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Defending, defining the Grand Old Party By FRANCIS BROADHURST One of the unfunny jokes in America today is the silliness of anti-Republicans and George Bush bashers trying to define the GOP and tell the president what he must do to win re-election. Offerings range from dumping Dick Cheney to caving in to blackmail by some of America's most untrustworthy allies like France. Mr. Bush should hire a food taster or these guys may poison him. Pro-Bush advocates define opponent John Kerry in a way that drives the left bonkers. The left ignores negative ads against President Bush but negative ads...

A poll question asks: "Do you think the negative book on John Kerry will hurt his campaign?" I know my answer.

We know that the Dems are planning to continue to politically attack the president. They are using their 527's to spend in excess of $400 million dollars to attack the President. They are also vigorously attacking the SwiftVets using Legal Terrorism This is the Big Time, Freepers. This is the time when WE must step up and support. This is not yet the march in the streets we did in Florida and outside of Dick Cheney's house in 2000. This is a battle where the mainstream media are taking their marching orders directly from the DNC. They are going to...

Last week, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry returned to September 11, 2001. He criticized President Bush for remaining in an elementary school classroom 7 minutes after the president had been told a plane had struck the second World Trade Center tower. Mr. Kerry said, had he been president at the time, "I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to."

August 11, 2004 Release of: Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates 703-684-4510 “Swift Boat “controversy” gets Voters’ attention and nicks Kerry” ALEXANDRIA, VA – Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates (FMA), a Republican polling and strategic consulting firm based in Alexandria, VA, has just completed their second likely voter survey with interviews conducted ONLY in the 19 battleground states. The battleground states are defined as those in which the Bush and Kerry campaigns have been focusing their paid media efforts throughout the campaign. Nearly 6 in 10 likely voters claim that they that they recently saw, read or heard something about the TV ad...

Dear Oxen, I'm interrupting John Kerry's dispatches from the road to tell you about something that will make you angry, but which is important for you to hear. We knew it was coming: the Bush campaign and several allied right-wing groups are using August to launch a vicious smear attack against John Kerry. They think we're vulnerable this month because while George Bush is still able to raise money for attack ads, Kerry had to stop fundraising at the Democratic convention last week. They're taking this opportunity to go for the jugular. We need you to join us in this...

PAT BUCHANAN, GUEST HOST: Is John Kerry unfit for command? That's what John O‘Neill says. He is the Naval officer who took over command of Kerry‘s swift boat in Vietnam. His new book claims Kerry is no war hero at all, that he didn‘t deserve his Purple Hearts, Bronze Star or Silver Star, and that he committed acts bordering on treason in wartime. John O'Neill is here to tell all for his first interview on MSNBC.

I’ve been receiving a lot of queries lately about things that did or did not happen during the time John Kerry and I served together in the Navy. I’ve also received large quantities of reading material, mostly email and mostly unpersuasive, from people attempting to trash, for political purposes, his relatively brief combat service in Swift boats. I have also declined offers to join groups attempting to discredit him on the basis of his naval service. As I have previously written, Kerry and I served together in USS Gridley (DLG 21) in 1967 and 1968. Gridley was a new guided...

On October 14, 1979, John Kerry described a remarkable event from his days as a Swift boat officer for the Boston Herald: "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon [sic] claimed there were no American troops was very real." -- President Nixon, of course, did not assume office until January of 1969. On March 27, 1986, during a speech opposing President Reagan's policy...

Among many other things mentioned on Scarborough Country, O'Neill said that some of the Swiftboat Vets became physically ill watching Kerry at the convention. Watching Kerry dancing around pretending to be a war hero was too much for them.

Kerry Camp Defends Tale of Xmas Mission to Island of Misfit ToysWashington, DC - Aides to presidential candidate John Kerry today dismissed as "obscene libel" and "preposterous lies" a new book that questions Kerry's service during the Vietnam War. Written by a group of veterans who served with Kerry during his 4-month tour, "Misfit For Duty: John F. Kerry's Christmas Turkey" claims that Kerry embellished his war exploits, including a clandestine mission to the Arctic ocean on Christmas Eve 1968 to assassinate a rogue island of misfit toys. Democratic spokesman Lanny Davis ripped the book as "unvarnished lies straight from...

Have been following the SwiftVets for some time and made it a special point to watch their initial press conference in Washington. Also sent them a fair sum of money. It is hard to tell how successful this will be. However, I think the naysayers are wrong! We need to press on for several reasons and support the Swift Vets with everything we can. The reasons are many: 1. Kerry is the one who made his Vietnam service the hallmark of his campaign. 2. The SwiftVets have every right to be heard by their service and blood. 3. The Dems...

Hume looks to be going after the story. Asking ALL the right questions. Basically the main topic was whether the other Swift Boat people would have been considered as "serving" with John Kerry. Lt Col Bill Cowan who served on a Swift Boat said "Absolutely!" In FACT, someone on another boat might be able to BETTER see what was going on on Kerry's boat than the men on the boat themselves because they have a panoramic view of the scene.

Is John F. Kerry Fit to Serve? - The SWIFT Boat Saga By Jennifer King August 9, 2004 Fast and furious, the rounds have been coming in. Two days ago, a group calling itself "SWIFT Boat Veterans For Truth" (www.swiftvets.com) put out a devastating advertisement about John Kerry's record in Vietnam. The SWIFT boat veterans are all men who served alongside John Kerry during his four month tenure in Vietnam. Among other charges, the SWIFT boat veterans allege: John Kerry was reckless and did not follow orders. Kerry was personally responsible for shooting a fleeing Vietnamese soldier in the back....

Let me get this straight. When military veterans want to speak out about their Vietnam War experiences, they are threatened with legal action, but when a Hollywood slob makes a highly suspect "documentary" ridiculing the president of the United States, he is honored for his work. Since the release of Michael Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9/11," we have heard nothing but cheers from liberal politicos, the major media, and Hollywood entertainment moguls. Cries of foul from conservatives about the brazen Bush-bashing have fallen on deaf ears as far as the mainstream media. Now that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth want to...

John Kerry's claim that he was ordered to conduct an illegal combat mission in Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1968 is made up, Navy vets charge in a new book. The veterans say Kerry "would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialed had he gone there." Three of the vets quoted in the book were part of the five-member crew that served on Kerry's own boat: Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch and Steve Gardner. They deny they or their boat were ever in Cambodia. The other two crewmen declined to be interviewed for the book, "Unfit for Command," which raises questions about...

A startling new book charges that John Kerry accidentally "wounded himself in the buttocks" in Vietnam with a grenade he exploded, then lied to get a medal by saying he had received the injury rescuing one of his crewmen. The book, "Unfit for Command," was released yesterday by Regnery publishers and presents the biggest challenge yet to Kerry's decorated war-record. Based on the accounts of numerous vets, the explosive book claims Kerry's rescue under fire of Jim Rassman — an action that earned Kerry his third Purple Heart and a Bronze Star — didn't happen the way the Democratic nominee...

UPDATE: AMAZON JOINS ATTACK ON SWIFTVETS G. Andrew Duthie of Duthie on... alerted me to more bookseller shenanigans - this time from Amazon. Andrew notes: it's apparent that B&N isn't the only place with employees who have it in for Unfit for Command...it's not very popular with the folks at Amazon.com where they've snipped parts of McCain's statement on the SwiftVet's ad and labeled it an "Editorial Review" Check out the lead Editorial Review for Unfit for Command - quick before they take it down! Editorial Reviews Senator John McCain "Dishonest and dishonorable... none of these individuals served on the...

Lanny Davis took up the mantle for the Kerrytistas tonight on Hannity & Colmes and appeared to be approaching the danger zone where one might be close to being legally liable for libel or slander. Lanny is a lawyer and careful enough with his own rhetoric that he knows where the line is but is certainly on the verge of coming close to crossing it. The honorable SwiftVets' legal representation appears to be viable in responding to previous attempts to distort their story, at least in their swift (pun intended) denunciation of the Boston Globe reporter misquote. I don't believe...

Unfit for Command' Co-author Jerome Corsi: Not just Anti-Kerry; Media Matters for America Documents Bigoted, Inflammatory Comments To: National Desk, Media Reporter Contact: Naomi Seligman of Media Matters for America, 202-756-4108 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America (MMFA) today documented and disclosed inflammatory comments by Jerome R. Corsi, co-author of the anti-Kerry book 'Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (news - web sites)' with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth founder John E. O'Neill. Corsi's offensive online comments reveal his active participation in discussions on FreeRepublic.com, a far-right website. The book, published...