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NEWLY-HIRED KERRY ADVISORS JAMES CARVILLE AND PAUL BEGALA SAID IT'S THE CANDIDATE STUPID: "Bill Clinton and Al Gore probably assembled as good a staff as anyone has ever put together for a presidential campaign. But the dirty little secret is that they would have won with the staffs assembled by Michael Dukakis or Walter Mondale. It has always been our belief that consultants don't win elections; candidates do." (James Carville and Paul Begala, "Who Wins The Election? It's The Candidate, Stupid," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12/8/92)LEARN ABOUT KERRY/EDWARDS' SHIFTING POSITIONS AT WWW.KERRYONIRAQ.COM

On May 13, 2004, Senator Edward Kennedy berated Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Senate Armed Services Committee, condemning "disaster after disaster" in U.S. Iraq policy. Well before the Abu Ghraib revelations, Kennedy has sought to transform Iraqi freedom from a philosophical and strategic issue into a partisan debate, without regard either to reality or result. On April 6, Kennedy called Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam." On March 5, 2004, Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations, took the president to task for allegedly exaggerating the threat posed by Iraq: "The evidence so far leads to...

Conducted at the end of the Democratic National Convention last week, the Newsweek-Gallup Poll of 1,006 registered voters showed 48 percent supporting Mondale and his vice-presidential nominee, Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.), 46 percent favoring Reagan and Vice President Bush, and 6 percent undecided. The 2 percent difference is insignificant, since the poll has a 4 percent margin of error. While it is normal for a candidate to score well with the public after his party's convention, the poll reflected a large turnaround. Mondale had been trailing Reagan by six points in Newsweek's poll last week and by as much...

MONDALE INTENDS TO REBUT REAGAN ON RELIGION ISSUE; He Prepares Major Statement on President's Linking of One's Faith to Politics MONDALE INTENDS TO REBUT REAGAN By BERNARD WEINRAUBSpecial to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 30, 1984. pg. A1, 2 pgs Article types: front_page Dateline: ST. PAUL, Aug. 29 ISSN/ISBN: 03624331 Text Word Count 1141 First Paragraph ST. PAUL, Aug. 29 -- Walter F. Mondale has decided to make a major campaign issue out of President Reagan's comments that religious and political ideas are linked. Mr. Mondale made it clear today that he...

BOSTON - At conventions devoted to electing next presidents, there's always the question of what to do with ex-presidents, not to mention those who ran and lost. The answer: as little as possible, and get it over with. Democrats go into their convention Monday needing to accommodate one big brassy winner, Bill Clinton (news - web sites); the towering Kennedy legacy, and a succession of people who have accomplished much but don't wear the magic aura of success. A few of them, in fact, represent crushing defeat. Clinton was allotted a prime time speech Monday night, a hail to the...

More proof: two johns in your home = good; two Johns in the White House = bad.

IT’S OFFICIAL!Kerry/Edwards Make History, More Liberal Than Mondale/Ferraro________________________________________Kerry: “I’m a liberal and proud of it.”(“Gee, There Were So Many In 1988,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7/21/91)1984 DEMOCRAT VEEP CHOICE CALLED“THOROUGHLY” LIBERAL 1984 Associated Press Headline: “Democratic Veep Choice Thoroughly A Political Liberal.” “The Americans for Democratic Action and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are worlds apart on most matters, but they agree that Rep. Geraldine Ferraro is a liberal. Reviewing the New York Democrat’s voting record on major issues last year, the liberal ADA gave her a 90 percent rating. From its conservative vantage point, the business group awarded Ms. Ferraro...

Something to Yak About – Yeah, That’s the Ticket: Kerry-Edwards More Liberal Than Mondale-Ferraro With his selection of John Edwards as his running mate, John Kerry has managed to construct a Democrat ticket that’s even more liberal than… (drum roll, please…) Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro! That’s right, folks, the Kerry-Edwards ticket has amassed a documented record of liberalism that exceeds even that of the utterly failed Mondale-Ferraro ticket of 20 years ago, according to the Lefties at Americans for Democratic Action. Hard to believe, but the numbers don’t lie. It’s The Record, Stupid! Just when we thought John...

One hundred one academics who support the Presidential candidacy of Walter F. Mondale bought a quarter page advertisement in today's issue of the New York Times to say Mr. Reagan's suggestion "that his record was in the tradition of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy" was "a flagrant distortion of reality to serve his own political purpose." The group, which includes five Nobel prize winners, comes from 22 colleges, universities and other institutions.

Why do the Democrats like to talk about Vietnam so much? Because it's the only war they ever won.

SELMA, Ore. - Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale said Sunday that the strong role Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) has taken in the White House is changing the way government and politics work. "This is going to be an issue in the campaign, and it will be an issue for political scientists," Mondale said in an interview following a press conference. "This is starting to bend the political process." Mondale, 76, was invited to southern Oregon to speak to a community forum serving as a fund-raiser for the Selma Community and Education Center. About 300 people...

Every major presidential candidate must take part in that quadrennial ritual of introducing a plan to solve what the chattering class considers to be the nation's most pressing economic problems. Adding to this challenge is that whatever the candidate comes up with must roughly coincide with his party's preferred fiscal nostrums. While the problems change, the solutions don't. Democrat presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., makes a point during his speech at Wayne State University in Detroit on March 26. It is in this context that John Kerry trekked to Wayne State University in Detroit for the grand unveiling of...

Former VP Walter Mondale and Former Minn. Gov. Arne Carlson Co- Chair Bipartisan Campaign to Repeal Conceal-Carry Handgun Law 3/4/04 12:00:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Rebecca Thoman of Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, 612-998-7573 ST. PAUL, Minn., March 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two icons of Minnesota politics have teamed up to announce the formation of a campaign to repeal the conceal and carry gun bill that was passed by Minnesota's legislature during the 2003 legislative session. State Rep. Nora Slawik (DFL-Maplewood) who is chief author of the bill to repeal the conceal/carry law said: "I'm honored, today,...

<p>March 4, 2004 -- Democratic nominee-to-be John Kerry yesterday put Walter Mondale's 1984 campaign manager in charge of picking his running mate and said nice things about vanquished rival John Edwards.</p> <p>Edwards quit the race after Kerry's Super Tuesday wins and vowed to do "everything in my power" to help Kerry. Party strategists weighed whether a two-senator ticket was the best way to go - with 1984 Mondale campaign chief Jim Johnson put in charge.</p>

Gallup Poll Says Reagan Tied by Mondale, Glenn The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: Jan 22, 1984. pg. A4, 1 pgs Article types: article ISSN/ISBN: 01908286 Text Word Count 139 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract (Article Summary) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- President Reagan is in a dead heat with the leading Democratic contenders, former vice president Walter F. Mondale and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), in the latest Gallup Poll presidential trial heat.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 -- In their last joint appearance before Election Day, Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro drew an estimated 100,000 supporters to a Garment District rally where the Democratic candidates denounced the "radical preachers" and "extremists who control the Republican Party."

If the November election were held today, a Democratic Mondale-Hart ticket would run even with a Republican Reagan-Bush ticket, according to a new Gallup Poll.

Poll Puts Mondale Even With Reagan By Norman D. Atkins Washington Post Staff Writer. The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.: Jul 23, 1984. pg. A3, 1 pgs Article types: article ISSN/ISBN: 01908286 Text Word Count 480 Abstract (Article Summary) Democratic presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale, on a post-convention fishing vacation in Gunflint Lake, Minn., did not catch any fish but hauled in some good news yesterday from a poll that showed him pulling even with President Reagan.

One thing the Bush campaign should understand: John F. Kerry is not going to repeat the mistakes of the Mondales and Dukakis’sPolls are now showing that John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee for President, can defeat President Bush. Some of those polls show that Kerry's lead is now into double digits. Bush-Cheney campaign operatives tell supporters not to worry. Kerry is the fourth Democrat to run for the Presidency from Massachusetts since 1980, the other three being Ted Kennedy (who was defeated by Jimmy Carter in the primaries), Paul Tsongas (who lost out to Bill Clinton, despite winning in New...

It's traditional for Washington, DC power brokers and wannabees to keep a "face wall" -- a collection of signed photographs or letters from the politicians they've met or worked for over the years. The typical face wall extensively features the beaming face of the curator, documenting his or her progress from intern to congressional aide to cabinet member or whatnot, shaking hands with the nation's political elite. I started my own collection two decades ago as a young soldier in the Reagan revolution. Over time it grew to include photos of myself and Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Arnold Schwarzenegger...