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To: LindyBill who wrote (61802)	8/19/2004 10:25:55 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 793883

McCain seems to have made a trade with Bush: Save my seat in Whatsitsname (ya'know that STATE I was supposed to be the senator from-near Vegas) and I'll endorse you. Not that anyone in OUR party cares, but it will put a shock into all those "independents" the media has helped me fool. It's a worthwhile trade. And if the Republicans gain a preponderance of Senate seats in 2004, Bush will walk McCain like a dog, right up until he appoints him OUT of the Senate into a totally useless post like "intelligence czar". "Czar John". That would REALLY jack him up. BIG TIME...

To: LindyBill who wrote (61802)	8/19/2004 10:27:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793883

Polipundit - Are the Wheels Coming Off the Kerry Campaign? After the Connecticut bombshell this morning, SurveyUSA reports that Kerry leads in California by three percentage points. Although this particular poll slightly oversamples Republicans, this nevertheless jolts the Kerry campaign which hoped to be well ahead in August, as nearly every successful challenger has been in recent memory. Harris has released a poll showing the national race tied - 47%-47%. CBS has Kerry leading by a point. Given the poll's obvious liberal bias, Bush could actually be ahead nationally. The President remains tied in MO, IA, WI, MN, MI, OH, and PA. With the exception of OH and MO, these are all states Gore won. Obviously Florida continues to be a problem for us, but if Mel Martinez wins the Senate primary, then the galvanized Hispanic vote will pull both Bush and Martinez to victory. The bottom line is that Kerry, a candidate whose candidacy is largely based on a hatred of George W. Bush, is showing his numerous flaws under the intense glare of a political campaign. He obviously cannot take criticism - witness his meltdown in front of the cameras today, ranting at President Bush about something over which the President has no control. Since he cannot run on his Senate record, which would scare every single moderate voter into voting for the President, Kerry has run a campaign stressing his four-month stint in Vietnam. Now that is under question, and Kerry is in a state of panic. We have Kerry on the run... Poor John Kerry. The arrogant, dishonest, dishonorable elitist doesn't know what has hit him. In response to the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the Kerry campaign, yes the Kerry campaign, has begun spending some of its 75 million dollars for the general election on ads which retell, for the thousandth time, his phony stories of heroism in Vietnam and accuse the Swiftboat group of being financed by Bush financiers. Of course it's fine and dandy when groups like MoveOn.org accuse President Bush of going AWOL, lying about WMDs, being cozy with terrorists, and acting like Adolf Hitler. Kerry indeed goes to great lengths to make the same inferences, though in carefully coached language. Watching Kerry's response to this is actually pretty pathetic, but then so is everything about Kerry and his life story of marrying rich women and benefitting from their largess, trying to act like John F. Kennedy, and shamefully twisting this way and that to catch the latest political breeze. His phoniness has finally caught up with him, and Johnny doesn't like it. My suggestion to the Bush campaign? Run around $200,000 worth of ads in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa full of pictures of John McCain talking about how you signed comprehensive campaign finance reform into law. Then discuss how you think 527 groups should be banned...that should send his stupid opponent for a loop while appealing to critical independent swing voters who seem swayed by the Swiftboat ads.