).
There's a hole in Kerry's soul where all the honor goes,
Lot's of people died for nothin' I suppose.
No McCain can't stop the tears,
There's no limit on the years,
Traitors songs never last too long on Rush's radio.
Mmm....
(Eat your heart out John Prine)
And she wants a confessed war criminal to replace him?!?!?!
Suzy, just cant see whats wrong with her canidate, go ahead and find those mothers whos sons died in nam, and you will be very sorry, real people understand whats happening and who John (the flake) Kerry is (the little man who would be king) Oh wait, thats Charles
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