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Subject: How George Bush Can Peel Off 30% of The Kerry's Face - err - Base
swhitebull    9/23/2004 10:55:42 AM
This is an summaary of a great article by former Clinton top advisor Dick Morris - who has been dead on so far this campaign - on how W can ABSOLUTELY DESTROY The Kerry, by peeling the moderate wing of the democrats away from The Kerry like (fill in your favorite metaphor). 30%!!!!

From National Review, Kerry Spot -

MORRIS: BUSH SHOULD ATTACK KERRY OVER U.N. [09/23 10:06 AM]

I know I suggested that Kerry's shift to a anti-war position was the least bad move he could make, but Dick Morris suggests a devastating countermove, writing in the New York Post today.

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Kerry has moved to the left, leaving about one-third of his vote behind. Bush can now move in and peel off Kerry's moderate supporters.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has opened the door for this new Bush offensive by declaring the invasion of Iraq "illegal" and equating the deadly terror raids by Iraqi guerillas with the embarrassing but hardly lethal sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by the U.S. military. With those incendiary claims put into play, it is now legitimate for Bush to attack the secretary-general and ask his opponent to take a stand for or against Annan's remarks.

In his current incarnation as a dove, Kerry dares not dissent too sharply from the views of the U.N. leader. Bush can develop a key campaign issue over whether it is legal for the United States to act in its own self-defense without obtaining Security Council approval. Ratification by an assemblage of nations bribed through the Oil-for-Food program should not be a prerequisite for American action.


Morris doesn't mention it, but could you imagine how the GOP base would react if Bush ripped Annan for ignoring the suffering in Iraq, the way he and the U.N. ignore the suffering in the Sudan today? Sure, rock-ribbed conservatives would like Bush to cut spending, and he's flipped on trade, and he signed campaign finance reform... but a lot of folks on the right would forget his shortcomings for a president who makes the case that the U.N. has turned into a obstructionary parliament of kleptocracies, dictators, and terrorist-snuggling states.

Besides the fact, Kerry would eventually have to concede, "yes, this war was illegal. That's why I voted agains- oh, wait. I voted the president the authority to have the option to launch an illegal war. Which wouldn't have been illegal if he had followed my advice. Er, that's it."

swhitebull - like maybe at the debates, in front of a HUGE audience?
 
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American Kafir    RE:How George Bush Can Peel Off 30% of The Kerry's Face - err - Base   9/23/2004 1:54:12 PM
Some ammo for Bush - (why settle for 30% of Kerry's base?) For the closer - link The document forger that passed the discredited "uranium from Niger" Iraqi documents to Italian intelligence before the war has admitted he was WORKING FOR FRENCH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES - in a amateurish French attempt to embarrass the United States and its allies and prevent the war as the UN Security Council deliberated over resolution 1441. Bush now has the option of floating the idea of withdrawal of the US from the UN, potentially predicated upon until such a time that France is removed from its permanet seat on the Security Council. Let Kerry defend both the stinking UN, as well as France's right to a permanent SC seat. Or wait until I'm elected President in 2008, when I'll withdraw the US from the UN, and demolish the UN Headquarters in NYC. I'm still ambivalent on whether or not to warn the remaining foriegn diplomats to clear the building first. I'd have to hear a damned good argument for doing so.
 
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swhitebull    RE:How George Bush Can Peel Off 30% of The Kerry's Face - err - Base   9/23/2004 2:41:14 PM
More on peeling thzt base back: MAYBE THE TOUGHEST COLUMN ON KERRY THIS YEAR [09/23 12:18 PM] Devastating column: link Remember all the talk about the passion on the left, the anger of the Bush-haters, the rage of the Deaniacs, this huge wave of fury that was going to sweep Bush from office? Well, notice that few political reporters have written about any anger or fury or passion against Kerry. But it's out there. Take a look at Ralph Peters column in today's New York Post: IMAGINE if, in the presidential election of 1944, the candidate opposing FDR had in sisted that we were losing the Second World War and that, if elected, he would begin to withdraw American troops from Europe and the Pacific. We would have called it treason. And we would have been right. In WWII, broadcasts from Tokyo Rose in Japan and from Axis Sally in Germany warned our troops that their lives were being squandered in vain, that they were dying for big business and "the Jew" Roosevelt. Today, we have a presidential candidate, the conscienceless Sen. John Kerry, doing the work of the enemy propagandists of yesteryear. Is there nothing Kerry won't say to win the election? Is there no position he won't change? Doesn't he care anything for the sacrifices of our troops in Iraq? And if he does care about our soldiers and Marines, why is he broadcasting remarks that insist ? against all hard evidence ? that the terrorists are winning? Has he seen the situation with his own eyes? I'll gladly tell him how to get there. I'll even be his guide. And he can smell what remains of Saddam's mass graves ? with new ones still being discovered. He can taste the joy of freedom among the Kurds. He can see the bustling commerce throughout the country ? despite the violence that alone makes headlines. Above all, he could see the magnificent performance of our troops, their dedication and professionalism. And their humanity, their goodness. But Kerry doesn't want to see those things. He's reverting to form. Just as he lied about our troops three decades ago, encouraging our enemies of the day and worsening the suffering of our POWs in North Vietnam, today he's pandering to a new enemy. Imagine the encouragement the terrorists, insurgents and global extremists draw from Kerry's declarations of defeat, from his insistence that our efforts in Iraq and in the War on Terror have failed... The terrorists and their allies already intended to increase the level of violence in Iraq before November. But Kerry's pandering has encouraged them to pull out all the stops. I wish it were otherwise, that our election process had more integrity, but the truth is that every roadside blast and car bomb in Iraq is meant to support John Kerry... In 1864, the citizens of the North were steadfast. They rejected the Democratic Party's warnings of defeat and saved the Union. In 2004, the American people, North and South, East and West, need to reject the cynical lies of John F. Kerry and vote to support our troops and save Iraq. Now, Peters doesn't speak for all Bush supporters and Kerry critics. But I'll bet this vibe of "how-dare-you" is echoing through the right and a decent chunk of the center, too. And I'll bet the sentiment is strongest in the demographics that the Democrats thought Kerry would perform well among: Veterans, members of the armed forces, and their families. swhitebull
 
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sentinel28a    RE:How George Bush Can Peel Off 30% of The Kerry's Face - err - Base   9/23/2004 7:44:36 PM
I'm not as extreme as AK on the UN, mainly because I'm an idealist who thinks it may still be salvageable--just not as long as Kofi Annan is running the show. (BTW, kudos to Colin Powell for putting Kofi against the wall. Even the French weren't getting in the middle of that one.) However, if I were POTUS, I'd be trumpeting this news from the rooftops. Or I'd wait and nail Kerry with it in the debates. I suppose it would be low for Bush to ask Kerry which country he's running for President for--the US or France.
 
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