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WINDSURFER WATERLOO (why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is Kerry's Achilles' heel)
NRO ^ | 9.26.04 | Mia T

Posted on 09/26/2004 3:49:00 AM PDT by Mia T

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1 posted on 09/26/2004 3:49:02 AM PDT by Mia T
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To: WorkingClassFilth; jla; Gail Wynand; Brian Allen; Wolverine; Lonesome in Massachussets; IVote2; ...


2 posted on 09/26/2004 3:54:02 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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3 posted on 09/26/2004 3:55:32 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Wolverine

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4 posted on 09/26/2004 3:56:07 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

Kerry goes which ever way the wind blows. Even his hobby encompasses that.


5 posted on 09/26/2004 4:02:52 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: Mia T

You rock Mia. You're becoming an FR institution!.


6 posted on 09/26/2004 4:10:14 AM PDT by zarf
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To: Mia T
Your humble correspondent wonders if the Blue Danube waltz was the wrong music for the commercial. Maybe Doris Day/Mari Wilson/Lila Downs "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"

Or, Peggy Lee's, "Is That All There Is".

7 posted on 09/26/2004 4:15:06 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: Mia T

Democrats dont get the joke. The Joke is John Kerry


8 posted on 09/26/2004 4:47:28 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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IMO, all of J F'n K's little boy sports antics--snowboarding, windsurfing, dress-up biking, footballing-- is a good deal of why a lot of women aren't buying into his schtick. Contrasted w/ the dominant image of what Bush does when he has a little time off--working on the homeplace-- Kerry comes up as an irresponsible & spoiled little boy. I'm having a tough time conjuring up an image of little john-boy even running a Weedeater around one of Teresa's many mansions...


9 posted on 09/26/2004 5:02:18 AM PDT by elli1
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The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.

"This is a shameful advertisement that shows a disturbing disregard for those fighting and sacrificing in Iraq," said Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry, who demanded that the president repudiate it.

Edwards offered a similar critique during an appearance in Miami, Florida.

"Today George Bush is laughing again. Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess, and they think this is a joke," Edwards said. "It is clear they have no idea how to protect our troops, but they will do anything to protect their jobs."

 

Au contraire. (There they go again with their sloppy conflation schemes.)

By conflating the two charges--judgment and patriotism-- John Kerry and the Left expose their guilty knowledge of same. And it doesn't matter whether it was done with Machiavellian calculation or out of simple naiveté.

Seditious rhetoric and expressions of legitimate differences of opinion are not mutually exclusive constructs, David Gergen notwithstanding. But because the Left's wartime rhetoric about Bush is abusive, undermining, irrational, and ultimately empty, it can only be sedition.

Mia T
YOO-HOO! UNDECIDEDS + "PERSUADABLES"
HEAR THE SPEECH JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR

(WHY INFORMED, RATIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH)

It is precisely President Bush's high regard and concern for the troops that require him to expose the danger that would be posed by a commander-in-chief kerry...

Given the critical importance of the message, the ad was exactly the way to go.

Humor will increase the audience, and the windsurfer metaphor is great shorthand (not only for Kerry's shifting positions, but also for his priorities, i.e., windsurfing in Nantucket vs. getting briefed on al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States.

"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."

John Kerry
Larry King Live
July 8, 2004


 

Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel defended the ad, saying that "what's disturbing is John Kerry's various shifting positions on the war on Iraq."

To be more precise (if somewhat less politic), what's killing our troops and emboldening the enemy--and what may kill Americans--is John Kerry, a self-serving, shifting, undermining and ultimately seditious big-league scold.

 


10 posted on 09/26/2004 5:33:38 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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There is a major difference between the windsurfing ad and the one put out by the DNC in retaliation (quick, fast and in a hurry). I observed the difference when they were both played on Hannity & Colmes the other evening. Windsurfing Ad: source - Kerry Rebuttal Ad: source - articles from NYT, WaPo, CNN, USAtoday & some small newspaper from somewhere (objective, factual sources, no?) I'm surprised they didn't quote disgusting Mikey Moore and/or his shlockumentary!
11 posted on 09/26/2004 5:47:10 AM PDT by LarkNeelie
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To: Mia T

bttt


12 posted on 09/26/2004 5:47:39 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I wear sleepwear therefore I think)
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To: LarkNeelie
MOORE IS LESS--THE MOVIE
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
 
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004


13 posted on 09/26/2004 5:52:46 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

good morning
& bttt


14 posted on 09/26/2004 5:57:19 AM PDT by firewalk
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15 posted on 09/26/2004 6:20:18 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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Underscoring the Bush attacks was a new television ad showing Kerry windsurfing to the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz.

Now there's a talented adman! I wish I could see this ad. I knew the minute I saw the photo of Kerry windsurfing off Martha's Vineyard that he'd made a huge political blunder. His campaign advisors must have lost it.

Kerry: "I love baseball. I love football. I love sports. French skiers."

Oh, yes---man of the people. When he's not windsurfing, he's snowboarding, mountain climbing, skiing, parasailing or tooling around town on his eight thousand dollar bicycle.

The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.

Humor is a dangerous thing during a war.

16 posted on 09/26/2004 6:29:08 AM PDT by newsworthy (That's not my SUV, that's the family's SUV.)
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Kerry........... a big-league scold.

God is that true........ and repulsive!

18 posted on 09/26/2004 6:49:17 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: Baynative

Excellent (three times!)


19 posted on 09/26/2004 6:50:31 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: elli1

**IMO, all of J F'n K's little boy sports antics--snowboarding, windsurfing, dress-up biking, footballing-- is a good deal of why a lot of women aren't buying into his schtick. Contrasted w/ the dominant image of what Bush does when he has a little time off--working on the homeplace-- Kerry comes up as an irresponsible & spoiled little boy. I'm having a tough time conjuring up an image of little john-boy even running a Weedeater around one of Teresa's many mansions...**

Real woman want real men Kerry is not a real man and neither is Edwards I can't image what he does I am certain is nothing macho.

With Bush/Cheney you have 2 ranchers, fishermen and hunters they are past times not exclusively for men but normally associated with men and real men after all they do have their origins in bringing the food home for their woman. This is the image that Bush/Cheney give and women respond to that much more then men playing about on the water.


20 posted on 09/26/2004 7:35:35 AM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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