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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (5652)	8/31/2004 10:17:15 PM
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Phyllis Schlafly Declares 'Total Victory' on GOP Platform Phyllis Schlafly, 80 years old and still going strong, is celebrating another triumph over the culture of death. "We had a total victory," she proclaimed after Republicans adopted a pro-life platform at the national convention. Story Continues Below The founder of Eagle Forum, Schlafly has attended every GOP presidential convention since 1952, including 11 times as a delegate or alternate. This year she's a delegate from Missouri. "After Rep. Roy Blunt, the third-ranking GOP House member, finished speaking to the Missouri delegation Tuesday, Schlafly was the first person he sought out. Blunt had read her latest book - 'The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It' - and liked it," the Associated Press reported today. The conservative icon said: "The most enjoyable part is walking around on the floor and seeing all my friends from other states. "No, I take that back. The most enjoyable part is winning."

To: calgal who wrote (5652)	8/31/2004 10:17:22 PM
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Pollster: Bush Ahead on Credibility, Kerry 'Betrayed' Veterans Today on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," host Joe Scarborough was speaking with pollster Frank Luntz. Story Continues Below The former Florida congressman asked Luntz why George W. Bush was ahead in the polls right now, even though John Kerry should have gotten a bump from the Democratic convention. Luntz answered: "The last ten days, it's over a single word, a single principle: credibility. That's what these Swift Boat ads have done. They've undermined Kerry's credibility, his veracity - and they've done it with John Kerry's own words. "I don't think the viewers at home realize just how important it is [that] they've got Kerry on videotape, they've got Kerry on radio ... you actually hear the accent, communicating what he felt. "We're in the middle of a war right now, and the American people in general and veterans in particular don't want to hear someone, 35 years ago, basically trashing the troops." Scarborough said, "The polls show this has less to do with what John Kerry actually did winning his medals in Vietnam than what he did when he came home. ..." Luntz added, "Exactly. And there's one word here that stands out - we did some focus groups in the last few days - and the word is betrayal. "That's how people feel. The language that he used, the fact that he said what he said back at that time, the veterans feel like they were betrayed." The pollster concluded, "If the Bush campaign were to pick up" on the theme of betrayal, it would hurt Kerry even more.