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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (9106)	3/20/2004 8:13:54 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Hi AS - welcome back. Did you see the post that showed Worldcom corruption started under slick willie. Or - do you plan to just ignore another one of your factually challenged acusations.

To: American Spirit who wrote (9106)	3/20/2004 9:02:06 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Joshua Micah Marshall is tough on Kerry but IMO has some good suggestions...fyi... talkingpointsmemo.com <<...(Put Richard Holbrooke, not campaign flacks -- much as I love them -- on every show that will book him. He wants to be Secretary of State. Make him work for it.) Kerry is now being hit by a barrage of attacks almost all of which, as I've tried to note here, are based on lies and distortions. They're being organized and planned by the president's partner Karl Rove, a man who has specialized for more than thirty years in vicious campaign tactics (remember McCain in South Carolina) and dirty tricks. As John Dean notes in his soon to be released book Worse than Watergate -- about which we'll be saying more soon -- even during the Watergate investigation assistant Watergate special prosecutor Richard Davis -- who was tasked with investigating various dirty tricks operations -- was investigating Rove, quizzing Nixon's staffers about Rove's role in various dirty tricks operations. But you know what? That's life. Don't complain; fight. The press is too lazy and insensible to be a watchdog for this sort of business. Everybody knew who Kerry is going up against. As Clift notes, this is what Kerry told them to bring on. And they're bringing it on. Democrats gave Kerry this chance to take on the president -- whose reelect number is hovering in the low to mid-forties -- because they believed he would fight and that he was electable. Kerry is a fighter. I saw it first hand during his 1996 senate race against Bill Weld. But Kerry will never successfully parry these hits by getting tangled and stuck in the molasses of the president's lies and distortions. Getting sidetracked into a discussion of legislative maneuvering isn't the answer to the president's attacks; it's precisely what they're trying to elicit. The answer is simply to say they're lies (while having surrogates and staffers explain why) and then to go on the attack...>> Pass this link onto the campaign...Marshall is sharp and should be listened to... talkingpointsmemo.com