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Kerry Campaign Unfazed by Bush Attacks
Yahoo News ^ | 8/21/04 | AP

Posted on 08/21/2004 11:14:55 AM PDT by kattracks

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To: Soundman4x4
It's too late to do it with credibility now. If he'd done it at the start SWVs would understand the political realities and continue to run the ads

You miss my point. If Bush would specifically denounce the SBVFT similar to what McCain did, I would view it as a lack of character and principle on Bush's part. These are decorated veterans who have a right to express their opinion. I know the SBVFT will run the ads regardless as a matter of principle and honor.

81 posted on 08/21/2004 12:03:36 PM PDT by kabar
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To: over3Owithabrain
The first ad was really a "feint" -- each side has "evidence" and you can believe or disbelieve the switvets as to who is telling the truth. The second ad, Kerry's testimony in front of Congress attacking veterans as war criminals, is the "true" ad. Let Kerry et al. (i.e., crats and media) waste their ammunition and time protesting the first ad since the second ad is the one that is truly devastating since it is Kerry himself who is condemning vets as war criminals. There is no ambiguity, no he said/they said, no "fog of war" involved in the second ad.

I don't think McCain is going to go to bat for Kerry, to defend his calling our military war criminals. I just think McCain is not going to want to get involved. It is simply unimaginable that McCain will rise to Kerry's defense on that issue.

The first ad accomplished what it was meant to do. It is the second ad that is the coup de grace.

82 posted on 08/21/2004 12:03:52 PM PDT by HateBill (John Kerry -- the only hope for suicidal jihadists.)
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To: puroresu

McCain tries to play up to all sides. He is like O'Reilly in that approach. But with McCain it's to be loved. O'Reilly just wants good interviews! Both want to be media stars. Similar characters perhaps?


83 posted on 08/21/2004 12:04:12 PM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: dawn53

I just saw this new Kerry ad; it's disgusting.

John McCain better denounce it.


84 posted on 08/21/2004 12:05:47 PM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: over3Owithabrain
McCain is a dick.

His campaign finance reform BS has given the rats a tremendous advantage and he's not done helping them yet.

Psycho ran a slash and burn campaign for the nomination in 2000, courting democrats to vote for him in GOP primaries.

Gore would have killed him in the general.

Traitor and dupe.

85 posted on 08/21/2004 12:08:22 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: Natural Law

My God, Bush had nothing to do with this! Bush allows the market place to work this out as he did with the Moore lies, Moveon.org, Sores and many more. He never allowed himself to go on the defensive. These guys are dredging up every trick to counteract the truth. Bush will keep above it and win!


86 posted on 08/21/2004 12:08:23 PM PDT by Old anti feminist
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To: All
Mommy Heinz!
Help!
Now my shipmates on the GRIDLEY
are attacking me.
OOPS! I POOPED in my diaper again.
Mommy : Don't take my allowance away.
Mommy : Why does McCain still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He was a Vietnam Vet.
MOMMY; OOPS I Pooped again.
Mommy : Why did Hillary release FBI Files on me?
Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?



87 posted on 08/21/2004 12:08:56 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
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To: dawn53
They are illogical

If these cretins weren't out of their goddamned minds they wouldn't be Democrats in the first place.

88 posted on 08/21/2004 12:11:09 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: blake6900

Good afternoon.
McCain has painted himself into a corner. He and john kerry worked together to bury the pow/mia issue so that normalization with Vietnam could take place. That was part of the reason vets began to dislike him, along with his penchant for siding with the DemocRats too often.
He is also made to look foolish by the 527 controversy, what with CFR bearing his name.
McCain must either stand firm with President Bush or risk defeat in his next election.
Michael Frazier


89 posted on 08/21/2004 12:17:35 PM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender, no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok.)
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To: kattracks
We want to hear three words:
How about these three words?

Release your records.


This is the typically according to their playbooks!
Bill never released his medical report!!
Hillery put a seal on her college dissertation = (about her communist activities??)!!
90 posted on 08/21/2004 12:23:13 PM PDT by danamco
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To: over3Owithabrain

---The Swifties are ultimately going to help Kerry get elected.---

Kerry's already done. It's like the Titanic with the side ripped open. Many passengers think it can't sink, but it's sinking anyway.


91 posted on 08/21/2004 12:23:56 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: kattracks

How about these three words?

Release your records.


1 posted on 08/21/2004 11:14:56 AM PDT by kattracks
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Perhaps what Bush needs to do is run his own ad, First showing the Moveon.org George Soros Connection-then the Nazi ad they ran against Bush.

Then the Robert Byrd ad and the link between that ad and Friends of Algore version 3.4

Then show a shot of Military personel and state 'these Men Fought, were tortured and some died for the right to speak in this country without the Threat of Big Brother muzzling then.

John Kerry of all people should realize that. They have just as much right to speak their minds as John Kerry did when he testified in the Congress back in 71 about War crimes or when he was giving aid and comfort to the Enemy when he Met with the North Vietnamese in Paris while 270,000 Americans were still in country. Including some that were being tortutred to agree with Kerry's testimony.'


92 posted on 08/21/2004 12:25:52 PM PDT by Area51 (RINO Hunter, Big Time)
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To: kattracks

Um, wasn't Kerry a member of the SwiftVets and went to the reunion?


93 posted on 08/21/2004 12:26:36 PM PDT by OpusatFR (President Bush will win 2004.)
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To: claudiustg
Kerry's already done. It's like the Titanic with the side ripped open. Many passengers think it can't sink, but it's sinking anyway.

Really? Did you see the vote total already? Which poll(s) are you referring to? Did Bush get in the mid-50s + in approval? Yeah, that's the attitude we need now - Kerry is done. Just like Clinton was done for 8 years and Gore was a cakewalk. FReepers continue to make the mistake that everyone else in voterland thinks like we do. Flame me all you want - this Swiftie thing is going to help Kerry ultimately.
94 posted on 08/21/2004 12:26:46 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: dawn53

" The reason I think they're hurting Kerry is that his campaign mode has become "illogical".

People in a panic are usually illogical.

Every day I say to myself- Didn't anybody vett this guy ?

Didn't anybody in the Democrat party bother to just read some of the interviews Kerry had given over the years ?

They were filled with inconsistencies and there were so many red flags about Kerry- I find it incredible that not one person in the Democrat Party picked up on this.
Or maybe they did ( ahem- Bill and Hillary ) and hoped that the rest of the party would be so lazy,so ignorant or so desperate-they would chose Kerry ,anyway.
I bet there is a lot of finger pointing going on behind the scenes at the DNC- " Whose idea was it anyway to pick this loser ?? "
And then I see the Chappaqua Chesire Cats smiling.

Interesting theory about some new nugget in Unfit For Command.
Every page of my book is underlined and filled with notes in the margin.
I have found that each page is a revelation and uncovers another aspect of the story we didn't previously know about.
I was stunned by the cumulative effect of Kerry's lies, fabrications and fantasies.

"John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I, and many of my comrades in North Vietnam,
in the prison camps,
took torture to avoid saying."
Paul Galanti,7 year POW , Hanoi Hilton


95 posted on 08/21/2004 12:31:01 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue ( Kerry eats Cuckoo Puffs for breakfast .)
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To: Publius6961

ha


96 posted on 08/21/2004 12:31:45 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: OpusatFR

"Um, wasn't Kerry a member of the SwiftVets and went to the reunion?"

"Unfit For Command," Pages 3-4 :

The Swift Boat veterans gather for a 30 year reunion in 2003.
Three hundred attend.
Master of ceremonies, Dan Daly introduces various dignitaries present, to polite applause.
Daly introduces Swiftees to rousing applause and cheers.
Daly goes to microphone to signal out Senator John Kerry for recognition-dead silence follows.
Daly, embarrassed said " I guess I laid an egg with that one."

Earlier, Kerry had arrived to the reunion, with an entourage- a film crew, a corps of directors and assistants.

" Pushing aside various Swiftees, Kerry positioned himself dockside so he could be filmed on the restored PCF that was the centerpiece of the reunion."
"As was his habit, Kerry ignored many of his fellow Swiftees."
Kerry asked for volunteers for his video-most declined.
After filming the video, Kerry and his entourage left

" not bothering to attend a memorial service for the Swiftees who had died in Vietnam."


97 posted on 08/21/2004 12:35:24 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue ( Kerry eats Cuckoo Puffs for breakfast .)
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To: kattracks
"Kerry Campaign Unfazed by Bush Attacks"

- Yeah, that's why Kerry cancelled his vacation, has spent an extra $500,000 in campaign ads and has his people suing and slandering everybody they can think of. (By the way, has anyone noticed that the MSM and Kerry's people are focusing everybody's attention on the Swift Boat medal controversy? Where has Kerry's Excellent Cambodian Adventure and his magic hat disappeared to, not to mention the POW charges which neither he nor Mc Cain have yet had anything to say about.
98 posted on 08/21/2004 12:36:19 PM PDT by finnigan2
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To: kattracks

John McCain was so poor a student pilot in flight training that his instructors tried to wash him out. They were forbidden to do so because his father was a fleet admiral in the U.S. Navy. The inevitable happened, his ineptitude led to losing his plane and becoming a prisoner in North Nam..


99 posted on 08/21/2004 12:36:45 PM PDT by hgro
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To: Soundman4x4

I see this as a non issue, Bush has already denounced ALL 527s. Why should he denounce just this truthful one and not the rest of them? The Democrats and their MSM lackeys are clutching at straws here trying to save the Kerry campaign.


100 posted on 08/21/2004 12:37:46 PM PDT by jospehm20
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