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To: LindyBill who started this subject	5/4/2004 6:53:13 PM
From: LindyBill	of 793832

Hugh Hewitt - In a move to arrest the spreading sense of a campaign in disarray and a candidate in deep space, the Kerry team is pouring $27.5 million into an ad buy designed to persuade the voters who have been studying the Massachusetts senator that he's not who they think he is. The spin that the campaign is "introducing the candidate to general election voters" was bought by the New York Times, but a more appropriately skeptical tone is found in the Howard Kurtz and Jim VandeHei story in the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe combines the Kerry ad buy news with the devastating report that "a group of Navy veterans, including some who served as Kerry's commanding officers, plan to say at a news conference that they believe kerry is unfit to be commander in chief." The Los Angeles Times headlines "Navy Veterans Fire on Kerry," and the story that Kerry has had to have feared the most is suddenly front page news. The scathing criticism from those with whom he served badly injures Kerry's dominant campaign themes of service and heroism. Just today Globe columnist Peter Canellos has penned an appeal to Kerry to bring back his "Band of Brothers" in an effort to stabilize a careening campaign. The band of brothers may come back, but the media will have a hard time covering them while ignoring the devastating indictment being delivered today by the men who served alongside and above John Kerry. One of them, John O'Neil, has a Wall Street Journal piece on Kerry that cannot be missed. So John Kerry's spending a bucket of money but the ads will be overshadowed by the news that the men who shared his duty and his danger in Vietnam judge him unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief. Ouch. David Brooks tries this morning to pretend that the Kerry campaign isn't a fiasco, and the Los Angeles Times reports that Kerry has plenty of cash, but an undeniable sense of all the king's horses etc. has taken root in this campaign. The national polls may not show it yet (although yesterday's did point to a growing gap favoring Bush) but you can't have a character-credibility-charisma gap open this early in a campaign and expect to get back into the ring in the crucial battleground states.

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