"Hey Bill, where do we send the bill?" -- Kerry camp may be getting the message; it's not too late
If Bill Shipp were down the hall, I would holler to him -- "Hey Dean, did you read the Washington Post today?" "No," he would bellow back in that deep voice that I love hearing every Sunday morning on The Georgia Gang. "What'd it say?"
"Let me just put it this way. I think those dumb ____ who have been running Kerry's campaign may have begun reading your column and my blog." "Oh yeah," he says, "What makes you say that?"
"Well, you remember all of our talk about the 'Yes' answer; letting Bush set the agenda for the election; a need to apologize for calling our soldiers murderers and war criminals; how the man is paying big money for what; how Kerry's campaign remains in the running in the gold medal race for 'Worst Presidential Campaign,' etc."
"Yeah," he says.
"Well, you must read the entire article in the 9-8-04 Washington Post, but you will get a feel of what I mean by the following excerpts:"
John F. Kerry's August swoon began with a detour on Iraq.
President Bush -- hoping to blur differences between the two candidates over the explosive issue of Iraq -- had challenged Kerry to declare whether he would have supported the war knowing what he does now about Iraq's weapons program. Kerry strolled up to reporters, took what two of his own aides privately called obvious political bait and declared without equivocation that "yes, I would have voted for the authority" for Bush to wage the conflict.
With one simple answer, Kerry stepped on his message for the week and provided the Bush campaign the political ammunition it sought.
"From a tactical point . . . [Kerry] lost the initiative in making this election about George Bush," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), an official in the Clinton White House. "George Bush cannot handle an election about his last four years, [but] Kerry has to make this election about" that.
Aides say Kerry may soon apologize for some of his most heated comments during the Vietnam War protests of the early 1970s, a move that would rekindle the debate for a few more days.
"You are paying these guys a lot of damn money. If Kerry is screwing up, where is our Karl Rove?"
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Do yourself a favor. This is must reading. Thanks Mr. VandeHei.
Kerry Comments in August Have Him Playing Into GOP Hands -- Democrat Trying To Make Up for Setbacks on Iraq
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
"Let me just put it this way. I think those dumb ____ who have been running Kerry's campaign may have begun reading your column and my blog." "Oh yeah," he says, "What makes you say that?"
"Well, you remember all of our talk about the 'Yes' answer; letting Bush set the agenda for the election; a need to apologize for calling our soldiers murderers and war criminals; how the man is paying big money for what; how Kerry's campaign remains in the running in the gold medal race for 'Worst Presidential Campaign,' etc."
"Yeah," he says.
"Well, you must read the entire article in the 9-8-04 Washington Post, but you will get a feel of what I mean by the following excerpts:"
John F. Kerry's August swoon began with a detour on Iraq.
President Bush -- hoping to blur differences between the two candidates over the explosive issue of Iraq -- had challenged Kerry to declare whether he would have supported the war knowing what he does now about Iraq's weapons program. Kerry strolled up to reporters, took what two of his own aides privately called obvious political bait and declared without equivocation that "yes, I would have voted for the authority" for Bush to wage the conflict.
With one simple answer, Kerry stepped on his message for the week and provided the Bush campaign the political ammunition it sought.
"From a tactical point . . . [Kerry] lost the initiative in making this election about George Bush," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), an official in the Clinton White House. "George Bush cannot handle an election about his last four years, [but] Kerry has to make this election about" that.
Aides say Kerry may soon apologize for some of his most heated comments during the Vietnam War protests of the early 1970s, a move that would rekindle the debate for a few more days.
"You are paying these guys a lot of damn money. If Kerry is screwing up, where is our Karl Rove?"
_______________
Do yourself a favor. This is must reading. Thanks Mr. VandeHei.
Kerry Comments in August Have Him Playing Into GOP Hands -- Democrat Trying To Make Up for Setbacks on Iraq
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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