Posted on 10/23/2004 9:00:01 AM PDT by WL-law
In the final week before the Nov 2000 elections, the democrats, in coordination with the liberal media, released their secret "personal destruction Bush attack", and we all certainly remember the incident and its aftermath: GW Bush had, we learned, a DUI charge years earlier, that had been "covered up" for the election.
It seems almost silly now in retrospect, but let's not forget how the media ran with the story, non-stop, to provide the necessary 'liberal echo chamber' sufficient to create enough gravitas to change the election and to wipe out Bush's then-existing lead.
The story also had the effect of giving "cover" to Democrat vote fraud, in that it provided a plausible hypothesis for the massive change in actual voting, in comparison to the overwhelming consensus of polling data gathered only days earlier.
Well, it is obvious that the same conditions apply today, and Kerry needs to generate the same last-minute movement in the polls.
So -- we should be expecting the "surprise" any day now -- I expect it in the next 24 hours.
Any Freeper predictions as to what we can expect to see?
Yes... I believe the Bush campaign has learned its lesson and prepared a counter-surprise.
I strongly suspect that Karl Rove does not intend to be caught with his, ummm, guard down.
Yes... I believe the Bush campaign has learned its lesson and prepared a counter-surprise.
I hope you are right...
With gazillions of Bush-bashing books and movies all over the place, what else?
If I were the democrats, I'd be more worried about myself.
Bush is a chessmaster and well aware of that last minute ploy from 2000.
I would expect it to be next Friday, about an hour before the evening news.
They could say anything that if its so close to election they wouldn't need that much proof. One of the Texans for Truth will come out and say GDW had sex with an animal while drunk or some crap like that.
I would not be surprised to see some bogus document showing how Bush and Cheney made billions of dollars by going into Iraq.
There would not be time to disprove these documents until after the vote had taken place.
When it was proven to be false, it would be too late.
i think this all about the ground game... and we can effect the result by joining in the 72 hour thing at the rnc.
i would recommend all FreeRepublic join it and get off the puter and get the ground game done.... the last 72 hours.
So many accusations have been thrown at Bush that he's pretty much immune.
Exactly, all those books against Bush..I don't think so. If I were the Dems I would expect a surprise in the next 6 days....I think that it will have to do with Kerry's naval discharge...just a gut feeling.
I honestly think the CBS memo fraud was the beginning of the "October Suprise." If it was passed off as true it would lead to other "real docs" each building up to discredit Bush.
I would be worried about films, photographs, and tape recordings of John Kerry made in the late 1960s and early 1970s surfacing showing that he is little more than a socialist (or worse) shill.
I strongly suspect that Karl Rove does not intend to be caught with his, ummm, guard down.So far, in my opinion, Rove gets a D- for his handling of this campaign. If Rush was in Rove's job, the landslide we all know is possible would have been sealed a month or so ago.
Earlier, Chris had predicted that it will be the old girlfriend who had an abortion, or the revelation of an affair between Bush and Condi Rice. (You'd have to be a real KoolAde drinker to believe that one!)
Yeah, remember it's not the truth of the allegation but the gravity of the charge that matters.
I hate telephone banks.
I just send money... (-;
As I understand it, if Kerry were to pull something like that, there are about 5 or 6 (!) things I understand Bush is ready to counter-dump on Kerry.
It would be a serious mistake for Kerry to try anything like that -- he would be buried. Plus, the Bush folks don't need the media to dump the charges -- they have plenty of $ in reserve to air them themselves.
Kerry would be foolish -- I can say authoritatively -- to try something like that.
You need to realize that the Bush campaign has a contigency plan for all kinds of claims that may come out in the last week of the election. This is standard campaign practice.
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