SMEAR FACTOR
Kerry Election Strategy Clear: Smear
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“‘We’re going to keep pounding, let me tell you. We’re just beginning to fight here,’ Kerry said. ‘These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I’ve ever seen. It’s scary.’” <font size=3> (Jill Zuckman and Jeff Zeleny, “Unscripted Kerry Calls GOP Liars,” Chicago Tribune, 3/11/04)
JOHN KERRY HAS BEEN SMEARING PRESIDENT FOR MONTHS
February 2004: Kerry Campaign Advisor Stated “[E]verything Is On The Table. Everything.” (Robin Toner, “G.O.P. Revives Line Of Attack Against Kerry,” The New York Times, 2/5/04)
December 2003: Kerry Uses F-Word To Attack Bush Iraq Policy. <font size=4>“I mean, when I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. ... Did I expect George Bush to f*** it up as badly as he did? I don’t think anybody did.” <font size=3> (John Kerry As Quoted In Will Dana, “John Kerry’s Desperate Hours,” Rolling Stone, 12/2/03)
December 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Charges Bush Administration “Cheat People” On Education. “‘They’re not even trying,’ [Kerry] said. ‘They make a deal on a bill called No Child Left Behind and then they don’t put any money out there. They cheat people.’”<font size=3> (Mike Wilson, “Kerry Talks Issues With Diner Crowd,” The Associated Press, 12/20/03)
December 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Says “Radical” Bush Administration “Trampled” On Civil Rights. “‘There is nothing conservative or traditionally Republican about this administration,’ Kerry said. ‘It is radical in the way that it has trampled on that fine line drawn between church and state and in the way it has trampled, through its attorney general, on the civil rights of Americans.’”<font size=3> (Ron Fournier, “Democrats Meet For Final Debate Of Year,” The Associated Press, 12/9/03)
September 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Compares President Bush To Jefferson Davis. Kerry: “The president says one thing about children, does another, one thing about taxes, does another, about housing, about the war, about -- goes to Goree Island, spends a few minutes, behaves like Abraham Lincoln, goes to South Carolina, behaves like Jefferson Davis on the Confederate flag.”<font size=3> (Fox News/CBC, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03)
September 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Said President Couldn’t Find Countries In Our Hemisphere . Kerry: “[I]t would be wonderful to have a President of the United States who could find the rest of the countries in this hemisphere.”<font size=3> (Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, Albuquerque, NM, 9/4/03)
April 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Retained Right “To Use Family’s Wealth” To Pay For His Smear Machine. Kerry “said he retained the right to use his family’s wealth ... to fight what is expected to be a $200 million Bush barrage before Labor Day 2004. ‘I know the kind of campaign they are going to run,’ he said, ‘and I am prepared to fight back.’”<font size=3> (Howard Fineman, “Having A Gay Old Time,” Newsweek, 5/5/03)
April 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Compared President To Saddam Hussein. “‘What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States,’ Kerry said in a speech at the Peterborough Town Library. Despite pledging two weeks ago to cool his criticism of the administration once war began, Kerry unleashed a barrage of criticism as US troops fought within 25 miles of Baghdad.”<font size=3>(Glen Johnson, “Kerry Says Us Needs Its Own ‘Regime Change,’” The Boston Globe, 4/3/03)
April 2003: <font size=4>Kerry States World Leaders Don’t “Trust This President.” “I don’t think they’re [world leaders] going to trust this president, no matter what ...”<font size=3> (John Kerry As Quoted In Glen Johnson, “Kerry Says US Needs Its Own ‘Regime Change,’” The Boston Globe, 4/3/03)
March 2003: <font size=4>Kerry Derides Bush As “Marlboro Man.” Kerry: “They have managed him the same way they managed Ronald Reagan. They send him out to the press for one event a day, they put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or drive a truck, and all of a sudden he’s the Marlboro Man. I know this guy. He was two years behind me at Yale, and I knew him, and he’s still the same guy.”<font size=3> (Julia Reed, “A Man In Full,” Vogue, 3/3/03)
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