Posted on 01/19/2006 11:36:56 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In late November, George W. Bush went on the political offensive over the state of the war in Iraq. Determined to get his groove back after weeks of being pummeled by revitalized Democrats, Bush delivered a major speech outlining his “plan for victory.” Democrats, smelling blood, carefully plotted their response. The party’s Senate leadership decided that Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island would deliver their rebuttal. As a former member of the Eighty-second Airborne who had opposed the war from the start, Reed had the perfect credentials to remind Americans about Bush’s mismanagement of the war and of the grim realities the president had refused to acknowledge in his speech. All things considered, it looked like a banner opportunity to inflict more damage on the reeling president.
There was just one problem: John Kerry.
Without checking with his party’s leaders, Kerry scheduled his own response to Bush, which was to take place at 11 A.M., precisely the time that Reed was scheduled to respond. In Senate strategy meetings, mild panic ensued. “It was ‘Oh shit, we can’t have two competing press conferences at the same time,’ ” a senior Senate aide told me recently. “Many calls were made between offices in an effort to make sure we didn’t have two competing events with two messages, because we had ours pretty well ?eshed out.” Rather than make way for Reed, though, Kerry agreed to appear with him at a joint press event. Plenty of Democrats predicted what came next: Kerry was “droney and repetitive,” the aide says, but the press nevertheless overlooked Reed and went with the story line of Kerry, yesterday’s Democrat, still taking swings at the guy who beat him. “Jack Reed did a great job, but in the end he was overshadowed by John Kerry,” said the aide.
(Excerpt) Read more at men.style.com ...
Pass the popcorn, please.
“He thinks itÂ’s about him,” says a former Kerry campaign aide who had significant responsibilities in a key swing state. “He thinks all those people worked so hard and gave so much of their time because of him. And that is a gross misreading of the situation. I think heÂ’s under the illusion that over 50 million Americans voted for him, as opposed to the reality that they voted against George W. Bush.”
Also you can see where the author is trying to help the Rat party knock some sense into Lurch, thinking maybe calling him out in a pop culture vehicle such as GQ will finally get through to him that he's NOT WANTED.
(Why the long face, John?)
wouldntbprudent wrote:
(Why the long face, John?)
---John Kerry: Cause i'm a elite horses azz! (INSERT Horse whining here)
read later and look at the pictures
Kerry, Reed or Humpty Dumpty none of the queer queens men will ever put it back together again.
How can they ever expect less from a party that panders to extremes - the whores on the floors of Congress will forever watch the yoke run out the door. The Democratic Party egg has fallen and none shall ever put the pieces back together again.
On a side note, yet related - Who does Ted Kennedy most look like: Humpty Dumpty or Jabba the Hut???
Final turd toss for the day - just like queers, fags, lezbo's and homo's have stolen a wonderful word "GAY" and tuned it into sh-t so have Democrats with "Democratic" it's a shame, just a shame.
What's this about sKerry being 60,000 Ohio votes shy of learning the nuclear codes? sKerry was soundly beaten by about 120,000 votes in Ohio.
A merciless slice and dice piece on Kerry. A long read, but well worth it. (Unintentionally hilarious.)Clearly the democrats are terrified Kerry will muddy Hill's chances for the nomination. They're hoping TerAYsa will hand him an ultimatum: she'll cut off his allowance if he runs -- this piece looks as if it's aimed at the missus. In among the bits and pieces, we are told staffers begged Kerry not to go windsurfing, skiing, whatever, that he's a 'dullard' (but we already knew that). That his grades at Yale were 'mediocre'. We knew that, too. But they seem to think he's signed form 180. (No, he hasn't.) Oh, GQ also is sure AlGore isn't running.
Oops, Mikey in the tank was Susan Estrich's bright idea.
Oops, exit polls! Another Susan Estrich bright idea!
So it's all about Kerry. Screw the people of Massachusetts...
Kerry aides consider such polls “utterly meaningless,” insisting he is still loved outside the Beltway. “People in airports walk up to him saying, ‘I should have voted for you’ or ‘I’m so glad you’re still out there,’ ” [Kerry consultant Jenny] Backus says.
Uh, yeah the airport polls are the ones that really matter!
What Kerry has never understood that many of the 59 million voted credited to Kerry where actually votes for -
"AnyBody But Bush"
Yesterday on Hannity, they interviewed folks on current events.
Did you vote for Bush? No, I voted for the other guy!
What was his name? Steve!
He remembers his media guy, Bob Shrum, in a regrettably heady early-evening moment, addressing him as “Mr. President.” Mr. President. To hear those words must be something like an acid trip that went too far. You’re just never quite the same again.
LOL! Bob Shrum has a reputation for being nothing but BAD LUCK for political campaigns. Shrum has LOST every campaign he has been involved with. So when Shrum addressed Kerry as "Mr. President" it must have been a nice ego trip for Kerry but at the same time he must have known that it was the moment that the Curse of Shrum just DOOMED his campaign.
What are the chances that a gigolo with a wealthy wife is wandering an airport among the commoners instead of taking a private plane?
I was wondering the very same thing. This article puts John Kerry in a part of the airport where any mortal of base clay might rub up against him. It's a whole different lounge for him.
"The records revealed that Kerry had earned mediocre grades at Yale. "
But, but..... Bush is still the dumb one, right?
mark for later to see what Kerry's hissy fit was about...
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