When is Kerry going to get a real campaign manager?

[MikeG]

This campaign is inept. Where's Carville?

[sangh0]

1. Some people just hate the fact

that Kerry's #;s have been improving

[lancdem]

2. ???

He's doing fine in my book.

[MikeG]

3. Whatever happened to rapid response?

Punishment of idiot unnamed Democrats talking to the press?
A campaign manager that other Democrats won't fuck with?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. Why do you believe the lies that the media tells you?

Why?

[Cocoa]

27. not just believe it

but internalize it, and spread it further.

Why?

[MontecitoDem]

31. This doesn't need rapid response

why do you think this news story is such a bad thing?

Personally, I think it's a political manuever that will help Kerry in the end, not hurt him. But we won't know for a while.

And people saying that it makes the eventual VP choice look second best - who cares? Is it gonna change one single vote away from Kerry if his eventual VP choice is considered by some to be 2nd best?

Damn, handwringing Saturday morning threads are getting me Down!

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4. Inept?

So is your post.

[MikeG]

7. You think everything is peachy. This isn't like 92.

They're gonna play dirty.

[leyton]

12. Right... and...

what else is Kerry supposed to do? He's run a fantastic campaign so far. I don't know what you're expecting... when the time comes, Kerry will play dirty if necessary. Read up on the 1996 race with Gov. Weld.

[LandOLincoln]

33. They've been playing dirty all along. Who do you think is the

true source for this latest Kerry/McCain flap?

And why are you so willing to buy it wholesale?

[MikeG]

5. McCain turns down VP offer? Huh? Who let this happen?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

10. Do you believe every lie told to you by the media?

Why?

[MikeG]

14. They got confirmation by a Democratic official.

And the offer was a weasel offer.

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[MikeG]

17. Hear a denial yet?

That in itself is inept.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

19. Yes. It;s been denied by both Kerry and McCain.

So why are you still spreading a lie?

[MikeG]

20. I haven't heard the denial yet. Just the weasel words.

[sangha]

22. I haven't heard you deny lots of things

Where were you the night before JFK was shot?

[MikeG]

24. In the foyer with Col. Mustard. and a candlestick.

[MikeG]

21. Reread the story. I'm not lying.

They left deniability. The overture was wrong in whatever form it took.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

29. No, you aren't lying, you are repeating a lie. My question is, why?

[LandOLincoln]

34. Oh they did, did they? And just who was this mysterious

"Democratic official?"

& can anyone really be this naive?

[jjmalonejr]

6. Puh-leeez

[MikeG]

8. Live in your dream world while they turn Kerry into Dukakis.

Remember, stupid Fox News whore Susan Estrich ran that campaign.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. The fact that he is ahead of Bush nationally, and in the battleground

states, is immaterial, eh? :shrug:

[MikeG]

13. It isn't November yet. This election still can be lost.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

16. So if the polls don't matter, and the facts don't matter

the only thing that matters is the latest right wing lie spread by the media?

Why are you spreading this lie?

[Gloria]

18. If this came from a campaign staffer who came from another campaign

then they should all be rooted out and kicked out the door.

That's the 4th story (the second time for this one) that is coming out of Boston. There is that two bit reporter on that Boston paper that's putting out stuff and he's getting it from somewhere.

[sangha]

23. What makes you say that?

he's getting it from somewhere

Maybe he's getting it from the same place Jayson Blair got his.

[Gloria]

25. Because a two-bit reporter in Boston is a convenient way to

spread this sort of thing. There are also elements in Boston that detest Kerry. It could be coming from a few places, mischief to either screw the campaign OR accomplish another goal...It's happened multiple times from this reporter......

[sangha]

40. Could be?

Are you seriously arguing that because it "could be" coming from a few places it "must be" really true?

[David Zephyr]

26. I Think Kerry Is Doing Just Fine.

He's ahead in almost every poll, he's raising money.

And he is not scaring away undecided voters who are more and more turning off to Bush.

Kerry creamed my candidate, Howard Dean.

Let's just get behind him and quit second guessing everything he does.

Kerry can not and should not respond to every daily news report.

MikeG, I respect your wish to see more action, but look at the polls at where Kerry was just three months ago and where he is now.

[Cocoa]

28. don't blame Kerry's campaign manager

it's not his fault you are believing this story. That's your own fault.

[WilliamPitt]

30. Why? You looking for work?

Kerry leads strongly in every major poll except one. The LA Times has him at 52 to Bush's 44. Clearly, however, your keen strategic mind can do better.

Or something.

:eyes:

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[WilliamPitt]

35. No solutions forthcoming from your tactical brilliance

except to summon the names Dukakis and Carville.

I'm in awe that Kerry hasn't handed his campaign over to you yet. Stay by your phone. I'm sure he'll be calling you soon.

[MikeG]

36. I'd have to take a cut in pay.

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[MikeG]

38. Gee. Insult after insult. That's constructive.

Remember Bucky Dent?

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