Time for that girl that Kerry was associated with to return from hiding in Africa.
Here's hoping she is not needed.
Gillespie Warns of 'Vicious Personal Attacks' Against Bush
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
September 10, 2004
SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie warned supporters of President George W. Bush to "brace yourselves" for an all-out attack from the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry in the next two months leading up to the November 2 presidential election.
In an e-mail sent to the Bush-Cheney '04 grassroots team on Wednesday, Gillespie said the Kerry campaign has already begun this mode of negative campaigning.
"In response to President Bush's Agenda for America's Future and a critique of his policies and Senate record, Senator Kerry's campaign is implementing a strategy of vicious personal attacks against the President and Vice President," Gillespie wrote in the e-mail to Bush supporters.
Gillespie noted that the Kerry campaign has hired many of the "henchmen" for former President Bill Clinton as well as Democratic strategists and CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala.
"In August alone, Begala called President Bush a 'gutless wonder,' said he has a 'lack of intelligence,' and called Vice President Cheney a 'dirt bag,'" Gillespie revealed. "Carville said the President is 'ignorant big time' and said 'George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are a couple of nobodies.'"
The RNC chairman said the attacks continued from Kerry supporter John Glenn who attended a Kerry campaign rally in Ohio last Friday and compared the Republican Convention in New York to a "Nazi rally."
As for Kerry himself, Gillespie said he has regularly called Bush "unfit to lead our nation" and continually harps on Vietnam as a campaign issue designed to "divide the country."
Recalling a recent Kerry campaign event in New York where Bush was described as a "cheap thug," a "killer," and a "liar," Gillespie said even Teresa Heinz Kerry has called Bush's policies "unpatriotic" and "immoral" while Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has claimed Bush was AWOL from his National Guard duty over 30 years ago.
Pointing to a column this week from former presidential campaign manager for Michael Dukakis and Democratic strategist Susan Estrich, Gillespie said the Democrats and the Kerry campaign are going to try to label Bush as a draft dodger and in favor of abortion.
"Interestingly, the New York Daily News reported back in February that the Kerry campaign intended to spread such a rumor [about Bush supporting abortion] in pro-life chat rooms late in the campaign," Gillespie reminded.
Gillespie continued by stating that Estrich will "throw unsubstantiated gossip at President Bush in the same way she falsely maligned the late President Reagan as a date rapist who paid for a girlfriend's abortion and wrongly castigated Nancy Reagan as an adulterer who had an affair with Frank Sinatra."
Addressing the charge in a Kitty Kelly book alleging that Bush used cocaine at Camp David while George H.W. Bush was president, Gillespie said that charge "is as credible as her story that then-Governor and Nancy Reagan smoked marijuana with Jack Benny and George and Gracie Burns."
Finally, Gillespie stated that Democratic operative Ben Barnes, who has been a "major contributor" and vice-chair to the Kerry campaign, appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" program on Wednesday to "repudiate his statement under oath that he had no contact with the Bush family concerning the president's National Guard service."
"Anyone surprised that Barnes would contradict a statement he made under oath probably doesn't know his long history of political scandal and financial misdealings," Gillespie contended.
Gillespie warned, "So brace yourselves."
He believes that any scrutiny of Kerry's voting record in the U.S. Senate for higher taxes and opposition to weapons programs will create "the worst kind of personal attacks" against Bush.
"Such desperation is unbecoming of American Presidential politics, and Senator Kerry will pay a price for it at the polls as we stay focused on policies to continue growing our economy and winning the War on Terror," Gillespie concluded.