Posted on 10/03/2006 7:07:55 PM PDT by kristinn
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In 2004, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth started out on the margins of the presidential race. In an era of Old Media domination, they might have stayed there. When the group's founders held a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on May 4, there was nothing in the next day's Washington Post, and the episode got scant attention elsewhere. A conservative website, FreeRepublic.com, however, covered the news conference and listed the fax numbers of Establishment news organizations, urging readers to send missives demanding to know why they were "blacking out" the event. A day later, the Post and New York Times carried short stories inside the paper. The Post report included the Kerry campaign's response that the Swift Boat Veterans was a "politically motivated organization with close ties to the Bush administration."
The SBVfT was organized by Vietnam veterans who profoundly resented Kerry's role in the antiwar movement. Some of the men personally had served with Kerry in Vietnam. The group was funded and promoted by prominent Republicans, several of whom had ties to both President Bush and Karl Rove, though no evidence of a coordinated effort ever emerged.
As it happened, the SBVfT need not have worried about the amount of coverage they would receive, in either the New Media or the Old. And the spasm of publicity would come at the worst possible time for Kerry. On July 28, one day before Kerry formally accepted the Democratic nomination at the party's national convention in Boston, Drudge touted the imminent release of Un¿t for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. On the morning of Drudge's report, the book was ranked at #1,318 on Amazon.com. The next day it had jumped to #2, and within a couple of days it hit #1.
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The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a GWB2000/Dorothy at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" type scenario where we all realize the thing we've been looking for has been right under our noses the whole time and nominate Cheney.
I remember there was a sea change away from Kerry after that day. It made the difference.
Thanks Free Republic!
Yeah...Lynn Cheney! :<>)
A vote for Rudy is a vote for the homosexual agenda, anti-gun legislation, open borders and abortion.
i know hes said no, but in this time of trouble, how about dick cheney???
not really, if we found out one thing about the office of the President with GWB it's that The President doesn't have that much power.
"The dynamic in 2008 will be the same as it was in 2004".
Sounds like Harris and Halperin know the fight is over already for 06 (repubs win) and they are giving early advice in this article to Dems about how to contend for the big one in 08.
(Won't work for them in 08 either tho.)
bttt
If someone suitable doesn't step up to the plate, we are in deep trouble in 2008. The only way George Allen would win is if the Dems fielded an even lighter lightweight---or Hillary, a monumental loser right down there with McGovern and Mondale.
Condi Rice...try as I have, I cannot see a conservative in this person. She'd win if she ran, but she isn't running and she wouldn't deliver for us if she did run and win.
The rest, I don't even want to think about it. Giuliani, McCain, Gingrich, all sure defeats.
I agree.....but at least she's not an in-your-face gun-grabber like Giuliani.
YES!
Me too.
I definitely don't want to be defeatest or Pollyanna-ish...but that person was here all along...Jeb.
No Bush III is gonna get elected soon...
God works in mysterious ways.
WOT and closed borders are the two most important issues, IMHO.
This far out, nobody mentioned this President Bush; nary a word. I think that that will be repeated, as far as '08. Somebody we aren't even thinking about, will probably throw his hat in the ring.
He will NOT run; take that to the bank and neither will Condi!
We CANNOT throw in the towel on 2008! Wow!
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