Ed "Dizzy" Gillespie, Rush "Anal Cyst" Limbaugh, and the rest of the motley crew have been unloading the big guns pretty earlier - before the primaries are even fully decided.
If their plan is to throw out what they can about Kerry to see what sticks and what slides, it seems to have an effect they weren't counting on - the fragrant scent of desperation.
The big guns so far have proven fairly limp thus far:
Hanoi John - Kerry was actually within a half-mile of Jane Fonda! Zoinks! He must be a soldier-hating commie pinko!
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Kerry's on the take - Believe it or not, Kerry has taken as much from "special interests" as Bush pulled in from Enron alone! Would you trust this man?
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Kerry took part in the Winter Soldier hearings - Well, actually he didn't, and the minute he saw the disrespectful cover on his book, he had it immediately removed and tried to collect the copies that already went out. As far war atrocities, that they happened is well-documented, and Kerry never suggested that they were committed by
every soldier in Vietnam. The fact that he protested the Free Fire Zone policy (high civilian casualties) while in Vietnam, yet continued to fight, indicates he is neither the self-promoter nor hippie radical the Right is suggesting. Nice try, though.
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The Smudge Report - Arnold Schwarzenneger once sagaciously declared, "Where there is smoke, there is fire - that is true." Well, clearly someone is blowing smoke up somewhere. Unfortunately for Smudge, the right wing talk radio, and about half of DU, there is no fire. The lady denied it, as did her folks - who said they'd vote Kerry. Silly rabbits.
Does anyone else notice a pattern here? As in, the GOP desperately reach for anything to get people thinking about anything besides the fact that Bush got his teeth checked in Alabama.
Maybe they should just ask Cheney what "other priorities" caused him to defer his service over and over again on his way to conquering the Middle East single-handedly, or why the Pentagon chickenhawks systematically ignored the advice of combat veterans in the State Department.
In the meantime, Kerry is coming out of all this smelling like a rose and making it clear that he's not going to Dukakis-out on us.
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