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NEWSWEEK ELECTION ISSUE: 'How He Did It'
PR Newswire ^ | 11/4/04

Posted on 11/04/2004 8:14:59 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

Edited on 11/04/2004 9:39:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
She had been booked on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" to talk about the Swift Boat ads. What are the talking points? Estrich asked the Kerry campaign. There are none, she was told. Estrich was startled. She had seen this bad movie before.

I hope this finishes her as a TV commentator.

81 posted on 11/04/2004 11:29:31 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: Keith in Iowa
If Newsweek had the balls to report all this before the election, Kerry probably would have lost Mass, and the other 49 states.

Two busy with missing ammo that happened a year ago.

82 posted on 11/04/2004 11:31:00 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: rwfromkansas
He said with a sigh to one top staffer, 'I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot.'"

Ann Richards and Gore said the same thing

LOL!

83 posted on 11/04/2004 11:31:52 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
There are some seriously funny excerpts if you can weed through it... (LONNNNNNG)... Here are some gems:


About Dean: In the summer of 2002, his aides had been relieved that no cameras had captured the would-be Democratic nominee, in full cry at a gay fund-raiser on New York's Fire Island, shouting out, "If Bill Clinton could be the first black president, I can be the first gay president!"

Dean again: One senior aide compared the Dean campaign to the novel "Flowers for Algernon," the story of a seriously retarded man who, put through a course of radically experimental treatment, lives for a few months as a genius—then regresses rapidly to what he had been before the experts remade him: a moron.

(Dean had fun with Kerry's self-righteousness; at his private debate prep, he would pose as Kerry, sticking his nose up in the air and mimicking Kerry: "I was in Vietnam; I don't take any PAC money.")

Kerry had Gore's cell-phone number and called him. "This is John Kerry," he said when Gore answered. The phone went dead. Kerry tried to call several more times and never got through. He was hurt. "I endorsed him early. I was up for consideration as his running mate," he complained to an aide.

84 posted on 11/05/2004 12:11:45 AM PST by cgk (The Left was beaten by Pres Bush twice & will never have another shot at him... who's dumb?)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Why am I not surprised by this article?


85 posted on 11/05/2004 12:36:06 AM PST by dancusa (Dems loss = Schadenfreude.)
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To: July 4th
Sen. John Kerry was baffled..."He said with a sigh to one top staffer, 'I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot.'"

Yeah. I remember sighing those exact same words, throughout two entire terms of the dark years of shame, unreason and terror the Clinton administration. :)

86 posted on 11/05/2004 12:46:11 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: July 4th

But .. ever the classy gentlemen, our President had nothing but kind words for the Senator during the President's victory speech on Wednesday.

My comment: Senator Kerry - THE IDIOT


88 posted on 11/05/2004 1:07:30 AM PST by CyberAnt (Election 2004: This election is for the SOUL OF AMERICA)
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To: DaBroasta
Their intellect is generally on par with that of a typical college graduate (both Gore and Kerry were C students) yet they have convinced themselves that they are intellectually superior humans.

In C.S. Lewis' phrase, they are "men without chests" (chest here standing for those normal human responses that are neither pure gut level nor purely cerebral -- the aesthetic, the moral, trained affections, etc.) -- since they are so lacking chests, their heads look huge (at least to them).

89 posted on 11/05/2004 1:19:16 AM PST by maryz
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To: IStillBelieve
The media suppressed this information, knowing it would damage Kerry's campaign, until the election was over.

So what else is new? Remember Primary Colors? NR quipped that Klein should have gotten the reportage prize for Primary Colors and the fiction prize for his campaign coverage.

90 posted on 11/05/2004 1:22:14 AM PST by maryz
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

OK, the two campaigns gave the reporters access under the conditions that this stuff wouldn't come out until after the election was over.

What are the chances they would have kept their word if it was the Republicans who had that sort of stuff going on? I suspect that, for their piously hypocritical liberal reasons, it would have been morally imperative for the MSM to share it with us before we voted.

A pox on them...


91 posted on 11/05/2004 1:33:34 AM PST by BWDog
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To: 6SJ7
I suspect those were more likely vultures circling.

First I have heard of condors in the Grand Canyon, they are nearly extinct. Those that have been released are in their native habitat of California I thought. Probably eagles.

92 posted on 11/05/2004 1:44:12 AM PST by Joe Miner
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To: rwfromkansas
Honestly, I am stunned. I knew Kerry was a phony, but to say that.....it shows his SOUL...and it is black.

I'm not stunned in the least by that comment. Kerry is a self-absorbed phony.

93 posted on 11/05/2004 1:49:08 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

bump for delicious, leisurely weekend reading


94 posted on 11/05/2004 2:31:12 AM PST by NYpeanut (gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, "Why did you lie to me?")
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To: Fishtalk
Re: your tag

What are the talking points? Estrich asked the Kerry campaign. There are none, she was told. Estrich was startled. She had seen this bad movie before.

With this admission...why would anyone ever watch a "pundit" show again?

95 posted on 11/05/2004 3:30:37 AM PST by Dutchgirl (Be still and know that I am God.-Psalm 46:10)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I have said it before...

Democrats eat their own dead.

What did Mondale, Dukakkis, or Gore with their party after they lost? Gore is only around because he raised the ghost of 2000 and was useful for arousing anger. They kept Mondale in the basement until he was useful for filling a dead Senator's seat. Dukkakis dropped off the map altogether.

I think the reason Kerry kept his Senate position is that IF he lost he knew he would get NO support from his party in the future and that his only chance for political position is to hold on to what he has.

96 posted on 11/05/2004 3:34:27 AM PST by Crusher138 (Support capitalism. Check out www.USAPoliTees.com)
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To: 6SJ7

"I suspect those were more likely vultures circling."

Do vultures attack other vultures?


97 posted on 11/05/2004 3:48:02 AM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: kcvl

If Kerry wants to fully understand what an idiot is, then he need look no further than to those in his own party who are now doing the cable/network political talk shows,and giving their opinions of "what we'll need to do for 2008" to take back the White House,etc.

I mean just how stupid do they think we are, when we hear them saying things like "we have to learn how to talk to people in the red states"? Unbelievable!


Do they honestly believe that if they just learn how to better "talk the talk" that they'll fool us into voting for em' four years from now?!

So like I said, if gigolo John Kerry wants to see all the idiots he can stomach, he need look no further than at those inside his own party who, like him, think that talking the talk will be enough to get them into the White House.


98 posted on 11/05/2004 3:56:12 AM PST by TeddyCon
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To: Max Combined

Seriously....if we thought it was hard to believe anything Estrich had to say before....


99 posted on 11/05/2004 4:10:50 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

The push from Bill C. to have Kerry lie about his position on gay marriage amendments is so telling. At least Kerry has some conviction, whereas we are reminded (once again) of how BC would say anything to anyone about anything, if it met his ends.


100 posted on 11/05/2004 4:12:42 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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