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Nixon aide: Kerry not too swift (John Dean: '23% of America is Protofascist')
The Boston Herald ^ | July 23, 2006 | Dave Wedge

Posted on 07/23/2006 6:50:04 PM PDT by new yorker 77

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To: jazusamo
I thought I remembered something about Kerry threatening to sue over Unfit For Command. I think I mixed it up with John O'Neill inviting Kerry to sue him for saying Kerry was never in Cambodia.

There were so many threats and invitations to sue - who knows anymore! LOL!

I spent quite a bit of time searching for j F K lawsuits, as I thought I had heard the same thing. Amazing, nothing turned up after pages of junk and nothing of substance.

121 posted on 07/23/2006 10:05:39 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: Spanaway Lori
Ok, help me out here. PROTOfascist?

Yes, much like Gore Vidal calling Bill Buckley a "crypto Nazi"!

CA....

122 posted on 07/23/2006 10:14:49 PM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
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To: Spanaway Lori
Ok, help me out here. PROTOfascist?

Can't help you on this one. Haven't a clue what it means. And, since it came from Dean I won't exert the effort to find out.

The media seems to never run out of ex-politicans and ex-military personnel that they keep bringing forward to lend validity to their stories.

123 posted on 07/23/2006 10:15:46 PM PDT by jerry639
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To: new yorker 77
...........Kerry slipped up during the 2004 campaign against President Bush by not suing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth when they published a book calling into question the Bay State senator’s Vietnam service.

Kerry would not dare sue.

Why?

One word:

Discovery.

124 posted on 07/23/2006 10:18:50 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: new yorker 77
John Dean, a Republican

I couldn't get past that.

125 posted on 07/23/2006 10:20:38 PM PDT by jeremiah (How much did we get for that rope?)
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To: new yorker 77
“About 23 percent of the American people are authoritarian conservatives,” Dean said. “It’s proto-fascist behavior.

What the (*#)@(*)(? From where did he pull that figure? And what does that mean? That conservatives are fascists in training? But I thought fascists were socialists like Dean, as in NAZI "national socialist worker's party"?

126 posted on 07/23/2006 10:52:45 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: new yorker 77

The obvious reason Kerry did not sue--he would've lost.

A suit would've established the truth of the Swift Boat evidence. By ignoring it, Kerry hoped his MSM pals would convince voters it was false. He had a better chance trying to brazen it out.

If Kerry thought he could win in court he certainlt could've sued after the election.


127 posted on 07/24/2006 12:11:07 AM PDT by John Semmens
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To: new yorker 77

I forget who said it but apt, "Fascism always appears a threat in the US, but always lands elsewhere."

The danger of fascism comes from the politically correct leftist socialist agenda of the Democratic Party.

Dean knows no conservative or libertarian would pick up his book, so his only hope is to say something outrageous to attract the left-leaning reading public (about six of them).


128 posted on 07/24/2006 2:44:13 AM PDT by Roy Tucker
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To: new yorker 77

Nixon's biggest mistake was in allowing this guy anywhere near his administration.


129 posted on 07/24/2006 2:45:58 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: new yorker 77
"..I thought he should have brought a defamation action against them and he would have succeeded.”

Kool Aid drinker or liar.

The Swifties were chomping at the bit for such a lawsuit.

130 posted on 07/24/2006 2:48:51 AM PDT by Radix (Somehow, my Flux Capacitor got crossed up with my Interocitor.)
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To: new yorker 77

Kerry didn't sue the Swiftvets for defamation for one reason--truth is an absolute defense. Dean, a disbarred lawyer, is so dumb he can't even understand that little point.


131 posted on 07/24/2006 5:32:24 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: goldstategop

Dean is as much of a conservative and a Republican as is the average "lifelong Republican" who calls Rush to bash Bush.


132 posted on 07/24/2006 5:35:05 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: MortMan

It's slander if spoken and libel if printed. Since the Swiftvets spread their messsage of truth by all available media outlets, a suit against them could have been based on libel and slander allegations. Of course, truth being an absolute defense, Kerry would have lost, which is why he never sued them.


133 posted on 07/24/2006 5:43:11 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Rembrandt

LOL


134 posted on 07/24/2006 7:00:20 AM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: benjaminjjones

Who is she?


135 posted on 07/24/2006 9:11:22 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: Trust Nancy Pelosi to Win the War on Terror!! (gag))
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