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Caddell: Dan Rather May Have Cost Kerry the Election (the cracks are starting to appear)
Newsmax.com ^ | Sep 10, 2004 | Newsmax

Posted on 09/10/2004 10:16:17 AM PDT by Hank All-American

Friday, Sept. 10, 2004 12:59 a.m. EDT Caddell: Dan Rather May Have Cost Kerry the Election

Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell said Friday that if documents aired by CBS newsman Dan Rather Wednesday night turn out to be forged as alleged by experts, the presidential race "is over."

"It would be the end of the race," Caddell told Fox News Live. "It would be the end of the race," he repeated.

"[Democratic officials are] so involved in this," the former Carter pollster worried. "They have gotten themselves so involved in this issue, [in] the last 24 hours, that somebody's going to, if they're not authentic, they're going to be blamed for it. It's incredible to me that they've gotten in this." Caddell said he wasn't trying be sensationalize the issue, explaining that instead, "I'm trying to save my party, you know, by telling the truth."

He said that forfeiting the presidential race would be the least of his party's problems if Democrats are tied to any forgery scandal.

"The race is over - and we've got bigger problems than that," he warned.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ang; bush; forgeries; killian
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To: woodb01

From your computer to God's ears.


101 posted on 09/10/2004 11:17:01 AM PDT by rushmom
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To: rlmorel

Suspicious, hell yes! Look at who just joined the Kerry campaign - none other than James "lizard lips" Carvelle. Coincidence? I think not!


102 posted on 09/10/2004 11:17:48 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going and what is with the basket?)
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To: woodb01
Fact is, this is not just going to cost Kerry, this entire fiasco is the undoing of the DemonRat party. Hitlery doesn't have a PRAYER in '08. Even with the likes of Cheney (who I **really** don't care for), the DemonRat party is history.

(snicker)

Wishful thinking on your part. We'll be lucky if the sheeple forget all about this in 3-4 months much less 3-4 weeks (like 9/11); and thats if they aren't brainwashed into believing that this is all the work of the VRWCTM

103 posted on 09/10/2004 11:21:17 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Harley
former loser presidential candidates with Carter, Mondale and Dukakis

I think that carter will be at the looser presidents home with clinton, lbj, etc.

104 posted on 09/10/2004 11:21:34 AM PDT by 11Bush
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To: Old Professer
See this thread.

It has all the links to the Dan Rather Memogate

This thread has the actual documents posted in the initial post.
THE "New" CBS BUSH DOCUMENTS: Let's do some investigating

105 posted on 09/10/2004 11:24:03 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Charter member of the VRWC - and proud of it.)
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To: Little Ray

Going off the cliff won't hurt Wiley Kerryote? These events are not the work of Bush so they can't be placed at his door. They are entirely the work of Kerryote, his minions and the RATmedia destroying itself through rabid hatred.

Bush has repeatedly refused to get into the personal stuff against Kerryote and constantly reminds the nation of the reasons to re-elect him.

Kool-Aid drinking RATS are no more than 35% which is the low point of his support. He will not get much more than that as this and subsequent events will drive almost all moderate, and undecided away from him.


106 posted on 09/10/2004 11:25:16 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: Hank All-American
"The race is over - and we've got bigger problems than that," he warned.

No kidding.

107 posted on 09/10/2004 11:25:37 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: chris1

Fact is folks, NONE of the DemonRats would dare turn on the Media Wing of their own party. They just WOULD NOT attack C - BS or their biggest fan, Danny boy Blather...

This is the media finally being exposed at its LONG HISTORY of manipulation and deceit. They just never thought they'd get caught!!!


108 posted on 09/10/2004 11:30:40 AM PDT by woodb01 (Start a call, writing, fax, and e-mail campaign to discourage CBS advertisers~)
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To: Hank All-American

Pat Cadell is the only truthful dim that I know of...He's always worth listening to.


109 posted on 09/10/2004 11:30:50 AM PDT by meema
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To: Squantos

Thanks, I just caught her report. She did a great job.

My 3 year grandson loves her and Laurie, and I can't remember her name.


110 posted on 09/10/2004 11:32:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Kerry = The Wrong Candidate in the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time (post 9/11)!)
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To: oceanview

Remember the old adage: don't get in the way of the enemy while they're destroying themselves.


111 posted on 09/10/2004 11:33:06 AM PDT by Paraclete
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To: Hank All-American

It kind of comes down to how blatantly the Democrats will lie in order to slime Bush. Normally, there is a line which they will not cross--not because they have principles--but because they realize it will backfire. In this instance, though, they are so desperate because of the Swiftboat Vets, and the fact that Kerry is imploding, that they may have nothing to lose by trying to perpetuate the lie.


112 posted on 09/10/2004 11:34:46 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Grampa Dave

Your grandson loves 'em, huh huh. And we know whose lap he is sitting on to watch them too, don't we? Lol


113 posted on 09/10/2004 11:47:08 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: Cyclone59
Didn't Carville go to over Israel and meddle in their elections in order to get Bebe Netanyahu ousted? I think Carville is a force to be reckoned with and never should be discounted?
114 posted on 09/10/2004 11:50:32 AM PDT by tertiary01 (Kerry: Are you ready to go back to the Senate yet??)
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To: JFC
the democrats, micheal moore, hollywood, john kerry, john edwards, hate, accusations, tereeeeeeeeeza, texans against bush, dixie chicks, musicians aganst bush, all of the above has opened the EYES of americans.

You are right, they have gone overboard on trashing Bush. Americans like moderation, that's why Clinton got away with everything he did. There was just too much that was being bought to light and Americans just shut it out as being way too over the top. (Even though in Clinton's case, most of it was true).

115 posted on 09/10/2004 11:54:50 AM PDT by PLOM...NOT!
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To: Grampa Dave

My nicknames for em is Martha Dhue Me !


116 posted on 09/10/2004 12:04:20 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Actually, he learned that from his Dad, my son. True genetics in action.


117 posted on 09/10/2004 12:12:51 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Kerry = The Wrong Candidate in the Wrong Country at the Wrong Time (post 9/11)!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Exceellent.


118 posted on 09/10/2004 12:14:06 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (My Father was 10x the hero John Fraud Kerry is.)
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To: Hank All-American

Caddell is a decent guy. A Dem, but I always thought his analysis, as opposed to his opinions, was pretty straight.


119 posted on 09/10/2004 12:17:56 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: overwhelmedbylife

what do you mean by "tombstoning DU people for trivial misteps"?

The Capt.


120 posted on 09/10/2004 12:18:31 PM PDT by Capt.YankeeMike (get outta my pocket, outta my car, and outta the schools)
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