Posted on 11/05/2004 8:29:01 AM PST by truthandlife
As the Kerry campaign disintegrates into oblivion, the finger pointing in the Democratic ranks has already begun.
The New York Post's must-read Page Six reports that numbers of notable figures in the 2004 campaign are being roasted by party insiders.
These include:
# Alexandra Kerry: The paper said John Kerry's daughter "made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last spring when she appeared on the red carpet in a see-through dress."
Campaign "insiders snipe that all she did was rack up major expenses. 'She had an entourage of five people with her everywhere she went.' A hairdresser, makeup artist, publicist and two assistants. It ended up costing something like $8,000 a month. And she didn't exactly do anything."
# Sean Puffy Combs: The rap mogul made national headlines with his "Vote or Die" effort to get young voters to register and vote. But they never materialized at the polls.
"He was just a nuisance," the Post quotes one Kerry aide as saying. "The whole thing was a joke. No one outside of New York or L.A. gives a hoot about this guy. All he did was get himself press."
# Terry McAuliffe and Bill Clinton: The Post says Clinton and his top fundraiser who heads the Democratic party caused the disaster. The Post has reported that some analysts say Clinton's emergence in the closing days of the campaign "energized" the Republican base.
I don't suppose the candidates should take any blame! I'm loving every minute of the back stabbing by the dems...what might be left of them will not be there by the end of next week!
democrats won't think about that. Their ability to think rationally is marginal at best. Unless the get rid of the top echelon of their party they will stay in the same stupor, mired in the false belief that clinton is something other than power mad sex maniac. They'll fall into line behinde the former Prime Witch and do whatever the clintons tell them to do.
And pass up the opportunity to harass other White House interns?
No way. Bubba wants to move back into the WH.
You know something? I agree with those insiders. I'm glad they are were so influential during the campaign.
"LOL....I heard on the radio this a.m. that Sean "Puff Daddy, Puffy, P-Diddy, Vote or Die" Combs didn't vote himself....he was, uh, too busy."
That's just like him. He was probably busy making sure his "baby's momma" got her $35,000/month child support. He makes me sick. I can't wait til my generation wises up to these fools. Glad I did!
Yeah. What's up with that dress? They splashed photos of the slut with her boobs exposed -- and then criticized the Bush girls for drinking in college? Clueless! Will they EVER get it?
Well, they have this one correct!
Thanks to Chelsea Clinton for showing her little ugly mug to the public again.
PhiKapMom wrote:
ROFLOL!!! I love it -- Clinton gets some of the blame for energizing Republicans. What do they think a Hillary candidacy would do?
Children and arrogant elitists.
John Kerry and John Edwards are responsible for this loss. Nobody else.
Wouldn't it be ironic if say, in the next few days, he gets the Tupac or Biggie treatment?
Terry McAuliffe and Bill Clinton: The Post says Clinton and his top fundraiser who heads the Democratic party caused the disaster. The Post has reported that some analysts say Clinton's emergence in the closing days of the campaign 'energized' the Republican base."
Well, they have this one correct!
AMEN!
A prime target of the finger-pointers is Kerry's filmmaker daughter Alexandra, who made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last spring when she appeared on the red carpet in a see-through dress. She then hired a pricey publicist at powerhouse agency PMK — on her dad's dime, sources say — and went on the campaign trail.
But insiders snipe that all she did was rack up major expenses. "She had an entourage of five people with her everywhere she went," one Kerry confidant sniffed to PAGE SIX's Jared Paul Stern. "A hairdresser, makeup artist, publicist and two assistants. It ended up costing something like $8,000 a month. And she didn't exactly do anything."
"These accusations are categorically false," Alexandra's rep retorts. "The campaign is accountable to taxpayers and would never pay for anything inappropriate. And the candidates' children would never be sent on the campaign trail by themselves."
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Meanwhile, TV pundit George Stephanopoulos says Kerry's main problem was a failure to connect with the common man. Speaking at Women's Wear Daily's CEO summit at the Ritz Carlton in Battery Park City yesterday, Stephanopoulos cracked, "He has seven houses, is married to a billionaire and has French relatives."
Of course, a fair amount of bile is being directed at Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz, while others blame the fact that Kerry did not get rid of Bill Clinton loyalist Terry McAuliffe as Democratic National Committee chairman despite his top advisers' wishes.
McAuliffe was seen as too loyal to Clinton, who is also being fingered as a detrimental influence. As The Post's Vince Morris reported yesterday, some analysts say Clinton actually "energized" the Republicans. Of course, the same experts said Al Gore would have won four years ago if he had only used Clinton more on the hustings.
You can add a photo of Yassir to this montage.
John Kerry and John Edwards are responsible for this loss. Nobody else.
We flushed the JOHNs, yessssss!!
See, Yassir didn't vote, now look at him. Maybe Puffy was right after all.
i saw puffy on tv last night and thought he was rather gracious about it, siad people need not to be sore loosers and that it wasnt until late in the campaign that he realized that a non-partisan approach would have been better...
of course its all after the fact..but its more than any of the other hollywood half wits said.
Journalism is supposed to be reporting what the reporter sees when they see it. They are not writing a private diary where they can decide when to tell parts of what they know when they feel like it.
You know what this tells me? This tells me there is a HUGE hole in the media market for people that just tell the facts ma'am. And somebody can make money off of that.
What we have today are professional liars....
I blame the hamster. He should have just let it drown.
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