John Dean can really churn them out...
Posted on 07/23/2006 6:50:04 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential hopes were sunk when he buckled under to “authoritarian” conservatives hellbent on smearing his military record as part of a larger “proto-facist” movement, says a former top White House aide whose testimony helped sink Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
John Dean, a Republican who served as Nixon’s top counsel, said Kerry slipped up during the 2004 campaign against President Bush by not suing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth when they published a book calling into question the Bay State senator’s Vietnam service.
“What most surprised me is that Kerry never did anything with the Swift boat attacks,” Dean said. “He waited so long, it was shocking. I thought he should have brought a defamation action against them and he would have succeeded.”
Dean compared the situation to a suit brought by the late Sen. Barry Goldwater following his failed 1964 run for president. Goldwater won a lawsuit against a magazine that published a poll of psychiatrists who said he was “crazy.”
Dean was in Boston this week promoting his new book, “Conservatives Without Conscience,” a harsh indictment of the current GOP power structure that paints Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top party leaders as dangerous “authoritarians” who have ignored the ideology’s founding tenets.
“About 23 percent of the American people are authoritarian conservatives,” Dean said. “It’s proto-fascist behavior. While we’re not a fascist nation, we’re too close (for) comfort. I’m trying to warn people.”
Dean, who fired his first salvo at the Bush White House with his last book, “Worse Than Watergate,” slams the administration on the war in Iraq, accuses officials of fear-mongering and criticizes Cheney’s opposition to a congressional measure to ban torture.
Asked what he thinks the president would have to say about his book, Dean said: “He doesn’t read books. He has trouble reading his one-sheet summary papers.”
Just exactly right Sleuth!!!
That would make a great tagline...:)
You're right sleuth, I'd forgotten that and I saw him do it on someones show. I pray he doesn't get the nomination, It'd kill me to vote for him in the general but I absolutely won't vote for a lib.
Does this traitorous Dilldo of a creature ever think about who's nest he's soiling so stupidly?
GRRR
Dean. The gift that just keeps giving.
And just what was your wife's former line of work, Mr. Dean?
"It is not just Democrats who can go politically senile in the twilight of their careers."
I think both Dean and Murtha took an express train from puberty to senility.
If you move to Florida, I'll vote for you, meanwhile it's Senator Katherine Harris in my plans.
And just what was your wife's former line of work, Mr. Dean?
Hi Justa. Yes, I've read about the Stolen Honor lawsuits but I thought I remembered something about Kerry threatening to sue over Unfit For Command. I think I mixed it up with John O'Neill inviting Kerry to sue him for saying Kerry was never in Cambodia.
And just what was your wife's former line of work, Mr. Dean?
Bullsh**. Dean is trying to sell Bash Bush Books in a market saturated by Bash Bush Books.
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Kerry still hasn't done anything about the Swiftees. Maybe because they told the truth and he knows that in a lawsuit, he would have to fully release any and all records of his service to the public?
Instead, the DNC seems to have several pro-Veteran 'sounding' sites and groups running, or hiding behind, to try to counter the truth that came out about the Democrat Party and what they did to America and have been doing ever since Viet Nam.
Despite loud claims, not one thing in Unfit for Command has ever been shown to be a lie, just Libby rhetoric that it is.
Succinct!!!! as always.
"Every state employee who depended on Long for their job was expected to pay a portion of his salary directly to Long’s political war-chest; these funds were kept in a famous locked “deduct box” and used at his discretion."
Sounds just like Algore's election promise that he would place all SS contributions in a "lock box." No doubt, that lock box would be controlled by Algore!
NEO-COM = NEO-COMMUNIST
Aptly applied to Liberals, Progressives, Socialists and the rest of the left wing moonbats
"I thought he was dead, maybe he should send out postcards stating he is still alive, then maybe we will worry about his babblings.."
John Dean and General Francisco Franco are both still alive and both still meaningful.
"NEO-COM = NEO-COMMUNIST
Aptly applied to Liberals, Progressives, Socialists and the rest of the left wing moonbats"
Just a minor point of dissent here. I think the Liberals, Progressives, Socialists and the rest of the left wing moonbats are actually PALEO communists, they never did support the "cause of good" and never will. All they support is "we hate Republicans." Her Thighness is the perfect face of their party, a devoted Commie herself!
"He describes himself as a conservative who wants to rescue his party from the ultra-right wing, power-hungry sociopaths masquerading as conservatives who've taken it over."
In other words, he describes the conservative movement the way the Michael More-ons of the world do...
A quisling conservative or simply a leftist liar, cant decide which.
This guy makes Benedict Arnold look good.
John Dean can really churn them out...
It seems John Dean has been spending too much time on DU lately.
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