They shouldn't even respond to the Suskind article... Only gives it more credibility and readership.
Kerry already is using this in Florida...Lies..Kerry is not a good man.
Plus, none of these charges really indict him, besides showing that he is a regular liberal hack.
Any sane, objective person that believes anything written in the New York Times is certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer!!! Ron Suskind and the NY Times are going nowhere. John Kerry is toast. These rants are the desperate moves of a defeated traitor!!!
it's the magazine piece;
Without a Doubt By RON SUSKIND
Published: October 17, 2004
Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that ''if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.'' The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion.
''Just in the past few months,'' Bartlett said, ''I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.'' Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and self-described libertarian Republican who has lately been a champion for traditional Republicans concerned about Bush's governance, went on to say: ''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . .
''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.''
Forty democratic senators were gathered for a lunch in March just off the Senate floor. I was there as a guest speaker. Joe Biden was telling a story, a story about the president. ''I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,'' he began, ''and I was telling the president of my many concerns'' -- concerns about growing problems winning the peace, the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanding of the Iraqi Army and problems securing the oil fields. Bush, Biden recalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States was on the right course and that all was well. '''Mr. President,' I finally said, 'How can you be so sure when you know you don't know the facts?'''
Biden said that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator's shoulder. ''My instincts,'' he said. ''My instincts.''
Biden paused and shook his head, recalling it all as the room grew quiet. ''I said, 'Mr. President, your instincts aren't good enough!'''
The democrat Biden and the Republican Bartlett are trying to make sense of the same thing -- a president who has been an extraordinary blend of forcefulness and inscrutability, opacity and action.
But lately, words and deeds are beginning to connect.... ...snip
I held my nose, kept the barf bag handy and got thru about 1/2 the Susskind hatchet job until I just had to stop.
Amazingly, when you boil the entire pack of lies and distortions down, you are left with the same old, tired, cliched, left-liberal rants about Republicans in general and George Bush in particular.
His entire article seeks to bash Bush on two bases:
1. Bush is stupid.
2. Bush is religious and believes in God and that is dangerous.
This is just a ten-thousandth rehash of these tired canards, showing the intellectual vacuity of the left. You'd think they'd learn already... but no, here is another hit piece that says the exact same things the libs ALWAYS say; Dont vote for Bush, he is dumb OR Dont vote for Bush because his belief in God is dangerous.
The NY Times really sucks.....
LOL......isn't the left weird when it goes into spontaneous combustion.
what a weiner.