While the Iraq War raged, John Kerry windsurfed.
So who is the "juvenile" and "tasteless" candidate?
Posted on 09/23/2004 5:23:19 AM PDT by crushkerry
Bush's ad shows he's got a sense of humor; Kerry's shows he's Mr. Gloom and Doom.
I publicly retract my post #27. The "Hey Dude" surfing ad is making the Dems crazy. Fund it more!
Yep just like his comments after the leader of Iraq spoke to congress.
God help this nation if Kerry is elected.
And really, if you've been reading our nearly daily analysis of Kerry's faults, you know that we're not lunatics spouting conspiracy theories.
I've seen the ad and I LOVE IT!!
Did the RNC do the ad .. or the Bush campaign ..??
The best part of the ad - the ending! I loved seeing the pompous arrogant a$$ dumped in the water .. LOL!!
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Thanks for reading.
While the Iraq War raged, John Kerry windsurfed.
So who is the "juvenile" and "tasteless" candidate?
This add was put out by Charlie Rangle, wasn't it?
"All right. I agree the flip flop stuff is important. I just think the wind surfing thing makes me uncomfortable. (My sons have taken up a lot of odd ball sports like this.)"
I trust your sons are not 60 something senators who married a wealthy widow who got rich from her previous husband's trust fund????
That's the point here: He's not a young man. He's on old, dorky gigolo trying to act cool and doing things most americans couldn't even dream of being able to afford.
I suppose making fun of the dukakis tank photo was bad form because GHWB didn't "take the high road"???
The end result is it worked. You cast your opponent as a joke that everyday people can laugh at, and you're halfway to victory. This ain't a croquet match - it's for control of the whitehose for the next four years.
The Road to Surfdom
The Bush campaign has released what is probably the best political ad of the year. It shows footage of John Kerry windsurfing (though not surfing in Vietnam) in rapidly alternating directions, as a narrator reads off various positions he's switched. Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube Waltz" plays in the background. The concluding line is "John Kerry: whichever way the wind blows."
The Kerry campaign shot back with a response ad, which, bizarrely, tries to change the subject to Iraq. Against a backdrop of an American flag (wow, who knew these guys were so patriotic?), ominous music plays as a narrator delivers the message:
One thousand U.S. casualties. Two Americans beheaded just this week. The Pentagon admits terrorists are pouring into Iraq. In the face of the Iraq quagmire, George Bush's answer is to run a juvenile and tasteless attack ad. John Kerry has a plan for success. Get allies involved. Speed up the training of Iraqis. Take essential steps to get a free election next year. On Iraq, it's time for a new direction.
To be sure, there is a war on, but the scolding tone of this ad strikes us as a bit much. After all, if we're not supposed to be doing anything frivolous while men are dying in Iraq, what the hell was John Kerry doing windsurfing?
The Kerry ad is really just another manifestation of the Democrat's narcissism. The message is: Don't you dare make fun of me in time of war! (On the other hand, we're supposed to believe that badmouthing the commander in chief and the war effort is "patriotic" "dissent.")
Surely, though, if we stop mocking John Kerry, the terrorists will have won.
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It's hard to beat a somebody, who got regime change in two thugcentric countries, with a fatuous foppish nobody like the K-flopper. He wouldn't be the noinee if the controllers of that evil party hadn't written off '04.
There have been more than four thousand American deaths already in the war against terror. Iraq is a part of that war, so is 9/11, so was the attack on the Cole, the embassy bombings, etc.. We should count all the deaths as part of an ongoing and necessary war. The President speaks of it in these terms, and I agree with him.
"I wish the add had not been run. It gives ammo to the enemy"
As far as the DNC is concerned EVERYTHING the President says is ammo. If it wasn't for the President, what would they talk about? I was not offended by their ad at all. What offends me more than anything is Kerry trying to pull the "quagmire" line. He's trying to say that we are losing a war, we are not, just like in Vietnam. This time, however, he won't win.
Kerry treats the war the same way he's done everything else all these years. He plants himself on both sides of every issue. If you complain about something to his office, you get back a letter explaining why he's for A. Then you'll get a letter saying why he's for B. Classic Kerry. He and the RATs deserve the landslide headed their way.
When he disparages the PM of Iraq, he loses the opportunity to lecture our President.
We have a second commercial running here in MI. The background music is WIPE OUT. LOL - that should be kerry's campaign song.
I agree they won't win. BTW- I was not offended by the ad at all. I enjoyed it and thought it was creative and witty.
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