Kerry Camp Roiled By Secret Clintonista Coup

The Blogspirator ^ | 9/3/04 | adam_az

[adam_az]

Joe Lockhart, who Sen. Kerry picked
as his Senior Campaign Advisor after he
didn't pick him as his Senior Campaign
Advisor.

CNS News reports:

In a statement issued Thursday, the Kerry campaign said Rep. Dick Gephardt and Joe Lockhart, the campaign's new senior adviser, will hold a conference call with reporters to discuss the latest (economic) numbers.

New senior advisor? Interesting, considering the New York Times report from two days ago on September 1.

Several senior Kerry aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the addition of two former Clinton hands, Joel Johnson and Joe Lockhart, had improved both operations and the mood inside the campaign headquarters in Washington.

Mr. Johnson's role is to keep the communications team laser-focused on Mr. Kerry's core messages. Mr. Lockhart is to begin traveling with Mr. Kerry in Nashville and will work directly with reporters.

"There's not going to be a staff shakeup," Ms. Cutter said definitively. "We are building up the team with the best and the brightest to take us through the homestretch."

Mr. Lockhart added: "Any idea that the senior leadership of this campaign is about to be changed is just not true."

Only in the Kerry campaign is a "new senior adviser" not a "staff shakeup.

The Blogspirator figures it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

Interestingly, Lockhart served as a travelling press aide for the 1988 Dukakis/Bentsen race.... And also as Assistant Press Secretary for '84 Mondale/Ferraro and '80 Carter/Mondale.

The Blogspirator thinks it sounds like Kerry picked himself a winner...

[adam_az]

ping

[Jim Noble]

Lockhart has arranged for Kerry to give a major policy address at the end of this month in Fort Marcy Park...

[cripplecreek]

"Lockhart has arranged for Kerry to give a major policy address at the end of this month in Fort Marcy Park..."


At 3AM ?

[EagleUSA]

Yes, we are making changes, be we are NOT making changes.

Very Kerry-esque.

[TheBigB]

Mr. Johnson's role is to keep the communications team laser-focused on Mr. Kerry's core messages

...whatever those may be.

[Ptaz]

I've always thought the Clintons were behind Kerry being a candidate. They want a weak candidate or (heaven forbid he actually pull off a win) a 1-termer at best. No Way Hitlery is going to wait til 2012.

[Jim Noble]

The timing of the speech will depend on the new campaign charter carrier's schedule.

Lockhart has arranged a very favorable deal with Air Wellstone.

[1066AD]

If the Ohio "rally" last night was any indication Mr Johnson has a LONG way to go.

[basil]

Mr. Johnson's role is to keep the communications team laser-focused on Mr. Kerry's core messages.

This should be quite a trick. What in the world IS Kerry's core message?

[Baynative]

Where is "Senior Intelligence and Foreign Relations Adviser", Sandy Berger these days?

[basil]

Mr. Johnson's role is to keep the communications team laser-focused on Mr. Kerry's core messages.

This should be quite a trick. What in the world IS Kerry's core message?

[bray]

Lockhart has a photop planned for windsailing in Miami this weekend!!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Wally_Kalbacken]

You really have entered a morass of truth inseparable from fiction when you start talking with campaign operatives about the world outside the campaign. When you listen to them speak about the inside game -the truth and falsehoods cancel themselves out. It is the audio equivalent of watching the hash pattern on a television tuned to a nonworking channel.

Keep rearranging the deck chairs, heck add Tony Coelho!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Mr. Johnson's role is to keep the communications team laser-focused on Mr. Kerry's core messages

Which could prove to be more challenging than the SDI tests.

[cricket]

"Lockhart has arranged for Kerry to give a major policy address at the end of this month in Fort Marcy Park..."

LOL! . . .right?

[rodguy911]

2 AM it's kinds strange to have Bubba's minions tacitly on our side.

[malakhi]

What in the world IS Kerry's core message?

"Anybody but Bush".

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

We all know that Hillary is waiting for 2008, so she will not have to take on an incumbent. Kerry was ignorant and arrogant enough to fall right into the Clinton's trap. They are playing him for the fool that he is. I wouldn't be surprised if the Clinton machine was the real source of uncovering the inconsistencies in Kerry's military record.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Joe LOCKJAW! He's back. The Kerry camp is on Clintonista life support!

[rodguy911]

You gotta think that should f'ing get any traction at all bubba and the wench will be right there to knock him off the road, just to make sure he goes absolutely no where.

[chris1]

Was it me, or did Kerry seem very drunk?????

[rodguy911]

"Kerry's core message"

YOU KNOW, I SERVED IN VIET NAM, CORPORAL KERRY REPORTING FOR DUTY!.

[rhc2000]

Funny how its going to take almost a full month to get a "major policy address" put together, yet this cat's been the presumptive nominee/nominee for the past 6 months and has aspirations to be POTUS since Vietnam. While Kerry licks his finger and sticks it in the air to determine which way the political winds are blowing, the President has laid out his agenda for the next 4 years and is already campaigning rigorously on it.

[laredo44]

...whatever those may be.

Try to keep up, would you please. It's people like you that prevent Kerry from getting his message out and have him falling farther and farther behind! You! It's all your FAULT!

Thanks.

[rodguy911]

The only ones who could possibly pull it out for f'ing now are the MSM'ers(remember how harsh and scowling Zell was,they can spin anything) and hopefully they are still controlled by the blood sucker and bubba himself.

[sarasota]

They're gonna be "laser-focused on Kerry's key messages". Uh, what are they again, besides Nam?

[murdoog]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Clinton machine was the real source of uncovering the inconsistencies in Kerry's military record.

I've often wondered if the Swift Boat Vets get any money from her.

[Savage Beast]

Calling in Joe Lockhart to save the Kerry campaign is like calling in Connie Chung to save CNN.

[1066AD]

Don't know, I was "watching" it here, but many thought so at the time.

[DJ Frisat]

"Several senior Kerry aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the addition of two former Clinton hands, Joel Johnson and Joe Lockhart, had improved both operations and the mood inside the campaign headquarters..."

Settle down, guys -- this doesn't mean that you get interns...

[Defiant]

Lockhart is a Clinton second stringer, came in to relieve the good press secretary, can't remember his name, after he was exhausted by impeachment.

[truthandlife]

I think it is interesting that Kerry picked Lockhart. He is weak and has a losing track record besides Clinton. I think Clinton gave Kerry the "B" team for a reason.

[adam_az]

Carter, Dukakis, Mondale....

Who next, Esterich?

All their good liars are busy skimming from 527's. Lockhart is all they have left!

This is called scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

That would be Mike McCurry.

[sinkspur]

Anybody notice that Carville is out there telling the Kerry camp they ought to bring Begala aboard?

Of course, Carville won't get near this rotting carcass himself as he smells death.

[twhitak]

This should be quite a trick. What in the world IS Kerry's core message?

I'm probably going to get flamed for this response, but so be it. I thought this board was populated by INTELLIGENT people yet questions like this get asked?!?!? Kerry's core message has been stated quite clearly over and over and over and over: HE SERVED IN VIETNAM, DAMMIT!!!!!!

[Thermalseeker]

I laughed out loud when I heard Kerry was hiring Clinton has beens as staff replacements. Is he nuts? It's almost as if he's setting himself up to loose....

[MHT]

NO, Kerry's message is clear---"I'm rich and smart--and you're not. I'm an elite Ivy-Leaguer who's never worked a day in my life (except for getting a government paycheck)--and you're not. My wife is rich (and crazy)--and yours isn't. I speak French and own five homes--and you don't. And above all, I've won three Purple Hearts--and you haven't. And, by the way, mine doesn't stink....."

[FormerACLUmember]

The rat party has proven itself once again to be a vast collection of clinically ill character disorders, psychopaths, and mega-narcissists.

[Mo1]

Well, when then they crash and burn ... The Dems won't be able to say it's because Clinton and his Goons weren't asked to help the campaign like the did with Al Gore in 2000

[mewzilla]

What happened to Mary Beth Cahill?

[Quix]

They're

ALWAYS

picking themselves

WHINERS.

Oh, wrong . . . welll, no . . .

RIGHT WORD.

[ridesthemiles]

"Lockhart has arranged for Kerry to give a major policy address at the end of this month in Fort Marcy Park..."


At 3AM ?

Make sure the seat position in the car matches Skerry's height. Vince Foster was quite tall. The seat in his car was set way forward..........Quite a trick with a "suicide".

[ridesthemiles]

If the Ohio "rally" last night was any indication Mr Johnson has a LONG way to go.

If last night was any example, sKerry needs a handler to make sure he isn't drunk or "over-medicated".

[ridesthemiles]

Did Lockhart follow Dee Dee Myers?

[Defiant]

No, there was a pit bull, lying, slick dissembler that was there during the entire impeachment. He was very good at what he did, which was lie.

[Wiser now]

Didn't you know? He fought in Vietnam! That's his message.

[Defiant]

Thank you, yes, McCurry was the guy I was thinking of. If Kerry had hired McCurry, it might have helped. Lockhart was McCurry's bumbling briefcase carrier.

[blue jeans]

re: This should be quite a trick. What in the world IS Kerry's core message?

Easy...

Please please please elect me!!! Waaahhhh!