Posted on 09/24/2004 2:23:29 PM PDT by Pikamax
Chairman McAuliffe, Please Shut Up Sept. 24, 2004
This column from The Nation was written by David Corn. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please shut up, Terry McAuliffe -- that is, about George W. Bush and his missing-time in the Texas Air National Guard.
I keep receiving press releases from flacks at the Democratic Party about Bush's Guard service (or lack thereof). For instance, moments before John Kerry delivered a major speech on September 20 that refocused his campaign with a blast against Bush's war in Iraq, the Democratic National Committee press office emailed me and other reporters an invitation to participate in a conference call with McAuliffe on Bush and the Guard. The call was scheduled to occur in the middle of Kerry's speech.
Shouldn't the Democratic Party that day have been reinforcing Kerry's message that Bush has screwed the pooch in Iraq and that Kerry has a plan for dealing with the mess Bush created? Instead, McAuliffe and his crew at DNC HQ thought it was best to take yet another swipe at Bush for cutting out on the Guard.
Despite the success of the Swift Vets' assault on Kerry -- as fact-free as much of it was -- McAuliffe and the party are wrong to obsess over what Bush or did not do three decades ago. I've written frequently about Bush and the Guard, and I encourage journalists and researchers to pursue the story. But Bush's military service should not be a frontline battle for the Democratic Party. By raising the issue incessantly, McAuliffe and the party will not persuade voters. Voters probably have already reached their conclusions about that 32-year-old episode and its significance. Absent new information -- material not based on forgeries -- McAuliffe should not be beating this horse further.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
It's like deja view all over again: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226159/posts
Perhaps the freakish Leftists will prove their assertions for once. Or perhaps not. Perhaps they'll continue to "prove" their little fantasies by forging military documents on Microsoft Word.
For once, I agree with Corn. The Dems has wasted about two weeks trying to make W's ANG service an issue. Their stupidity. Can we trust the nation to a group of politicos that exhibit such stupidity? But that's fine. That's two weeks of non-momentum.
This from SeeBS?
I can't stand David Corn. He gives me the creeps when I see him on Fox News.
Nothing like a writer on a CBS website calling something fact-free.
Somehow I doubt Bill and Hillary will allow McAuliffe to step out of the spotlight just yet.
You're right. When he blathers on his mouth is like some amorphous sea creature. I find myself horrified but hypnotized, kind of like Sauron's eye.
'screwed the pooch"???!!?
How very astute a comment. How articulate. I can just see Gil Chesterton, or maybe Thomas Aquinas putting it just that way.
Hasn't that college education done wonders for the leftist intelligensia in America?
Despite the success of the Swift Vets' assault on Kerry -- as fact-free as much of it was...
I'd like to see a debate between this pinhead and John O'Neil to see if could back up that statement.
Oh hush up, David, we WANT Terry to keep it up!
Mcauliff called to talk about Bush's military record? That's odd. Usually when he calls up democrat operatives and Bush haters (I'd add in "the media", but I don't want to be redundant), they just, you know, shoot the breeze. Nice weather we been havin' lately, eh? Short and pleasant.
When Kerry loses, McAuliffe's head will explode like the guy in the opening sequence of "Scanners"...
It certainly got the spotlight off of SBVforTRUTH.
Corn, you should tell the Toons. If you've got a pair.
Hypocrisy, thy name is CBS.
With all the valid criticisms that the Democrat hierarchy could raise about George W. Bush, they choose to focus on purely inconsequential little nuggets from years ago. Is there nothing in Bush's current record as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief that the Democrats may properly call into question? Or don't they know enough about the particulars of the duties of the President to provide an honest assessment of Bush's performance?
McAwful is one of the most lying Democrats that ever came
down the pike. wheen are they going to indict him for that
stock fraud? I would like to see him stay on for the dimwits.... they deserve each other. The word.."Class"
is not in his demeanor or conversations....Jake
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