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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (563753)	4/13/2004 12:39:21 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Fancy it: Clinton did nothing against Al Qaeda for 8 entire years. The tone against terrorism had been well-established in that time, especially since Al Qaeda had hit us several times during Clinton's tenure and we did not strike back. Now, despite that Bush was in office only seven months and despite that this memo was not actionable, but contained carryover information about which even Clinton knew, despite this, Democrats are succeeding in convincing Americans that Bush is as culpable for 911 as Clinton. They will win this baseless argument because Americans are not the wisest, most informed people. They have very short attention spans and memories. They are soundbite folks. The media controls the soundbites and leftists control the media. Bush can spin this back toward himself. What he must do is complain vigorously that the partisans on the commission are not telling the truth and that he is losing faith in their ability to be fair. From that point onward, Bush should publicly detach and begin to push his campaign. When the leftist press asks him questions about this crap, he needs to say that he simply wants to wait until the commission does its job and then turn right around and take his argument right to the people that he has been fighting terrorism much harder than any Democrat ever, especially including John "policing action" Kerry. Americans will believe him because there is no more Taliban. He should constantly refer to that fact while pumping his economic recovery. This commission and its leftist media cannot be left to spin against Bush unchallenged. Lesser GOP operatives must assault at least two of the commissioners constantly, from now until August, with higher operatives in the Senate giving their consistent complaints credibility by agreeing with them with some frequency. The higher ups should increase their assaults monthly, both in frequently and volume. This will give the effect that the commission is going from bad to worse and "now I must say something about it." Bush will be asked to comment, but he should simply distance himself from the whole thing, claiming an interest in being President, since that is his job. He should repeatedly declare his wish to let the commission do its job, while other GOPers assault the commissioners with increasing intensity, making it appear that "Democrats are attacking the President unfairly." The GOP can get a lot of mileage out of that. Over time, it would sully the commission's credibility and the Democrats. It would also set the stage for a very effective rejection of the commission's July report. And it will allow Bush to rise above all of the stultifying partisan politicking that the Democrats are using to trap him. Bush has got to be free to sell himself while backhanding Kerry. This is not going to be a one shot one kill sort of race. It is going to be a long arduous run, and I fear Bush has not yet gotten quite off of the starting block.