Bush Planning August Attack Against Kerry

[shawn703]

President Bush's campaign plans to use the normally quiet month of August for a vigorous drive to undercut John Kerry by turning attention away from his record in Vietnam to what they described as an undistinguished and left-leaning record in the Senate.

Mr. Bush's advisers plan to cap the month at the Republican convention in New York, which they said would feature Mr. Kerry as an object of humor and calculated derision.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/politics/campaign/01CAMP.html?hp

[Trajan]

1. Attack !

ATTACK ! ....

What happened to staying positive ? ....

Wont the american people be offended ? ...

[lottie244]

17. That's all they understand. Better for them to plan to thwart any Aaugust

attacks that might be coming our way. At least according to them Al-qaeda is planning to attack us from not until November. Boogey-Boo!

[Birthmark]

2. I don't understand.

Why doesn't Bush just run on his OWN record? I mean, conSERRRRvatives are constantly telling me that Bush is one of the great Presidents in American History. Surely such a statesman can run on his accomplishments, can't he?

[reprobate]

23. My responce to them is always loud laughter. Really pisses them off

[qanda]

3. An object of humor and calculated derision...

Were they NOT listening over the past week? People are tired of that crap. They can laugh all they want, and November 2, we'll see who gets the last laugh.

[Doosh]

29. guess we'll see more of kerry at nasa

[Blue Gardener]

35. Typical schoolyard bully behavior

They don't have a record to run on, or anything intelligent to add to the campaign, so they resort to bully tactics. I wish the wingnuts could see through this.

[Snoggera]

4. The adults

had better reconsider. They may end up looking like the childish, foolish people that they are.

"an object of humor and calculated derision." could backfire big time. This is the presidential campaign, not a pilot for a new reality series on tv.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Excerpt from Kerry campaign e-mail I received today:

"Once again, it's you who have convinced me that this is a campaign we can win -- no matter how many forces are assembled against us. When I decided to run for president almost a year ago, I never imagined how big this campaign would become -- or how determined people like you would be to stand up to George Bush and lead America in a new direction. George Bush has raised $220 million dollars -- for his primary campaign alone. He spent most of that money to try to mislead Americans about my record and my life."

So Dubya 'n' Karl 'n' Karen can keep acting like the little smug thugs that they are...little schoolyard bullies...and it WILL "backfire big time."

[Rose Siding]

5. Grown ups will be grown ups

:eyes:

[MO_Dem]

6. I say "Bring it on"

Their last batch of negative ads didn't get them anywhere, and they spent lots of bucks doing it. I think if they do the same thing again, it will hurt them and help us!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Protestors

at NYC can show the RNC who deserves humor and derision....

[Pepperbelly]

8. How is this late breaking news?

:D

[Toots]

9. This is the most shocking thing I've heard in a decade

Republicans going to get nasty and negative. Say it ain't so......

[Massacure]

10. Didn't Bush Snr implode after trying to brutally bash Clinton in 92?

As the ol' saying goes: "Like father, like son."

[Cocoa]

11. "He has 20 lost years"

"He has 20 lost years," Mr. Dowd said. "It's amazing."

A Bush aide talking about lost years? Where was Bush in '72 and '73?

[Gloria]

14. Jon Stewart, in doing the takeoff of the Kerry video, had a bit where

it describes how Kerry went to the Senate, while Bush was in an "alcohol-induced haze" until the age of 40....

Might be a good idea to be prepared with some little ditties about Bush's
"lost years"--not necessarily the drunk years, but the last 20 years as he messed around with Arbusto and Harken, for example. Or how he robbed Texans of land so he could build the Rangers' stadium....

[MODemocrat]

49. Yeh, and that's hardly the tip of t he iceburg

The things he's done are hardly fool-hardy, most of them have been very serious matters. It might just come back in his face when Kerry gets through with him.

[madaboutharry]

12. The other day, Randi Rhodes said

the republicans act like a bunch of 11-year olds. She has that right. Bush and people like Ed Gillespi and Tucker Carlson remind me of some of the kids I used have to ride with on the school bus. I swear, don't you all remember them? The kids who used to make all the overweight kids and kids with glasses or braces or curly hair or freckles miserable. Who would have known they all grew up to be republican operatives? Just look at Ed Gillespi and you know what he was like in high school. They haven't changed.

[PCIntern]

13. If a guy like Tucker made anyone miserable

`on my block, they'd have put his upper jaw on the top of the curb, his lower jaw on the side, and kicked him in the back of the head, thus shattering his teeth. Weenies like him weren't allowed to torture us, only the big hot-shots (now selling used cars and life insurance disguised as financial planning). He's just a wimpy girly-man in his bow-tie and prissy antics.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

19. 100% correct. Tucker most likely had his lunch money stolen DAILY.

This is not the face of a bully, folks:



This is "a bucket of chum" that you throw overboard when you want bullies to swim up to your boat.

[madaboutharry]

21. I remember creeps like this,

the ones who were afraid themselves, picking on the girls who everyone else thought were nerds. They just sought out those they thought were even weaker than themselves. I should have lived in your neighboorhood.

[Jawja]

38. Tucker and Gillespie

were the kids that were made FUN OF and bullied. That's why they are so dispicable now. They are getting their revenge through their arrested development, as they were never able to get over being picked on.

[leftchick]

44. Garry Trudeau expressed that sentiment very well in Rollingstone....

He describes his time spent with * while at Yale. He says ...

"He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable. He was very good at all the tools for survival that people developed in prep school- sarcasm, and the giving of nicknames. He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly place humilliation."

[Demeter]

15. I Tried To Imagine Using "Bush" and "Plan" in Same Sentence

But I couldn't get my fingers to bend properly. Don't think it's possible.

[goforit]

18. Hmmmm........Is it the big NYC terrorist threat he's committing?

Attack on NYC is like an ATTACK on Kerry!!!

[Mr.Green93]

20. Bush about to be run over by a truck

license number 527

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. This is a VERY dumb move on the part of the GOP. I like it!!

[lancdem]

24. That was my first reaction

[Beetwasher]

30. Yup! I LOVE THIS! Hahahahahahahahah!

The dumb dull witted morons! Ha Ha!

[koopie57]

25. my son's karate teacher

tells them at least once a week -- A strong person helps build others up to feel good about himself; a weak person has to tear others down to feel good about themselves.

I hope that Kerry doesn't stoop to that level. I think that is why everyone was so happy with Edwards, he is always positive. I don't remember him ever saying anything ugly. And Kerry has so much going for him. I hope he responds to some of the ugly things, but in a grown up and calm, smart, intelligent humorous way. I hope he doesn't get too frustrated. Dealing with this administration is like dealing with that brick thrower guy from the andy griffin show.

[0007]

26. CNN poll tell it all

Did Sen. Kerry's acceptance speech make the case that he is presidential material?
Yes
90%
6527 votes

No
9%
634 votes

Undecided
1%
80 votes
Total: 7241 votes

[shawn703]

34. Where was that poll? nt

[0007]

40. CNN

[actappan]

27. Bush's Strategy

It seems to me that a man who's accomplishments include being the figurehead owner of a baseball team, the shortimer governor of a state with a weak gubernatorial seat, and a couple of failed congressional campaigns prior to being "elected" president - has very little business criticizing the record of a long term senator (junior though he may be).

That being said, the Bushies' strategy may actually be a sound one. While I know my grandmother can't name one thing Kerry's done in the Senate - she knows that Bush is president, and that crashcart was SoD.

Perhaps the Kerry campaign might step up the discussion of Kerry's ideals, his congressional record, and the"Kerry/Edwards Plan" might get some publicly mentioned details . . . I mean, I already know that Kerry fought in Viet Nam, and at this point, so does everyone else.

[Doosh]

28. ahhh, such optimism from the sunshine republicans

fucking slimballs

[sheelz]

32. Check out New Bush A

www.georgebush.com Is this a joke?

[wabeewoman]

42. Talk about running

on nothing!! What exactly did the ad say bush could do for us besides continue to tell us what a big bad world we live in?? That's the thing about anything he says about Kerry-he is certainly no one to talk!

[amandabeech]

31. In August, people will go on vacation or watch the Olympics.

I wonder how many undecided voters want to hear Kerry bashing between Olympic events or while they're driving to the Grand Canyon, etc., or just trying to get the kids ready for school?

I think that the Kerry folks should come up with a nice, simple, easy ad for the Olympics.

Have the Kerry and Edwards families with a large group of staffers on risers behind them. Dress them all in "Olympic" gear and red-white-and-blue.

"I'm John Kerry and I approved this ad" with a photo of Kerry doing some sport.

then . . .

"Good luck to all U.S. Olympic athletes from all of us at the Kerry/Edwards campaign. We'll be rooting for you. USA! USA! USA!" then loud clapping and cheering.

Only play it a few times to let people know you're still around and thinking about normal things as well as campaigning.

Let Bush go negative and be all serious when no one else is. He'll look like a jerk.

Leave the heavy-duty stuff for closer to the Rethug convention--if they hold one. The way it looks this evening they all just might want to phone in their votes from an undisclosed location.

[PittPoliSci]

33. you gotta be kidding me?

undistinguished?

BULL FUCKING SHIT

[cosmicone]

37. Not to be taken lightly

Remember Dukakis?

Remember the Willie Horton and Boston Harbor commercials that played between the two conventions destroying Dukakis?

I hope the DNC and organizations like moveon.org can counter Bush during August or Bushco will define Kerry even before the campaign begins in September.

[VolcanoJen]

36. Kick

:dem:

[blueknight]

39. THEY HAVE TO ATTACK...

they cant run on their record

[proud patriot]

41. Gosh their whole campaign has been nothing but negativity

and attacks .

[CBHagman]

43. Notice how Bush always has to be snotty, derisive and contemptuous

Basically, he CAN'T take the high road. It shows a lot about his character, huh?

When Kerry was doing his professional duty, Bush was drifting, personally and professionally. HE CANT'T GET AROUND THAT.

[Neverarepublican]

45. What elese can they do?

How about planning to figure out what to do in Iraq instead of just mud slinging?

[The Animator]

46. I was picked on a lot when I was a kid...

And into my early years as an adult I was very timid, and polite.

However I've spent the past eight years of my life working in Theme Parks, as a result, I've advanced the skill of sarcasm into an art form.

I wish Bush would try that shit with me... His tounge would be wiggling through his ears and, he'd be wearing his own ass as a hat by the time I was through with him.

[shawmut]

47. Bush planning a March attack and April attack and a May attack

and a June attack and a July attack and an August attack. There's a pattern here.



Let's try to make the voters dislike Kerry so much that they might actually re-elect our guy!

[MODemocrat]

48. Bushgang will resort to Anything for distraction

That's so typical of the right wingers. They certainly can't run on their own records so they try to blight their opponents. As far a humor goes, golly, there are all kinds of comedy encompassing Bush.
In fact, he's a laughing stock!