Posted on 09/26/2004 4:09:24 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Targeted, Truthful Ads Gutting Kerry Campaign Written by Chris Long Monday, September 27, 2004
George W. Bush spent the first months of the political campaigning season like a boxer in a huddle, covering up and weathering a barrage of blows from the upstart. The Kerry/DNC ads were a scattershot affair, alleging anything and everything, flitting from accusation to spectacular accusation, not unlike the flip-flopping candidate.
Indeed, the Bush campaign seemed to obeying the military axiom of ‘concentration of forces’: gather your troops for decisive blows in the face of a scattered, approaching enemy. The hundreds of millions of dollars expended by the rich fat-cats and 527 group supporters of Kerry have come to naught – but the purveyors of the ads cleaned up, charging nice fat fees for churning out the ads.
Liken what happened to Kerry as a mugging, committed by a president who attacked the flop-flopper in a dark alley, cutting his political throat and leaving the heiress predator bleeding in the gutter. Taken to the political hospital, Kerry’s pals paraded in and out of intensive care, mouthing platitudes about catching the mugger, for which Kerry is grateful, comforted by the thought that, gee, it’s great to have friends.
It appears more convincing than ever that the political operatives packed into the Kerry campaign by the Clintons are benignly (perhaps malignantly) degrading the campaign, convinced that what worked for the Clintons will work for the Heinz-Kerrys.
One need look for further than today’s edition of The Times Of India for a bell-weather of the Kerry campaign:
“NEW YORK: The jury was out for a while, but Teresa Heinz Kerry has been declared a resounding liability by women.
In a scathing attack, feminist writer Naomi Wolf claims the ketchup heiress is having an emasculating effect on John Kerry, her second husband. "Listen to what the Republicans are hitting Kerry with: Indecisive. Effete. French. They are all but calling this tall, accomplished war hero gay," she writes in New York magazine.”
If Indians are indeed paying attention to Naomi Wolf’s perceptions of Teresa and the Kerry campaign, the election is over. Bush has won. Now Hillary gets her chance. Teresa seems to have little trouble finding the bar in every stop on the campaign trail – that is her real problem. It also seems a plausible explanation for her uninhibited free associations of every topic under the sun. After all, you don’t get filthy rich without knowing something, do you? Teresa wants to tell all us all about it: how to live, what to think, who the societal scumbags are, what ‘idiots’ there are amongst Elite-Media. Obviously the personalities, marriage and relationship have “issues”.
So obsessed are the Kerry campaign operatives with “energizing the base” that all else is ignored. Recall that Clinton received a scant 42% or so of the vote during the ’92 elections. Have today’s political operatives forgotten that fact? Delivering up 42% of the popular vote for Clinton may have seemed like a commendable achievement then, but this is now: Perot or his equivalent is not in the race. The Carville-Begala team is making the same mistake they did during the Clinton campaign, albeit in the absence of a spoiler like Ross Perot – after all, it was Ross Perot who gave us the Clintons. Nader is no Perot but he did, after all, give us George W. Bush. The Clinton operatives will deliver up 42% of the vote again. That’s a landslide for Bush.
The Clinton operatives appear unaware of the fact the dynamics of any campaign may be different from previous campaigns. They are applying the one-size-fits-all rule where circumstances do not warrant, likely not having the perception to realize that (hey!) there is no third-party candidate this time that will be much of a factor. Launching lawsuits to keep Nader out of politics will get the Liberals utterly nowhere fast.
Indeed, whoever told Kerry to go on TV and attack the credibility of Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi is either insane or intentionally sabotaging the campaign. Great! Now Kerry has shown friends and allies he can even flip-flop on them. What on earth could Kerry’s handlers have been thinking, if they were thinking. That must have been a trifle disconcerting for the French and Germans.
To every Kerry tirade during the upcoming debates, all that President Bush has to do is smile wryly, and say “Flip-flop”, “You may have the remainder of my time to speak, John…”
To the Republicans I say this: keep using Kerry’s own words against him, urge Teresa to stay on the campaign trail and assure the president keeps managing the war with a consistent, steady hand. Every negative development in the war between now and the election will only convince the electorate even more that we need George W. Bush’s steady hand on the helm.
About the Writer: Chris Long is a life-long devotee of history, strategic affairs, military history, and geopolitics. He lives in Georgia and is employed as a computer systems analyst .
Well .. she's married to the guy who is running .. and that does make her fair game.
I think she's a disaster looking for a place to happen. I cannot imagine her as First Lady .. nor can I imagine her husband representing America as her President.
I forgot something.
The Kerry's have NO VISION FOR AMERICA.
Their only vision is FOR THEMSELVES.
I don't think it is either .. and after she said that she was aghast when her parents moved to America .. well .. then why would I want her to represent me if she thinks so little of America.
"Alcoholism may explain her hair???"
What does that mean ..??
If Teresa is the disease, how could anyone think Hillary would be the cure?
Ping
I don't think so. I think the bar is a figure of speech for the limit.
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