It's tax day -- where's the party?!
[FReep "Flip Flop" Kerry - at the POST OFFICE on April 15?]-- snip --
"Neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night...
...shall stay these faithful Freepers.....from FReeping John "FLIP FLOP" Kerry on TAX DAY!
RonDog and FRiends outside the post office near LAXCLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
and called it his AMMO BELT!:>)Democrats fear Kerry looking like Gore
NJ.COM ^
Posted on 04/30/2004 12:39:17 PM PDT by Sub-DriverDemocrats fear Kerry looking like Gore
By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press 4/30/2004, 3:24 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a recurring nightmare for Democratic strategist Tony Coelho — the party's presidential candidate portrayed as a flip-flopping opportunist, ill-served by a strife-torn staff. It happened in 2000, when Coelho ran Al Gore's campaign. Now, it's happening to John Kerry.Democratic leaders fear he's getting "Gored."
"What the Kerry people don't understand is, it's succeeding," Coelho said.
Scores of Kerry supporters like the former California congressman say their initial response is to remain hopeful, based on polls showing the presumptive nominee tied with President Bush while the Democratic Party is better funded and more united than in 2000. But they are worried about history repeating itself.
"No question, it's a rerun of 2000," said Donna Brazile, campaign manager for the former vice president's 2000 race.
"Every Sunday, Team Bush goes in overdrive by outlining the upcoming week's attacks on Kerry. It's followed by paid advertisements and assigning top-notch surrogates," Brazile said. "This is the exact moment in 2000 when Gore was seriously damaged as the Bush team painted the former vice president as a "serial exaggerator.'"
Republicans are pressing the same points against Kerry, mocking him at every turn.
"How many times can a flip-flop flip before a flip-flop becomes a flop?" Bush spokesman Steve Schmidt asked in a recent news release.
Kerry has given the GOP plenty of fodder...
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...Supporters say the strategy is even broader — the White House is throwing every conceivable flip-flop or character flaw at Kerry's feet, just as they did to Gore.
Early in the 2000 campaign, Republicans accused the former vice president of taking credit for inventing the Internet, a claim Gore never quite made. Bush's team also jumped on a suggestion by Gore that he and his wife were the models for the novel "Love Story." The vice president later said he was wrong, and chalked it up to a miscommunication.
Neither incident alone ruined Gore's image, but Republicans planted seeds of doubt harvested late in the campaign by Bush.
During a fall debate, Gore said he accompanied Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt to a Texas fire zone. Gore's campaign later said he inspected the fires, but not with Witt.
It was a small mistake, but big enough for GOP vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney to say in September 2000 that Gore "has failed to speak the truth" about all sorts of things.
Sound familiar?
"They're painting Kerry as a liberal, and it's succeeding.
They're painting him as somebody who flip flops, and they're succeeding..."CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
