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Posted on 09/15/2004 11:34:57 PM PDT by kattracks
September 16, 2004 -- BIZARRELY, John Kerry is now clutching onto the document-challenged Dan Rather like a drowning man grabbing onto a sinking ship.Ask outside Democratic strategists, and they all say it makes zero sense for Kerry allies to piggyback on the Rather attacks against Bush's National Guard service now that the anchor's credibility is melting like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Worried Dems say it shows lack of discipline, lack of strategy, lack of message and freelancing — just what a slipping campaign can't afford. "It's stupid, it's stupid, it's stupid. Get off the National Guard and all that bull. Every day we talk about the National Guard and Vietnam is another day that George Bush wins. No one cares about 30 years ago," a top Dem says.
Another tells of a focus group of swing voters this week where no one even mentioned Rather's Guard flap but an unnerving number "parroted back" attacks on Kerry as a flip-flopper who lied about his Vietnam service. "The Kerry people think they didn't attack Bush hard enough. They're dead wrong. More attacks on Bush aren't a reason to vote for Kerry," this strategist says.
Others suspect the driving force in going after Bush on the Guard is a deep rage inside Kerry and wife Teresa — remember how she tried to paint Bush as a shirker at the Democratic convention? — over how the Vietnam issue has backfired on the Democrat candidate.
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Did CBS pull a Bill Clinton? The documents are fake but accurate... I smoked pot but i didn't inhale... hmmmmm
Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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My, my, my, you don't suppose TeRAYza faxed forged documents to Rather, do you? Maybe they came from the Tides Foundation fax and Burkett was set up to take the fall.
NEWS FLASH: Dan Rather will blame forgeries on a wardrobe malfunction.
The 'deep rage" within Kerry is that deep inside he knows Bush can fly fighters and Kerry can't. Plus bush served with honor, and Kerry's service is a lie. He's simply projecting his self hatred and guilt outward. (psychology 101)
Yeah, he forget to put his brain on before he stepped in front of the camera. One hell of a wardrobe malfunction..
I was going with the freelancing, all-things-to-all-people angle until I read your post.
Ronnie Jr. hates GWB in a similar vein.
I wonder if the "original copy"( now there's a contradiction of terms) CBS received has a fax number on it...
this has got to be the weirdest election i have ever payed attention to :^D
you mean the faxed copy CBS has...
the faxed faux copy...
Now there's a poll question for the ages! I gotta go with Gunga Dan as the worst, because he's done more damage for a longer time.
Pat Caddell has been saying this for the last several days. Kerry's campaign is based entirely on a lack of strategy and lack of a message (aside from re-fighting Vietnam), all for the sake of a power grab in Washington, DC.
"Every day we talk about the National Guard and Vietnam is another day that George Bush wins. No one cares about 30 years ago," a top Dem says."
As a still undecided voter I am deeply concerned about Bush's lack of duty regarding his National Guard duty. I also would like to know more about his DUI in college(?), his shadowing dealings with "Skull & Crossbones" at Yale, and his negligence with the guinea pig that his daughters mentioned during the convention.
Institutionalized psychotherapy is the best approach.
Details on the hour.....
Rather reported that serious questions were raised about the memos. He did not "concede" that they were "suspect."
Were the "originals" more invective? Or is trying to recall adverbatim a document from 32 years a bit of a stretch for any mind on this planet? Did Rove Inc replace the original with a censured less castigating memo?
CBS should've said. Go f*ck yourselves!
F*ck You GOP. You did Clinton, We'll do George. Even if this precious idiot wins, We'll get him Impeached. So don't worry - one way or an other, he is TOAST. Deal with it.
The documents may have been pulled out of a chimp's butt, but that don't change the truth: he was an awol ahole.
A thought. What if the memos WERE forged...by the GOP? It would make a perfect "poison plum" for Rove to insert into the discourse, causing all future talk of Bush's miserable service to be discounted as "unverifiable" and "oh, you know that's fake, right?" This would fit in with Rove's modus operandi quite well.
Does it really matter if the memo is 'real' or 'fake'?
Bravo Dan Rather DAN Thanks for having guts DAN You're A True American DAN You're A Great Patriot DAN I Could Kiss You DAN GREAT WORK
Ok how can they be fake and accuarte all at the same time? Alice please do join me in going through the looking glass And if they are fake... can we all say KARL ROVE?
Frankly, I'm really tired of hearing about "Kerry hatred". I don't see anything of the sort here at Free Republice...and if it's out there, this is where it would show up. No, what we see here is Kerry derision...jokes, jaw dropping disbelief at our luck that he's turned out to be such a doofus candidate (not to mention his wife). We get angry at all the lies they tell. But, hate? No.
So to Mr. McLaughlin and you MSM's reading our tea leaves here, searching desperately for hateful, racist, homophobic comments, take note. Kerry is a JOKE, not a victim of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
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