Posted on 09/08/2004 10:11:52 AM PDT by TitansAFC
The John F. Kerry for President campaign and Kerry supporters took aim at First Lady Laura Bush today, claiming in a new book by Kitty Kelly that Laura Bush both sold and smoked marijuana during her days at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. This explosive new allegation signals a new strategy by Kerry supporters to target not only President Bush with charges of drug use in his past, but the First Lady as well.
A newly coordinated strategy by the The Kerry camp will begin this week with week-long media appearances by Kitty Kelly (author of "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," which makes these shocking charges) and Kerry Campaign Vice-Chairman and former Democratic Leiutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes. Barnes will charge that he used his influence as Speaker of the Texas House to uncharacteristically get known political opponent and long-time Republican George H.W. Bush's son a job with the Texas National Guard in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.
Another phase of the Kerry strategy involves a relatively new pro-Kerry 527 group called "Texans for Truth" which plans to launch an ad this week in which a lieutenant colonel in the Alabama Air National Guard questions Bush's absence from his National Guard service in Montgomery, Ala. The group says it plans to spend about $100,000 to run the ad.
The ad asks "Was George W. Bush AWOL in Alabama?" and implores: "Tell us whom you served with Mr. President."
This new and well-coordinate Democratic effort to resurrect charges made several times in the past four years signals a U-turn in the Kerry campaign, going back to charges made during the Democratic Convention by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe that President Bush was "AWOL" during his Texas Guard service, an allegedly treasonous act. Criticized by fellow Democrats for not being harsh enough, Kerry supporters have unloaded these allegations this week against First Lady Laura Bush and the President in the hopes of damaging the personal credibility of the First Couple.
Charges of prior drug abuse by Laura and George Bush, as well as allegations of treason against the President, will dominate the Democratic talking-points this week with the intent of showing that the Kerry camp is getting serious about going on the offensive in this campaign.
(I understand she even knew a much younger Marion Barry back then.)
By "she" I mean, of course, Kitty...I think.
You've heard that terrible rumor about Barbara Bush too, then?
And kerry is best friends with a killer!! TED K
Nam Vet
"Oh, yeah?
Well John Kerry wears Sansabelt slacks!"
Mike Reagan (or was it Hannity?) pointed out yesterday that Katie Colon has scheduled THREE days of interviews on the NBC Today Show for Kitty Kelly, but that they ignored O'Neill and the Swift Boat Vets. Says volumes about their bias, doesn't it?
Oh my God, this has gotten out of control. I hope the Bush's sue them all for slander.
My thought is that if he keeps going the way he's going now, he'll lose New York, Massachusetts, and California.
In fact, about the only thing he will carry is the People's Republic of the ("We outta be a state!) District of Columbia....all 3 electoral votes it has to offer!
How about, "I have a record as a public official, and I believe voters will judge me on it. Senator Kerry also has a record of public service, and I hope the voters will judge him on that. I don't see how scandal mongering can make Senator Kerry a better candidate or better president."
no posting from "The Onion" ;-).
I love the smell of Kerry toast in November 3rd morning
Is the source of this information the book by Kitty Kelly?
I agree...I could care less if any of the first lady's smoked pot in college...its what decisions they make now and how they have lived their life after that matter..at least to me.
I cant see this getting any legs...the Kerry Camp has the THERESA FACTOR to worry about and I bet her past (and present) make any dirt on the Bushes look like a church picnic in comparison.
That they are, THAT THEY ARE! Kerry is to stupid to realize this was a HUGE mistake. The plop has really begun to hit the revolving cooling mechanism now!
They can't.
They are public figures.
Sharon Bush also spread rumors and filed a lawsuit stating a little boy was the product of Neil Bush's affair with the mother. She demanded a DNA test and finally got one.
The tests, of course, were false, but who remembers that part? How she could publicly question the paternity of a child is sick.
She's pure Clintonesque in viciousness.
Yeah, she supposedly got so high one time that she damned near joined the marines... uh.. no... er... I guess I'm thinking of another gal... nevermind...
It seems to me it was "her" that was the inspirational push on his relationship with God and finding the new attitude on life....I'm thinking he's said that a few times. Oh, YEAH! This is gonna Major Backfire!
Go Johnny, Go, Go, Go!
Johnny shot his own foot.. <In more ways than one it seems!
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