Stay safe !
Posted on 09/08/2004 5:39:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Clintonistas move in for the kill — of Kerry
The Democratic convention failed to give Sen. John Kerry the bounce that he needed and anticipated because, at the end, after Clinton, Obama, and Edwards had oriented the convention to a domestic agenda, he tacked the wrong way and emphasized foreign policy and war to the exclusion of healthcare and the economy.
The Republican convention, by contrast, was carefully aimed at promoting the saliency of President Bush’s anti-terror agenda and emphasizing the dangerous threat under which we all live.
Now comes the third convention: the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This anniversary will rivet national attention on the catastrophe that doomed almost 3,000 Americans to a fiery death, and, by implication, will underscore the need to keep Bush in office to protect us from further mayhem. Even the sports events of this coming weekend will likely all feature memorial tributes to the dead of Sept. 11. Everywhere one turns this Saturday we will be reminded of the grim events of that horrid day.
Kerry, on the other hand, continues to miss the point. By talking about his wartime record — even by rebutting the claims of the Swift boat veterans — he diverts attention from the domestic issues that are his only salvation.Terrorism, after all, is a media event outside of New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Who is going to attack Kansas City?
Every day, Americans must go to the pharmacy to get Mom’s prescription medication and ante up the high copayment or absorb the entire cost if they are without insurance. Every week, workers get an inadequate paycheck or worry about their futures in the face of low cost foreign competition. It is this daily reality, not the media-driven threat of terrorism that Kerry must stress if he wants to get back into this race.
Instead, Kerry has reached out to a set of advisers who do not, really, even support his candidacy. James Carville and Paul Begala have their primary loyalty to the Clintons who, first and last, want Hillary to run for president in 2008. Generally speaking, it is a good idea in politics to hire only advisers who want you to win.
Carville and Begala, if they act in their own self-interest, as they always do, are rooting for Bush. What better place to do so than from within the Kerry headquarters?
If we want any further proof of the Clintons’ intentions in this election, ponder who leaked to the media the now-famous 90-minute sickbed conversation former President Bill Clinton had with the Democratic nominee. Who leaked it to the media?
Not Kerry or his people, who spent the weekend denying that the hiring of Begala and Carville reflected a Clintonian domination of the campaign. The leak came, undoubtedly, from the Clinton people, who wanted to hype the role their former president was playing in the Kerry operation, precisely to cast the senator as weak and dependent on Clinton’s advice.
And let’s remember that neither Carville nor Begala was the operative to whom Clinton himself turned when he needed to win the 1996 election. In 1992, he used them to win the 43 percent of the vote he needed to garner in a three-way race.
Among Democratic loyalists, they are the kings of maximizing the turnout. But for swing voters, their partisan and populist appeals fall flat. Knowing this, one wonders if Clinton has not sent his operatives forth knowing full well that their best and most earnest advice will be bad and will make Kerry’s defeat, and Hillary’s ultimate candidacy, more likely.
If Kerry doesn’t get it, Bush does. He understands that a focus on terrorism and the threats we face are key to his reelection prospects. Beneath the division of Americans into two seemingly equal camps lies a consensus that Bush is the better president for wartime and that Kerry will do better at the peacetime tasks of stimulating the economy, creating jobs, improving healthcare, raising education standards and protecting the environment.
In both of these suppositions, the voters have seen through the rhetoric of each camp and have accurately divined the abilities of each candidate. It now remains only for Bush to prove we are at war — as we are — to vindicate his candidacy.
Well I have to say...the title got my attention! HA!
Clinton sinks Kerry from his hospital bed...
Gives him campaign advice...then leaks the story.....
Bwahahahahahaha
John F Kerry.....Hillary's nag...road hard and put away wet.....
Sorry - maybe years later - now it's TOO LATE !
The only thing that continues to make no sense is that somehow the country feels that Kerry 'would be better at the peacetime issues such as stimulating the economy, creating jobs, healthcare, etc.' Based on WHAT, Dick? What would Kerry do to create improvement in any of these areas? Hell, Bush has done a pretty good job already, given the lousy recession he inherited, and then the significant economic impact caused by 9/11. Why is it some knee jerk automatic that the Democrat is better on these issues? History shows they rarely are.
Stab.... and twist
Yeah, but if this is true, it could backfire on Hillary in four years from now.
......or Oklahoma City for that matter, eh Dick?
If you made this story up, no one would believe it. I have said this all along. All the Clinton's want is for Hillary to run for president in 08. They will do anything to achieve that goal. If Kerry cannot see this he is really dumb.
Who was that operative that helped him win the 1996 election? Didn't Morris resign about half way into the campaign cycle? Who is he speaking of?
Kerry to Clinton: Et tu, Brute????
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm waiting for Dukakus to say he thinks he could help Kerry
Stay safe !
> Yeah, but if this ...
You mean the Clinton sabotage theory (CST)?
> ... is true, it could backfire on Hillary in
> four years from now.
How do you see that playing out?
My guess is that if the CST has any side effects at all,
it will be to fragment the Democrats into their
constituent special interest groups, reducing the
party to 3rd-party status.
This is baloney! Our media is attacking Bush too hard - and we know they idolize the Clintons. So if they didn't want Kerry to win, they wouldn't be using such desparate measures against Bush.
Was there any doubt ever that the Clintoni family would not sink Kerry? And of course, the wanted an easy target, not a "man-o-war" but a simple freighter carrying dead weight...why do you think that Leiberman was sunk with one torpedo early on in the campaign???? He was a risk. The Clintoni family did not want that, in any way, shape or form.
This is comical. It was predicted so early-on that it is food for fools. A testimony to the uselessness of the liberal Dems and thier irrelevance to the future of America.
Keep an eye open at night Kerry -- watch for torpedos in the water!!!!! It will only take one more, and you will meet Davey Jones. An easy bow shot for the S.S. Hillary.
I know a lot of people do feel that way, but I have never been able to understand why.
What does Kerry, or any other liberal RAT, offer to create jobs? Tax increases? More regulation? What?
Who is going to attack Beslan?
someone tell me why almost everyone believes clinton needs kerry to lose in 04 in order for her to run in 08. ty.
Morris confirms everything we all know. What person doesn't know that the Democratic Party is still run by and for the Clintons own benefit. Anyone who believes Carville and Begala are acting in the best interest of the Kerry campaign is full of it. 2008 is going to be fun, especially on the Democratic side. Hillary versus the likes of Howard Dean, Al Gore, Forrest Edwards, etc is going to make for some great entertainment.
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