Time to take the gloves off........

[Fla Dem]

I love Jonathan Alter......and he wrote what I've been feeling ever since the repugs pulled out their dirty bag of tricks during the 1st Clinton campaign. It's time for us to start hitting back hard. It's time for the Kerry campaign to stop being girly men and women.:grr:


Shortly before the 1992 election, a World War II veteran approached NEWSWEEK and other major media outlets with an unsubstantiated story about how he said he saw President George H.W. Bush strafing unarmed Japanese fishermen in the Pacific when both men were young Navy fliers. None of us published or broadcast the explosive allegations until after the election, and if we had, Bill Clinton's campaign indicated it would have denounced them. The same thing happened in 2000, when a book called "Fortunate Son" alleged youthful illegal activities by George W. Bush. No one from Al Gore's campaign would touch the story until later, and the book was withdrawn by the publisher.

Contrast those with the case of the Swift Boat veterans, whose thoroughly discredited accounts of John Kerry's Vietnam service have been treated with respect and whose book is now a best seller.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5853704/site/newsweek /

[RummyTheDummy]

1. The gloves should have come off weeks ago

Amazing there is a loud faction here at DU who STILL thinks we can actually beat these clowns without taking them off and continuing to "play nice". Ain't gonna happen.

[noiretextatique]

2. "So much for any sense of decency"

:eyes: he got that right :kick:

[democratreformed]

3. Something my grandma told me about a week ago:

She said that often attack ads push people toward the person being attacked. She said that's the only reason she voted for Orval Faubus (governor of Arkansas loooooong ago) - because his opponents attacked him so vehemently. I don't know how true that is - but, my grandma said it and she certainly has much more experience than I do.

[BlueJazz]

4. Unfortunately, My Fellow DU'er...Your Grandmother

probably has an intelligent, thoughtful mind... not at all like the average
uninformed American.

[Fla Dem]

5. So true......they are defining who Kerry is for people who don't

look any deeper than the TV ads.

By the way, like yor tag line...gave me a good chuckle.