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.
Going after Laura Bush would be a BIG mistake. She is a sympathetic figure to much of the public and has high favorability ratings. Also, she has not voluntarily made herself a public figure and is therefore much more able than her husband to successfully assert a libel claim.
I demand that the Federal Government put a stop to this publication.
I want to know what Tar-ay-za was smoking when she spoke at the DNC! :-)
These fools should be careful. Who knows what skeletons Thereza has in her closet. Not to mention Hillary and Bill, whichever one of them is running next.
These crooked lying liberals better be carefull they will give the user looser crowd reasons to vote for President Bush instead of against him.
oh.. the DNC has gone and lost the election BIG time now... you don't go after the first lady... most of the people like her allo... you piss them off... it's over.
Bill O stated last night that Kerry was protesting the war while a student in collage.
Really? A WITCH? O M G !!
Welcome to FR. Don't stand near anything metal.
The Kerry campaign has attacked college pot smokers, student deferments, and Vietnam vets. Is there any sizable group from the Sixties that they haven't attacked?
..typical
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That's funny. I thought Bush was Hitler.
"I want to know what Tar-ay-za was smoking when she spoke at the DNC! :-)"
Rolled up $100 bills of a late-great Senator spinning in his grave!
Depends.
If they go after the Grand Dame of the family, they will be in deep doo-doo.
She'll show up in a red hat and a purple dress at some fund-raiser (senior lady thing), and the Democrat Party will watch their sky fall.
That's what I read over the weekend.
And 43 supposedly is having a gay affair at the ranch with a mayor of some city in Tennessee.
Please...I can't even name most of the people who I went through college with -- and this was only 7 years ago!
The President and Laura were swingers and went to wife swapping parties!
This is just so much crap.
Oh, yeah, everyone from SMU recalls 'Laura Lightspeed', the BDOC(Big Dealer On Campus), and her standard greeting - "This is good sh*t, man!".
This is so funny. ;^)
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