Lando 
Posted on 09/14/2004 9:46:33 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
It has come down to trolling for gossip and innuendo for the Democrats and John Kerry. What else do they have? The Democrats have found themselves stuck with a candidate who not only stands on both sides of any issue but he has invented an octagon of political policy. Kerry seems too have taken Bill Clinton’s political ''triangulation'' strategy and multiplied it a few too many times.
One can’t blame the Democrats for being a little frantic at this point in time. It’s tough when your candidate is a flip-flopper with the personality of a cadaver. Oh, how the Democrats must be longing for the good old days when they only had to worry about Howard Dean saying something bizarre.
It’s reported that Kerry was angry when the private call between him and Clinton was made public. But, if the call was private, between only Kerry and Clinton and Kerry didn’t tell the media, whom does that leave? Once again basking in the limelight, Bill couldn’t resist calling people like Larry King from his hospital bed and sucking up air time from John Kerry.
In theory, when John Kerry received the nomination from his party, he should have become the de facto leader of the party, but that didn’t happen. Kerry has been told to sit down, shut up, and only speak when instructed to do so. The ''Band of Brothers''--gone. The constant talk of his valiant service in Viet Nam--silenced. Has anyone seen Max Cleland since the Crawford debacle? Absolutely no more pictures of the millionaire candidate windsurfing are to be seen. The party boss is in control now and it isn’t John Kerry.
The Clinton hit-men have arrived. James Carville and Paul Begala have been dispatched to the beleaguered Kerry camp to carry out what they do best--character assassination. There is little doubt that they arrived with detailed instructions from their boss, Bill Clinton, on what they are to do and how to do it. However, one has to wonder whose character Carville and Begala are there to destroy.
There is an all-out, full-court media blitz against George Bush in the hope of closing the gap that seems to grow daily between Bush and Kerry. Gossip columnist and author, Kitty Kelley, has put out her ''tell-all'' book about the life and times of President Bush. However, with a total lack of credible sources, most legitimate news outlets are staying away from Miss Kitty’s flight of fancy. This explains why Katie Couric will have Kelley on as a guest three days running. NBC has apparently given up any charade of being unbiased. Kitty Kelley is a headliner with her new book, where she apparently details how George Bush beats his wife, and in a previous book describes how Nancy Reagan and George Burns used to smoked pot together. More than a grain of salt is required when reading anything written by Kitty Kelley.
CBS and ''60 Minutes'' have never hidden the fact that they are wildly liberal. Years ago, ''60 Minutes'' saved the sinking and scandal-ridden campaign of Bill Clinton when Bill and Hill perpetrated their first great lie on the American people. Remember Bill and Hillary holding hands like school kids as Bill admitted he had been a bad boy? Were you watching when he promised never to do it again?
Flash forward to Dan Rather and the most recent and flagrant assault on Bush. CBS executives will not release the original copies nor reveal how they got them. Of course, with the originals, it could be shown instantly if these documents are forged. There is also a small matter of Mr. Barnes, who claims that he got Bush into the guard, being a co-chair of Kerry’s campaign. It’s unbelievable that a major network could even think about using this kind of “evidence” as creditable. Nearly all ''witnesses'' for CBS has come forward to say that they were used and deceived by CBS and have recanted their statements. Two FBI experts hired by USA Today have both stated that the documents are ''most likely forgeries'' but want to see the originals that CBS will not provide. A man long retired supposedly was complaining about being forced to ''sugar-coat'' Bush’s record. Has CBS completely forsaken good journalism to do the DNC’s bidding?
Now, rumor has it that the Democrat National Committee will continue to pound on this dead issue which was resolved years ago, at least in the voter’s minds, by saying Bush lied about being in the Air Force Reserves as well. Before Democrats could even utter the words, documents surfaced clearly showing that for three months, Bush indeed was in the Air Force Reserves for training.
All of this makes one wonder why the Democrats are going down this path. It seems like madness to continue to call the president a liar about his service when there are a lot of questions about the authenticity of the CBS documents and Bush received an honorable discharge. It is sheer hypocrisy for Democrats to continue to demand that Bush release all his documents when they even have his dental records while Kerry refuses to release his own records, also under scrutiny by the Navy for possible tampering. It is insane for CBS to continue to stand by extremely questionable documents by simply saying, ''We stand by them.'' If CBS is hiding the fact that they got these ''documents'' from the DNC that would explain why they only released tenth generation, blurred copies. A wild-eyed Terry McAuliffe was on the airwaves almost immediately blaming Karl Rove for the documents, not even continuing the scam that these documents were genuine. It was almost as though he had his battle plan in place.
There can be only one explanation for the continued bashing of Bush’s military record that few people care about: someone wants John Kerry to lose. What person has designs on the White House? Who would benefit from John Kerry losing the election this November? The junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, certainly would. While Kerry uses such brilliant campaign slogans as ''W is for wrong,'' prominent members of the Democrat Party are wrestling microphones away from the media to label President Bush a liar and using bogus documents as their proof. Ted Kennedy rants, Al Gore raves, and Bill and Hillary just smile as their man Terry, head of the DNC, continues to create one political disaster after another for the hapless John Kerry. Clinton’s men are firmly in control of the Kerry campaign and seem to be driving it off a very high cliff.
If the Republicans learned nothing from the years of Bill Clinton, it was this: If you are perceived as ''piling on'' a president, the American people get angry. That is exactly what Democrats are doing now to President Bush and they can’t even do it honestly. They have to use trumped up documents. Democrats can’t fight Bush on anything current because John Kerry has changed his stand on virtually every major topic so many times that no one believes him anymore. Dirt is all they have left.
It seems that the question isn’t about Bush’s guard service at all. The question should be: Is Kerry committing political suicide out of ignorance or is it homicide at the hands of his own party?
About the Writer: Barbara is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com.
Lando
Dear Leftists/MSM:
What if there IS NO dirt? What if there's just NO DIRT?
Kerry has positioned himself such that he can ONLY throw dirt. His party is more divided than the country. Any position he takes is going to upset at least half of his party, so throwing dirt is all this scumbag has left.
Well, since there is no dirt, they're making things up. For example: forged documents and kitty's new book.
How about changing that to a picture of Kerry`s head coming out?
Well, the clarity is unusual here, but bingo, its dead on.
They're desperate because of the swiftvets. Those ads are like a corrosive acid, eating away at the framework of the Kerry campaign.
It almost seems Bill and Hillary are the best friends Republicans ever had. They handed us the Congress, then the Presidency, soon the Supreme Court and even stronger control of the Congress. Are they that inept or are they plants?
You'd think they would concentrate on things like the median family income getting smaller, or the huge increases in health insurance costs, or the almost 18pct increase in senior medicare premiums, or Osama still at-large, or privatization of social security, or overstating the 2004 deficit, or no end-plan for Iraq, or 'permanent' tax cuts, or the price of prescription medicine, or why people still worry about their jobs, or the price of fuel, or the environment, or stuff like that.
What the Democrats fail to realize is that the Republicans now have a blueprint for beating the Democrats. Fight them back, tooth and nail, make them answer questions.
This strategy has worked for Reagan against the Soviets and it has worked for Bush vs Hussein. The way good wins out over evil is to address it directly.
A Bush win in November will spell disaster for the Democrat party. Picture Democrat congressmen and senators being denied funding for pet projects. Watch the looks on their faces as the feed trough says Republicans only. Picture money going to the RNC so that each state will put up a candidate in 06 running on the premise of, "your congressman cannot bring home the bacon. I will."
Oh how sweet. Watch how we reduce spending on the backs of the Blue states. Not break them mind you. Just enough to let them know that perhaps they backed the wrong horse in 04. Bush will remind Senators like Levin, Leahy and Kennedy that their lies will come back to haunt them.
Imagine the looks on the Mullahs faces in Iran as elections are held early in 05 and the US military will pull out through Tehran and Damascus. Can't wait to see Germany and Frances faces as the oil for food scandal picks up full steam.
This is not a good time to be a Democrat. Especially one who knows that his party was hijacked from him.
Squash or cabbage come to mind.
Are you a troll?
That got Ralph going saying he was providing people with an option to vote for someone not controlled by special interest money. He then blasted both Dem's and Repub's. Next he described a number of issues like those you pointed out and indicated that these are things that should be discussed in the election campaign.
While I am a Republican and want GW to win, I do have to admit that Nader had some good things to say. I too think we should find out where Kerry stands on military budgets, the war on terrorism, the size of the federal government as opposed to font sizes, national guard services of GW, and the latest rants of Kitty Kelley.
GW has a vision for this country and Kerry is trying to keep from explaining what he will do (as he hasn't yet been told what to do by his handlers.)
Nope, but I do some volunteer advocacy work for a little guy with horns and a pointy tail.
And if Kerry steps down in disgrace, the DNC will appoint...
The issue for Democrats is no longer a Kerry win, but rather to insure that Bush has no coat tails. The best that the Dems can hope for is that Democrat voters turn to Nader rather than stay home. I noticed on some of the polls this seems to be happening. When Nader is added to the mix, Bush goes down a few points rather than Kerry.
I have nothing against the president, as I think he is a good man, I don't even think about Mr. Kerry or Mr. Nader. But I have a very bad gut-feeling/fear for our personal freedoms and what we consider as the American way of life, of many that surround and advise the president. I don't like what is going on in the Middle-east, or domestically. Therefore, I have chosen to abstain from voting this year, as I do not want to have an active part in getting either candidate elected.
Ok, Michael Moore and Kitty Kelley haven't done the trick. The way things are going, Larry Flynt will be showing up any day now.
Moore, Kelley, and Flynt -- the heavy hitters of today's Democratic Party. Don't know if Rather raises or lowers the average.
I feel blessed not to be a Democrat.
This may seem silly, but there will be a backlash against all discussion of military record, not just the forged ones. The public isn't very smart, and they will see the upcoming Swiftboat ads as equivalent to the CBS debacle.
Fortunately Bush has a nice lead and Kerry has nothing positive to offer.
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