MoveOver Swifties:New 527 Exposes Kerry's "Willie Horton" Moment/Estrich has Carville "Wah!" Moment

The Blogspirator ^ | Friday, September 03, 2004 | adam_az

[adam_az]

The Blogspirator was researching an upcoming exclusive story by trolling a well-known Democrat message board and came across a different story about a new 527 organization run by a Stephen Marks, a Republican political consultant. His ads are likely to open a new saga in the ongoing 527 debates. Two new ads to be released next week on Tues. September 7.

The new 527 organization is creatively named MoveOnForAmerica.org.

One ad discusses Kerry's involvement as a private attorney in securing the release of George Reissfelder, an escapee of Massachussetts notorious furlough program. He had tried to kill a police officer, and after Kerry got him off the hook, continued his life of crime as part of a mafia drug ring. It draws a parallel with Dukakis Furlough Superstar Willie Horton, and points out that Kerry was Lt. Governor under Dukakis.

The other ad covers Kerry's connection with Al Sharpton. It discusses Sharptons colorful past including blaming the US for the September 11th attacks, calling Hitler a "great man, video of him urging college students to kill police,"pigs" as Sharpton called them, the mob of his followers who burned a white (the ad leaves out that they were Jewish) owned cloting store called "Freddys Fashions" killing seven, and his calling the owners of the store "white interlopers" for daring to do business in Harlem.

It leaves out other colorful Sharpton moments such as the Crown Height riots, the Tawana Brawley incident, comparing Attorney General Robert Abrams, a Jew, to Adolf Hitler, Mario Cuomo to the KKK, or his odd relationship with Michael Jackson. It also leaves out Al Sharpton and John Kerry's relationship with antisemite Arafat buddy Jesse Jackson who referred to New York as "Hymietown."

You can view the ads yourself at http://www.moveonforamerica.org/

Connecting the Dots

The Blogspirator has a long.... memory. In the 2000 political campaign, Stephen Marks, the founder of MoveOnForAmerica.org, ran a different group called "Americans Against Hate."

Americans Against Hate ran an ad ad that criticized Algore's support for Al Sharpton. It used the same Hitler is "a great man" quote and the same footage of Sharpton urging college students to kill police officers. Curiously, the connections come full circle since it was Algore who who first used Horton in a campaign ad against Dukakis in the '88 Democrat primaries.

The Blogspirator does not point this out as some sort of scandal that Marks has recycled his work... The real scandal is that high-ranking Democrats still associate with an amoeba like Sharpton.

For the record, The Blogspirator is opposed to all campaign finance "reform" regulation and also further regulation of any 527-type groups as unwarranted restrictions on first amendment rights. Candidates and parties shouldn't be the only ones allowed to voice their opinions!



The Blogspirator has wondered how long it would take for the Ghost of Dukakis Past to cast a long shadow over the 2004 Presidential race. It looks like that time is now upon us.

Dukakis campaign manager Susan Esterich wrote a what The Blogspirator believes is a prescient article called "Mad as Hell" on September 1, which is archived at (of all places) Newsmax.

She decries the ineffectiveness of the Kerry campaign at fending off the Swift Boat Vets, incorrectly calling their charges inaccurate half truths and smears. (Christmas in Scambodia, VC the Dog, and the first purple heart/journal incidents all come to mind as "true.")

As we pointed out in a previous article about John Kerry (Kerry's Freudian Projection is Showing), there is a psychological problem which precisely explains Democrat strategist thinking.

Freudian Projection: "A defense mechanism in which the individual attributes to other people impulses and traits that he himself has but cannot accept. It is especially likely to occur when the person lacks insight into his own impulses and traits."

You have to read her entire article yourself to fully appreciate what she says.

The Blogspirator believes that, in essence, Estrich is describing the upcoming planned Democrat scorched earth campaign. It's possible that the MoveOnForAmerica.org ads will be cited as a "cause" for the upcoming Democrat ads, but Estrich let the details slip before the Furlogh & Sharpton ads were even released.

Esterich wrote: (excerpted)

You have to fight fire with fire, mud with mud, dirt with dirt.

The trouble with Democrats, traditionally, is that we're not mean enough. Dukakis wasn't. I wasn't. I don't particularly like destroying people. I got into politics because of issues, not anger. But too much is at stake to play by Dukakis rules, and lose again.

Will it be the three, or is it four or five, drunken driving arrests that Bush and Cheney, the two most powerful men in the world, managed to rack up? (Bush's Texas record has been sealed. Now why would that be? Who seals a perfect driving record?)

After Vietnam, nothing is ancient history, and Cheney is still drinking. What their records suggest is not only a serious problem with alcoholism, which Bush but not Cheney has acknowledged, but also an even more serious problem of judgment. Could Dick Cheney get a license to drive a school bus with his record of drunken driving? (I can see the ad now.)

It has been said that in the worst of times, Kissinger gave orders to the military not to obey Nixon if he ordered a first strike. What if Bush were to fall off the wagon? Then what? Has America really faced the fact that we have an alcoholic as our president?

Or how about Dead Texans for Truth, highlighting those who served in Vietnam instead of the privileged draft-dodging president,

and ended up as names on the wall instead of members of the Air National Guard. I'm sure there are some mothers out there who are still mourning their sons, and never made that connection. It wouldn't be so hard to find them.

Or could it be George Bush's Former Female Friends for Truth. A forthcoming book by Kitty Kelly raises questions about whether the president has practiced what he preaches on the issue of abortion. As Larry Flynt discovered, a million dollars [ED - READ: SOROS] loosens lips. Are there others to be loosened?

Are you shocked? Not fair? Who said anything about fair? Remember President Dukakis? He was very fair. Now he teaches at Northeastern University. John Kerry has been very fair in dealing with the Swift Boat charges. That's why so many of my Democrat friends have decided to stop talking to the campaign, and start putting money together independently.

The arrogant little Republican boys who have been strutting around New York this week, claiming that they have this one won, would do well to take a step back. It could be a long and ugly road to November.

The Blogspirator predicts it's going to be a very ugly campaign, and that Estrich just laid out the Democrat campaign strategy. We will have much to write about. Oh, and please don't read anything into our using the words "ugly" and "Estrich" in the same sentence.

[gop_gene]

After some discussion, most of us have become very sceptical of that 527 -- they may well be a deliberate Dem attempt to discredit Republican 527-s, including the SwiftVets, by being so totally off the wall.

I don't believe any republican, that is, any republican that wants Bush to win, could even fathom running such an ad and think it would be a good thing. The dems and the press would use this to completely obliterate the Swift Boat issue and mire Bush in racial controversy. I can just hear it:

1988: Bush 41, Lee Atwater, Willie Horton ad
2004: Bush 43, Karl Rove, George Reissfelder

"They're doing it again!" We wouldn't hear the end of it. This stinks to high heaven.

[xm177e2]

Bragging about using Willie Horton in an ad? I love it!

Sharpton has to account for his misdeeds... if Dems complain about MOFA's ad, he can make a second (and maybe a third!) showing all of the other terrible things Sharpton has said/done over the years. Defending Al Sharpton will not be a winning political issue.

So, much like John Kerry has immunity from criticizing his senate record because he served in Vietnam, Dems will claim Sharpton is immune from criticism because he's black, and will throw out charges of "racism." Boo hoo.

[tame]

"They're doing it again!" We wouldn't hear the end of it. This stinks to high heaven,

I respectfully disagree. If the stuff is true, it would not be good for Kerry. There is nothing "racist" about showing a cop killer/would be killer as running free thanks to a lefty. The rats could try to spin it anyway they want. It would hurt Kerry if done right.

[gop_gene]

I personally don't think it's racist either, just because the criminal happens to be black. But it's just so easy for it to be construed and twisted that way. What worked in 1988 may not work in 2004, what with the changing demographics and insidious p.c. that has set in since then. Why run something like this when there are lots of other poison arrows at our disposal?

[FairOpinion]

"What worked in 1988 may not work in 2004"

I think this is exactly the point.

[tame]

Why run something like this when there are lots of other poison arrows at our disposal?

Because there are many swing voters who feel the way we do about the issue. I don't think this has any danger of swinging votes against Bush. The only ones who would be real offended were not at all likely to vote for Bush anyway.

The GOP were also scared of the swifty ads, but I KNEW they would hurt Kerry. You know the whole thing: People say they hate negative ads, but those ads (when grounded in truth) work.

Look, a black guy who tried to kill a cop is not going to get much sympathy (except from the lefties). And neither is Kerry if he's tied to the situation in a negative way.

If anything, I think it will bring up thoughts of Dukakis who is also from MA. I think This will have a subconscious morphing effect. Kerry/Dukakis, Kerry/Dukakis, Dukakis/loser, Dukakis/Kerry, Dukakis/Kerry/loser.

[HateBill]

Susan Estrich probably regrets writing that piece now. She pretty much calls Dick Cheney an active alcoholic.

The problem with Democrats is they think lightning can strike twice. They depressed the Republican vote in 2000 with the Bush DUI and now think they can do the same with Cheney's "alcoholism."

Trouble is, she leaked the strategy and so the element of surprise is gone. And Dick Cheney doesn't strike me as someone you would want for an enemy.

Susan has become totally unhinged.

[tame]

"What worked in 1988 may not work in 2004"

I think that, if this is true (big if), then it would work maybe even better than 1988. People are tired of this crap. The whole O.J. thing, etc., worked to get moany folks fed up with the judicial system letting off such obvious killers.

This would be just one more BIG NEGATIVE on top of so many others. That would chip away at Kerry's "favorability".

Again, it would have to be done right. But we don;t even know anything about the reliablility. This may all be mute.

[tame]

Susan has become totally unhinged.

You mean the frog lady who thought that Dukakis was better for our Republic than the GREAT Ronald Reagan?!?

[FairOpinion]

Take a look at the actual ads at the website.

I don't think they are very effective.

[tame]

COme to think of it, we need some ads which morph Kerry into Dukakis, and relate their history together. That's one thing that SHOULD be done, which has not been done so far--remind people of Dukakis/MASS/Kerry/lefty connection.

[SauronOfMordor]

Not mean enough? Comparing Bush to Hitler? Saying that Bush lied and concocted a war to get himself and his friends rich? Those are "nice" things to say?

I think what she means is that, if she was in charge, there would be blood in the streets, and she's frustrated that the Dem leadership has not called for a campaign of assassination against the Republicans. She's a loony

[tame]

Take a look at the actual ads at the website. I don't think they are very effective.

I'm having a problem viewing them. I may try again later.

[gop_gene]

I wasn't worried about the Swift Boat ads also. But anything that can be twisted into being racial politics is a more tricky, explosive situation in my view. Some independents/soft repubs might feel a guilt trip--that if they don't vote against it, they, by extension, are racist.

Oh well--if it works again, great, but if it doesn't, hope the worst it'll have is zero effect. Like the updated "Daisy" ad the dem side ran not long ago.

[jocon307]

"..the mob of his followers who burned a white (the ad leaves out that they were Jewish) owned cloting store called "Freddys Fashions" killing seven,..."

It needs to be remembered that none of the 7 people killed were white. They were all workers in the store. Most were black people. It was a great sin, and just another bunch of innocent lives that whose blood is on the hands of the left.

[Watery Tart]

Susan Estrogen sounds like she has her talking points written at DiminutiveUnderparts. What (self) hatred!

If anyone EVER implies that FOX is not fair and balanced, then why is she on every other time I tune in?



BTW, in my experience, I find that those who go on and on about "dry-drunk syndrome" and constantly must talk about what they consider to be abuse problems in others have serious substance-abuse issues themselves.

[longtermmemmory]

I do not think what he did as a PRIVATE attorney matters as much as what he did as a prosecutor.

BTW how long was he a prosecutor? Usually the prosecutor's office wants a two to three year comitment to hire you. There is generally no written rule but that is the understanding. If an attorney leaves early it is either they have a job offer of a life time OR they were "realease" from their agreement to remain for that amount of time. (ie they were a very bad/unskilled prosecutor)

[GailA]

BTT..but kerry's bro cameron said he prosecuted White-Collar crime in his live video bio.

[igoramus987]

I wasn't worried about the Swift Boat ads also. But anything that can be twisted into being racial politics is a more tricky, explosive situation in my view. Some independents/soft repubs might feel a guilt trip--that if they don't vote against it, they, by extension, are racist.

I agree. Hope they get rid of the Sharpton ad. We are leading and don't need to take any risks.

[Timeout]

I've been wondering.

Why do Dems need all these 527's when they've got 60 Minutes, Hardball and The Today Show to do their sliming for free?