9/8/04
55 days until election day Kaitlyn Mae, and frankly, on this day, not much different than normal.
Except the Democrats are really mad.
And one more tidbit, Kaitlyn. Grandmother, against all odds, listened to a John Kerry speech this afternoon. It was all the same old, same old. EXCEPT, Kaitlyn Mae, he kept brushing against the one argument the man may have to divide the electorate.
It scares the hell out of me.
For Kerry referred frequently and often to funds being diverted to the war in Iraq when right here in America “children are denied after-school care, 40 million Americans do not have health insurance and global warming is causing many hurricanes”.
Okay, Grandmother paraphrases and out and out lies with that bit about the hurricanes. Still, the Clinton influence on Kerry’s words is obvious. If ever a near reasonable argument could be made against the war in Iraq, it would be the diversion of funds and resources from America’s domestic needs to a distant and too little understood war.
Not that children should even be in school when classes are over and when did this become a national entitlement? And where on earth does that 40 million figure on health care come from?
Still, it’s the one talking point I think would resonate with reasonable Americans. Though Grandmother doesn’t believe for a minute that Americans feel the absence of after school care as indicator of poverty. As for the forty million without health care, well Grandmother suspects that this is probably how many people don’t have health care due to lack of jobs and possibly transition from job to job. What’s Kerry saying, we should pull out of Iraq and provide free health care to all Americans who don’t have it?
Which is to say, Kaitlyn, while it might be a resonating argument, Kerry will have to come up with actual starving American children before it will strike a chord.
Still, the talking point has all the earmarks of the wiser Clintons who know needy liberals when they see them. It sure is a better argument than Kerry’s constant harping on his Vietnam heroism, all bogus at any rate.
Finally, below an actual email Grandmother received from the Republican National Committee regarding the rocky days ahead. More nasty books attacking the President, more of the same.
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September 8, 2004
To: Bush-Cheney '04 Grassroots Team
From: Ed Gillespie, Republican National Committee Chairman
Subject: Brace Yourselves
In response to President Bush's Agenda for America's Future and a critique of his policies and Senate record, Senator Kerry's campaign is implementing a strategy of vicious personal attacks against the President and Vice President.
The campaign is bringing in a bevy of former Clinton henchmen, including CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala. In August alone, Begala called President Bush a "gutless wonder," said he has a "lack of intelligence," and called Vice President Cheney a "dirt bag." Carville said the President is "ignorant big time" and said "George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are a couple of nobodies."
It's not like Bob Shrum needed encouragement to engage in personal attacks. At a Kerry rally Friday morning in Ohio, campaign surrogate John Glenn compared the Republican Convention to a Nazi rally, and Kerry called the President unfit to lead our nation and once again sought to divide the country by who served and how 35 years ago.
Of course, the President was called a "cheap thug," a "killer" and a "liar" at a Kerry-Edwards campaign event in New York, Mrs. Kerry has called the President's policies "unpatriotic" and "immoral" and DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe falsely accused the President of being AWOL.
Democratic strategist Susan Estrich outlined the strategy last Wednesday in a column warning Republicans to "watch out." "I'm not promising pretty," she wrote before going on to call President Bush and Vice President Cheney alcoholics, then ask "is any alcoholic ever really cured?" ("I can see the ad now.") She deems the President's service as a National Guard fighter pilot "draft dodging," and says, "a forthcoming book by Kitty Kelly raises questions about whether the President has practiced what he preaches on the issue of abortion." (Interestingly, the New York Daily News reported back in February that the Kerry campaign intended to spread such a rumor in pro-life chat rooms late in the campaign.)
So the former Dukakis campaign manager has an advance copy of Democrat donor Kitty Kelly's book, which promises to throw unsubstantiated gossip at President Bush in the same way she falsely maligned the late President Reagan as a date rapist who paid for a girlfriend's abortion and wrongly castigated Nancy Reagan as an adulterer who had an affair with Frank Sinatra. A recent story says Kelly's book alleges President Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was President, which is as credible as her story that then Governor and Nancy Reagan smoked marijuana with Jack Benny and George and Gracie Burns.
And tonight on CBS, longtime Democratic operative Ben Barnes-a friend of, major contributor to and Nantucket neighbor of Senator Kerry's and vice chair of the Kerry Campaign--will repudiate his statement under oath that he had no contact with the Bush family concerning the President's National Guard service. (Anyone surprised that Barnes would contradict a statement he made under oath probably doesn't know his long history of political scandal and financial misdealings.)
So brace yourselves. Any mention of John Kerry's votes for higher taxes and against vital weapons programs will be met with the worst kind of personal attacks. Such desperation is unbecoming of American Presidential politics, and Senator Kerry will pay a price for it at the polls as we stay focused on policies to continue growing our economy and winning the War on Terror.
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