Whining Republicans Out Fund-Raised By 527 Orgs, Using Old Barb-- Emotional Instability Accusations

OpEdNews.com ^ | August 21, 2004 | Rob Kall

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They’re at it again, the right wing creeps who are happy to smear democrats, and even their own, like John McCain, are now one of their slimeballs, former Gov. Mark Racicot is suggesting that Kerry is losing it, that he’s wild-eyed, irresponsible.... Scott McClelland says Kerry is "losing his cool., should not be an excuse to lash out at the president with false and baseless attacks."

Atrios quotes Racicot describing Kerry."I think they have comepletely unhinged..." and suggests that they used the same strategies, in 2000 to attack John McCain and to suggest he was unstable.

This labeling of a healthy fight-back response, or healthy emotional expression is what they did and encouraged their surrogate media whores in the networks to do when they played, hundreds of times, the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track.

For years, these sleazyoid right wingers have used thirty party organizations to attack from a distance. But now, the democrats, the left and progressives have outsmarted these whining, dirty-trickster liars. More money has been raised on the left than on the right. So all of a sudden,

the right wing is whining an calling legal 527 PACs that run ads "Shadowy organizations." Well geez, these lower than whale shit right wing liars invented the third party sponsored attack ads. Hell, Bush won the primary by allowing the same people funding and putting together the weasel liar swift boat attack ads to create ads attacking John McCain.

But I want to talk about the way toxic right wingers attempt to label, calssify, profile democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic.

You see it again and again.

There may even be a smidgeon of truth to it. But I see it from a different perspective. A major percentage of right wingers are repressed, control freaks. They not only want to be tight-assed, they want to control everyone else’s sphincters too.

In my world, expression of a reasonable range of emotion is good. It’s healthy. But the anal control freaks who seem to think they represent normal people have grabbed this idea that they can attack democrats who express emotion, and they can use suggestions that democrats are emotionally unstable, too easily angered, even crazy.

But let’s look at how these sphincter police control their presidential pep rallies. They only allow people who sign loyalty oaths in to see the president. The set up pathetic questions that pander to the fundies (fundamentalists) and extremists who make up the base of Bush’s re-election hopes. They encourage cheering when Bush bashes Kerry and when Bush or set-up questioners talk religious pablum/prattle. They are afraid to allow protesters, afraid to allow the un-decided, afraid to face hecklers. The main emotions the Bush people manifest are fake enthusiasm pumped up by fake stump question and answer groups, and.... fear, fear, fear and more fear.

The strange thing is that Bush and his people have been working fear for years-- to sell guns and resistance to gun control. to sell the fear of terrorism... and now it’s clear that under their sales strategy, under their use of fear to keep their base controlled, they are fearful. No, that’s not strong enough. They are gutless cowards. Bush in particular is apparently the most spineless of the bunch, afraid to face up to reporters, even crowds of ordinary Americans. I don’t know why his sycophants and fundie supporters see him as a strong leader, able to combat terrorism. He’s missing two basic ingredients of a strong leader-- the balls to face the people.

But it’s not just fear. Recently, an Irish reporter didn’t let up on him when he tried to evade her serious questions with weak banter. He was outraged and complained about her. Talk about fragile. Then, more recently, he was asked questions about his connections with Enron president Tom Ken Lay, and he got so angry he walked off the stage. A few days later, word in washington was that he was taking antidepressants and maybe tranquilizers.

So let’s talk about emotions. Kerry may be a bit justifiably pissed at Bush and his scum-sucking, lying Viet Nam vets who have sold out the honor of all veteran’s medals to take down Kerry for Bush’s and Karl Rove’s long time friend and funder Bob Perry, who’s primarily paying for the ads. I think that’s healthy. But Bush bouts of anger, his chronic no-balls attitude towards facing Americans who have something to say that he doesn’t want to hear makes him a big fat loser. I think this is something to tell the people you meet-- that Bush is a coward, that they are supporting a spineless coward, afraid to face the people, and while we’re at it, he’s the most hated and despised person in the history of the world.

The attacks on Kerry’s military record and his emotional health are good ol’ fashioned attack ad politics. Add that up with the constant barrage of lies and you have the primary strategy of the Bush campaign-- lies about Kerry, about the economy, about ecology and stepping on the souls of fundies who have been manipulated into a political corner with social wedge issues .

One presidential spokeswoman, Nicole Devenish, another blonde liar (Anne Coulter is one of many iconic vapid, lying, whorish blonde republican spokeswomen,) of the Bush/Cheney campaign, says that the Bush campaign is not even sure that the swift boat vets ad will help the Bush campaign. This, vapidly idiotic remark, of course is aimed at the handful of Bush-morons who have not yet learned that Fox is the official, approved Bush station. EvenLou Dobbs smirks and tells her he doesn’t think so.

But the talking heads for Bush aren’t trying to convince the anchors or the left. They’re working on the vulnerable independents, perhaps the ones who are themselves uncomfortable expressing emotion, perhaps those who don’t know the difference between hearty, energetic enthusiasm and manic insanity, between reasonable anger and intemperate childish impatience will support Bush. But more and more, all the machinations of the republican attack machine are being seen for what they are-- cynical, dishonest, expecting the least and worst from Americans.... But things are going to change.

This was written about eight hours before leaving, at 3:30 AM for a long needed, well deserved vacation. So I apologize for the nastiness and invective that I allowed into this article-- not to the targets of the invective, but to you the reader, if you found it too ugly, intense or aggressive. My vacation should soften my intensity and hopefully I’ll be back to my usual brilliant metaphors and analogies, instead of this base nastiness. But I do admit, it felt good. Damn, Cheney’s had a bad influence on me.

Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor of www.OpEdNews.Com living in Bucks County , PA. He also runs the Winter Brain Conference where Attention Deficit “disorder” or “difference” is a primary them of the meeting. You can find over 150 additional articles by Rob Kall at this Archive

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***Although the ad makes it appear as if Kerry is recounting atrocities he witnessed, he in fact was reciting claims made by soldiers that year during an anti-war gathering in Detroit. "They had personally raped, cut off heads, cut off ears," he told senators.

Reflecting on those comments this year, Kerry said they were too harsh. "I think some of the language that I used was a language that reflected an anger. ... The words were honest, but on the other hand, they were a little bit over the top," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in April. *** Source

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Unfit for Command [Excerpt] Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable, young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.

………Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a speechwriter noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was a myth: a young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently needed, before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He porceeded to level his charges: [End Excerpt]

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I'm beginning to wonder how long this political theater was in the making.

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Kerry's World: Father Knows Best****……….As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism."……….***

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John Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by William Fulbright, in April 1971. Photo UPI

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New Swift Boat Ad

A frame grab shows Vietnam war-era Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier speaking during a television commercial over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry 's war record. Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission August 20, 2004 to force Republican critics to withdraw the ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks. Photo by Swiftvets.Com/Reuters

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers..."

- John F. Kerry (2 weeks from now)

[Tom_Busch]

I get the feeling that Rob Kall might indeed know a little something about emotional instability.

[Jim Robinson]

Ah, the poor babies. Looks like the SwiftVets are really getting to them.

[leadpenny]

A Faith Based Initiative for Bush (527) is on C-SPAN now. It is a news conference from yesterday.

[JoeSixPack1]

....he’s the most hated and despised person in the history of the world.

There goes my morning coffee!!!

[Watery Tart]

...the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track. Wha??

THAT'S your problem, C-Wife! There you go, sourcing stuff again....

[goldstategop]

They hate President Bush so much they're unhinged. And Robert Knoll has the chutzpah to lecture to us on "emotional stability?" ROFL

[loboinok]

I think that ole boy has only one oar in the water!
Sounds like a excellent candidate for prozac.

[The Wizard]

the vets hates Kerry.....maybe he should have thought about that before he started dating Jane Fonda

[The Wizard]

these cats really are coming unglued.

[smonk]

emotional instability has become a democrat trademark. after watching the likes of howie dean, al gore, and al sharpton, perhaps it's not quite outlandish for us to slap the "off his meds" label on kerry when he flipped out.

memo to john kerry - if you're elected president, people will say a lot worse.

[leadpenny]

Which "ole boy?"

[loboinok]

Kall

[Irishgirl]

They are truly out of their freaking minds.

[Fenris6]

OMG. I hope this guy is getting psychiatric help.

[dennisw]

LOL! I had only heard the new Swift Boat advertisment. THe visuals look fantastic on that!

A frame grab shows Vietnam war-era Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier speaking during a television commercial over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry 's war record. Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission August 20, 2004 to force Republican critics to withdraw the ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks. Photo by Swiftvets.Com/Reuters

[leadpenny]

They seemed pretty clear in their support of the Prez's Faith Based Initiative.

[JoeSixPack1]

Rat emotional stability is measured on the Richter scale. This article gets a 2+. :-)~

[leadpenny]

I think we are talking about two different things. I was watching a News Conference held yesterday at the Press Club.