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Kerry negatives on the rise, could swamp campaign
The Hill ^
| 3/31/04
| Dick Morris
Posted on 04/01/2004 7:46:30 PM PST by Jean S
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:46:31 PM PST
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Jean S
To: JeanS
Evidently there is a limit on how many times he could say he wanted to lower corporate taxes and drill in ANWAR before the rats started jumping ship.
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:50:46 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:51:25 PM PST
by
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To: JeanS
Much as I hate to agree with Dick Morris, I concur that any talk on the War on Terror helps Bush. Kerry's message is eclipsed by the WOT dialogues, and as Oscar Wilde said, "the only thing worse than being talked about is... not being talked about."
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:51:49 PM PST
by
XEHRpa
To: Howlin; NYC Republican; Perlstein
"John Kerrys negative rating, according to the Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, has risen from 28 percent March 4 to 36 percent March 24."
Kerry is falling too far, too fast.
We have got to back off of this guy until after their Boston convention.
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:53:26 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: JeanS
The conventional wisdom says that Bushs ratings as a wartime commander and leader in the war on terror have been undermined by Clarkes testimony and book Conventional Wisdom is when idiot liberal reporters talk to other idiot liberal reporters.
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:54:11 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
To: JeanS
The reason Kerry has left some of the Bush camp's charges unanswered is very simple--they are unanswerable. A proposal to raise the gas tax is tough to spin. Likewise, repeatedly voting down defense appropriations. Even Bill Clinton had to admit that something went on between him and Monica when her blue dress was found to contain his DNA.
To: JeanS
Morris is obsessed that it is all about terror, and maybe he is right. But I think Kerry's erosion has more to do with some voters' discomfort about the emerging character overall of John F. Kerry. Just my two cents.
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:55:33 PM PST
by
Torie
To: Southack
lol.
Most FReepers aren't concerned about Kerry being replaced, because they can replace him just as easily after the convention. Nothing we haven't seen before.
My Story Updated
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:56:19 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
To: JeanS
Hello JeanS!
Every time Kerry speaks, his negatives go up...and that is a good thing...
Bush/Cheney 2004!!!
DD
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posted on
04/01/2004 7:58:18 PM PST
by
DiamondDon1
(Card carrying Member VRWC)
To: JeanS
Act I) "Hark! I hear horseclops afar. Anon! 'Tis Hitlery to the rescue!!"
Act II) (months later) "JFK sire, is it true that you have had a terrible fall from your steed? Tell us it is your neck that is not broken? Alas!"
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:00:28 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: Torie
But I think Kerry's erosion has more to do with some voters' discomfort about the emerging character overall of John F. Kerry. Hope you are right.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:01:26 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(Democrats use facts like a drunk uses a lamppost -- for support rather than illumination.)
To: JeanS
In 1995, I played on the medias inability to look up to the sky and watch the air war, and on its obsession with events on the ground, by running ads attacking Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole as early as July of that year. We kept the ads off the air in New York and Washington. The press never noticed that we were advertising. Month after month, we saw Doles negatives rising, but the media could never tell where it came from even though we were advertising on their own stations!Say what you will about Dick Morris (and I know a lot of people around here do not trust him), I learn a whole lot from reading and listening to Dick Morris. There is a reason he is hired by Presidents, Senators, and media outlets for advise and commentary. He is a pretty smart fellow.
To: JeanS
John Kerry is one spooky dude.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:02:14 PM PST
by
Saundra Duffy
(For victory & freedom!!!)
To: JeanS
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:06:59 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: Torie
But I think Kerry's erosion has more to do with some voters' discomfort about the emerging character overall of John F. Kerry. They are starting to realize that he was an Anti-War hippie.
We knew forever, but I think the hoi polli are just catching on....an NOT liking it.
To: eddie willers
Whoops...forgot the second "o".
hoi polloi
To: Tennessean4Bush; Torie
If you really want to get a sense of how bad a candidate Kerry is, watch a video clip of one of his campaign appearances -- then watch the clip with your eyes closed. The guy makes Bob Dole sound like a towering figure of eloquence.
I think the most effective radio ad the Bush team could possibly run would simply involve 30 seconds of John Kerry dialogue mixed with 30 seconds of George W. Bush speaking Spanish. Even listeners who don't understand a word of Spanish will vote overwhelmingly for Bush after hearing that.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:11:18 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(Alberta -- the TRUE north strong and free.)
To: Torie
I agree with your general assessment. The more people see of Kerry, the less they
want to see.
Now let me ask you a question: Have you seen so much as a single smile out of Kerry in the past year? I don't think I have. Throughout the long primary campaign Kerry had to do everything he could to try to appeal to the bitter, humorless, miserable left. The Democrat base. I think he was at it for so long that he became the epitome of that whole sad, sorry mentality. And normal people just don't like to see that.
Bush in a landslide.
To: Lancey Howard
No, you are right, Kerry lacks the Clinton light touch. That was Clinton's genius, and Kerry does NOT have it in spades. When one is a continual critic, it needs to be leavened. Otherwise, folks begin to think the chap is just a male version of a Cassandra, fixated on the gloom and doom, and a total downer. If Kerry keeps this up, he will increase the alcoholism rate.
It is also odd that Kerry has failed to respond to how he will really pay for all his goodies. He may give an opening for Bush to sound like a traditional fiscally responsible Pubbie, which of course, is well, not his strong suit.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:18:50 PM PST
by
Torie
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