Bush Campaign Busted Passing Out “Swift Boat Veterans for Bush” Flyer

[oldhat]

Kerry press release, just issued...

Bush Campaign Busted Passing Out “Swift Boat Veterans for Bush” Flyer

Washington, DC - Despite constant denials, the Bush-Cheney campaign today was busted coordinating with the “Swift Boat Veterans for Bush” in their smear campaign against John Kerry. The following press release was issued this afternoon by the Florida Democratic Party. The evidence is attached.

“Bush Campaign Caught Promoting "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" While National Campaign Denies Coordination, Campaign in Florida Promotes Rally

Tallahassee -- On the same day that the Bush-Cheney campaign repeatedly denied coordinating attacks with the anti-Kerry group "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," the Bush-Cheney campaign in Florida was caught promoting a rally in Gainesville for the group.

A flyer being distributed at the Alachua County Republican party headquarters, which doubles as the Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters for the county, promotes a weekend rally sponsored by "Swift Boat Vets for Truth, Veterans for Bush, Alachua Bush/Cheney Committee," and others.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_15_atrios_archive.html#109303885084378264

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. could this be the reason for the complaint with the FEC?

[Born Free]

87. Time to smoke bush out from hiding

It's time American taunt bush enough to smoke him out from hiding, he always has a way of talking tough but always manages to hide behind someone else whenever things go wrong. It's time bush is forced to stand up like a man and address this character issue. He claims to take the high road, let's force him to do that, let him bring his military records out and discuss what HE did during Vitnam just as John Kerry is forced to discuss what he did. Taunting bush will force him out, he is a tough talking chicken and if he is called that enough he will cracxk under pressure and come out crying, then Amercans can see the pathetic idvdidual he is. The battle cry must be "time to taunt bush" time to make him standup like a man, if he is half the man he wants people to believe he is, he will accept the challenge...

[radfringe]

88. wait for the "official spin"

first they will again deny having a connection, then they will blame it on "over-zealous" staffers

if that doesn't work - it will be some statement saying - "..although we have no connection to swiftboaters, we respect freedom of speech...."

[bklyncowgirl]

91. Overzealous Local Pary loyalists not approved by the national campeign

It'll be bullshit but they'll probably be able to cover their asses unless someone's got some proof this came from national Bush/Cheney headquarters.

I sure hope we can nail them on this but I'm realistic.

[gatlingforme]

109. Me too. They will come up with something lame to explain it away

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Whoops!!

:bounce:

[Skinner]

3. Here's the flyer that came with the press release

[annabanana]

7. So... what's the email for the FEC?

They ought to get a few copies of this, right?

[stevedeshazer]

20. That flyer says it all

'Time to go play in the "lefties" sandbox'

[TahitiNut]

25. That flyer clearly shows felonious coordination ...

... between "Swift Boat Vets for Truth (sic)" and "Alachua Bush/Cheney Committee." Without question, that's a smoking gun.

(I won't hold my breath for the FEC, however.)

[seafan]

59. Interesting tidbit from the Miami Herald:

CRAWFORD, Texas - A volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla., promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has insisted for weeks it has no connection to.

<snip>


At Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters outside Washington, spokesman Steve Schmidt said: "The Bush-Cheney campaign has nothing to do with that piece of paper. ... I don't know how it showed up at the campaign headquarters."


"The Bush-Cheney campaign would object to any flier like this being displayed in any Republican headquarters," said Schmidt. He characterized the campaign operation in Gainesville where the flier was found as county GOP offices used by Bush-Cheney volunteers....

<snip>


....a Kerry volunteer in Gainesville, says he went to the GOP offices there Thursday and picked up the flier from a pile of literature on the table.
"The flier they gave me was on the same table as some Bush-Cheney bumper stickers," said Shilling. "I asked them if the Swift boat veterans were coming to Gainesville, and the woman I talked to said yes."


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/9455783.htm

[proud patriot]

68. I'm clicking every link to this story I can

Wheeeeeeeee !

[drfemoe]

71. bring a picnic

basket .. no free lunch!!!
If your family is in the basket, so much the better.

WHAT A LOSER!!
GET HIM OUTTA HERE!!!

We Want Our Country BACK!!

overly excited as usual,
drf.

[Name removed]

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[Cooley Hurd]

77. Really? Got proof?

Post it, if so...:eyes:

[Guaranteed]

84. Democrat org, eh? nt

[mom cat]

4. This is too good for words! Thanks...

[tlcandie]

5. oopsie!!!!!

:bounce:

Can't believe this!! Seems too easy! I'm blinking heavily!! You sure this is real and it isn't a dream?!

[RamboLiberal]

6. Skinner posted Kerry Press Release on this here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=643766&mesg_id=643766

[proud patriot]

8. WHEEEEEEEEEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Whoop there it is B-)

[LynneSin]

51. WWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Gotta share your enthusiasm!!

[proud patriot]

69. Awe your Wheeeeeee looks better than mine

:think:

;-)

:loveya:

[Tight_rope]

83. Kick to the Whoop there it is!

[tlcandie]

9. You are kidding me that not more people are kicking this?!?!

:kick:

AMAZING news!!!!

[trogdor]

10. You mean like this?

:kick:

Get the bastards!

[thecrow]

11. KICK KICK KICK!!!!!!!

KEEP THIS :kick: 'ed!!!!

[Disturbed]

12. Right Wing Tactics.

The use whatever they can get away with against their enemies.

[The Stranger]

13. The media outlets need to pick this up.

[Tight_rope]

14. Good..Busted fucking scumbags!

[democrat_patriot]

15. KICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bluzmann57]

16. Obviously this is against the law

Or at least it used to be. And add my KICK to this thread. Get the bastards.

[NJGeek]

17. DEMS: Please get the media whores to whip this one up!!!

Do your best.

[Jaybird]

18. kick

[bringbackfdr]

19. I know this would never happen ...

And probably isn't very smart politically. But I'd love to see Kerry show up their little Nazi rally and stare down these assholes.

[lowreed]

55. An impromptu stroll through Central Park would be cool. nt

.

[HuckleB]

21. The sleazebags done got caught!

If the press doesn't pick this up and fly with it, well, ugh. That'll be par for the course.

[MO_Dem]

22. I was really disappointed

that this wasn't mentioned on CBS news tonight!

[bullimiami]

23. the title is pro usa political rally but

if you read the agenda it is purely a bash-kerry rally. nothing pro about it.
i guess thats all they have.

[wryter2000]

24. Someone pinch me

Have we really nailed them? Please, please tell me we have.

Reassure me that they can't make similar credible links between Kerry and Moveon, please.

[GimmeDANEger]

26. Even is Kerry has ties to Moveon.org

have they ever actually inserted blatant lies in their ads? Besides the 2 Nazi ads in the Bush in 30 Seconds contest (which were submissions by citizens, not of Move On), I don't believe they have so those ties would prove to be harmless.

[bobbyboucher]

29. Huh?

Trouble following. Let me help you. MoveOn was formed in 1998 in response to the ridiculous Clinton cockhunt and has been active ever since. There are no ties to Kerry.

Swifties were formed right after Kerry became the front-runner and have obvious ties to Bush (not to mention the flyers).

[GimmeDANEger]

81. Oh yes

I definately know Bush and SBV have ties, but I was thinking that someone in the Kerry camp may have donated money to Move On or something. I wasn't necessarily going back to the origin of the organization.

[tedzbear]

27. Boohahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:kick: *

[tlcandie]

28. Reminds me of a song....

"Shame, shame, shame..... Shame on you..."

Who did that one, anyone recall? Will search for lyrics to see if it could work!

LoL :bounce:

[Kierkegaard]

36. Sounds like you are talking about Aretha Franklin's

Chain of fools... applies even better!

[tlcandie]

40. There you go!!! thanks!! eom

[Happy Eddie]

38. tlcandle, that was Shirley and Company n/t

:dem:

[playahata1]

111. Shirley and Company, 1974.

One of the first big disco hits.

"Shame, shame, shame.... Shame on you/If you can't dance, too."

[wishlist]

30. Craig Crawford just mentioned this direct connection on Hardball

and Tom Oliphant said that it was very stupid of Bushco to have the Swiftboat ad sponsored by people with such extremely close connections and Andrea Mitchell mentioned that the newest ad was even produced by the same people who produced the anti-McCain ad. Oliphant did a good job of pointing out that the Swiftboat liars directly contradict either their own previous statements or the official records so they do not meet any credibility test.

Betcha there is some furious internet scrubbing going on.

[HuckleB]

32. I still can't find it covered by an Internet media outlet.

WTF?

[demokatgurrl]

98. It's on Yahoo

here:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=5&u=/ap/20040821/ap_on_el_pr/bush_swift_boats

[54anickel]

42. I thought Oliphant did a great job last night on Lehrer against O'Neill.

[wicket]

31. Spread jam on Bush, he's toast!!!!

n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Oh, great. That's a mental image I could do without. Thanks a lot. (nt)

[wicket]

43. Hehehehehehehe

:D

[goclark]

60. He just popped out of my TOASTER !!

And that slimy Rove is still stuck in there.

I think I'll just keep uncle Karl in the Toaster until he gets a real tan with smoke coming out -LOL

Pop goes the weasel!

[Jane Austin]

33. How could you not donate . . .

To a site that brings you such great news as this? :)

Thank Skinner - - donate today.

[bluedog]

34. Its on YAHOO.........NOW

rate this story

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040821/ap_on_el_pr/bush_swift_boats_1

[proud patriot]

35. I rated the Yahoo story a 5

Oh Yeah !

[polmaven]

39. I LOVE it!

A campaign spokesman says the Bush/Cheney campaign has "nothing to do with that piece of paper" and he doesn't know how it got there.

READ THE FLYER, MR. SCHMIDT! The first participant listed is SBVFT. The fourth is the Bush/Cheney committee! NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT PIECE OF PAPER????? I hope the reporters get out of the way so they don't get hit when this guy's nose keeps growing!

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[tlcandie]

41. Lyrics.... to Aretha's "Chain of Fools"

Someone creative can readjust them to use just for this regime!!! :bounce:

Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain, chain, chain
(Chain... chain... chain... )
(Chain of fools)

For five long years
I thought you were my man
But I found out, I?m just a link in your chain
Oh, you got me where you want me
I ain?t nothin but your fool
Ya treated me mean
Oh you treated me cruel

Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain
Chain of fools)

Every chain, has got a weak link


EDIT: There's more but these seemed most appropriate!

[TransitJohn]

44. Kick for truth!!!!!!!!!!!

:kick:

[EST]

45. Way kool!

sigh

[DoYouEverWonder]

46. Here's some pics that I just took

from the Republican Headquarters in Alachua County, which is also serving has the Bu$h Campaign Headquarters.




This is the front entrance at 1212 N. Main St. Gainesville FL




Looking through the glass doors you can see an easel, with announcements about upcoming events. On the right side of the display is the flyer for the Pro USA Political Rally.


Sure looks like the Bush campaign headquarters is totally supporting this event.

[bluedog]

47. damn.....real Proof!!!!!!!!

yea......what an excellent idea...good job grapping these photos.......

[JerseygirlCT]

48. Yup! And kicking this to keep it up! nt

[IkeWarnedUs]

63. Can you go to the rally tomorrow or Sunday?

I was just thinking, I hope someone in the area will be able to go to the rally this weekend and take some pictures and/or video. Were you planning to do so?

I hope you will forward your pictures to the Kerry campaign - as well as to the media.

Btw, I went to the Alachua County Republican Party website. I couldn't find any mention of this rally, but they have all sorts of stories about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on the home page.

Link: http://www.gopalachua.com/

[DoYouEverWonder]

64. Yes, I'm planning to go by tomorrow afternoon

and I'll be sure to take my camera.

BTW: Do you have an email or anything for the Kerry Campaign? I'd love to send them these pics.

Thanks

[IkeWarnedUs]

73. I just sent you some contact info

To your inbox

[TahitiNut]

67. Good work! That's frosting on the smoking gun cake.

It's not just that they're announcing the picnic. It's that it's a joint campaign event between the Swifties and the Bush/Cheney campaign! How abysmally stupid do they have to be to do something like this after all the media furor??? (I've left stuff in the commode with more intelligence and integrity.)

[SilasSoule]

72. Erruhhh....gotta give this a

:kick:

[enigmatic]

82. I love that picture...

I have to fid some way to put on my radio station page..

[masshole]

108. This Oswald pic is great btw

stared at it for a minute thinking "something's odd.." lol

[Gruenemann]

112. REALLY not funny, although

when I first saw this I thought it was great. I've seen the original pic since I was eight years old. But then I read an article about Oswald's daughter...you can imagine how hard her life has been. No mention was made of this photo, but I'm sure she's run across it all her life too. Whatever else it is, it's a picture of someone's daddy getting blown away. Not funny at all, no matter what you do to it.

[nolabels]

79. Second bad lie I have encountered today, thanks for the info

:kick:

[Exploding Kitchen]

80. Doesn't get much clearer than that...

...and it passes the photoshop test of this net-evidence skeptic.

Thank you!

[DoYouEverWonder]

92. Appreciate the stamp of approval

There is no way that I could have even tried to fake those pics on such short notice. Especially since the Republican Headquarters had already been closed for the day by the time the news broke. That was one of the reasons why I posted the pics last night, in order to document time and place.

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

[Exploding Kitchen]

99. Thanks for the welcome!

Been lurking for a while, and finally found something to post on. ;)

[demokatgurrl]

93. YOUR PICTURES

Sorry if you already did this (this is my first post!).
Please get these to a newspaper. Mark them "copyright.." and ask that they be printed. If you can, e-mail them to the NY Times. I have seen this story only online on Yahoo news, it has to get out there.

Thanks for getting the evidence!

[Name removed]

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[Ripley]

52. First of all...

Moveon.org does not claim to be Smirk's brethren in arms from TANG days. Secondly, no other group supporting Kerry makes up outright LIES about how Kerry was wounded or acted when they weren't there. Lots of evidence Kerry earned everything he got. Zero evidence Your Shrub spent one day doing TANG duty in Alabama for a whole freaking year.

Get it?

[tlcandie]

53. Walking a fine, THIN line there KKKKomrade Kerry....

:hi:

EDIT: Oopsie the KKKKK key is sticking! :+

[Komrade Kerry]

54. Realists not welcome?

This election is not about who has ties to what 527 group when most Americans don't care!! The reality is certain groups support Kerry and others supports W, you're asking the average voter to somehow differentiate between the two because we say so. We should better concentrate our efforts on real reasons why Kerry needs to win.

P.S. if moderate democrats are not allowed on this board let me know. It won't be that hard to give up after getting flamed after one post.

[tlcandie]

61. Prolly not when they refer to the next First Lady as a bitch and

suggest she get locked away and throw away the key if JFK is to beat GWB.

:shrug: But that is JUST a wild, random guess!

That comment can be read at this LINK:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x765933

[Chomskyite]

57. It's illegal to coordinate

And your party is coordinating. That's the rub.

And until the 527 groups gave us a bit of an advantage (temporary I'm sure) in money to be spent in an election cycle, you guys were ALL FOR no regulations in election campaigns, weren't you?

Now you change your tune.

[LiberalFighter]

56. What would had cooked their goose....

if the event had been taped for evidence.

[DoYouEverWonder]

58. The event isn't until tomorrow

at the Downtown Plaza in Gainesville.

[Dhalgren]

62. If the event goes ahead, unchanged, then

we will know that Bush has the fix in. If they cancel it or change the participants, then we'll know they are lying, chickenshit bastards! Oh...wait...we already know that. :)

[tlcandie]

65. Very good point there Dhalgren! eom

[Nashyra]

66. Kick

[drfemoe]

70. YE-AHH

whooooo hoooooo ..
kick RW butt !!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5771731

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082104W.shtml

[Dem2theMax]

74. Keeping it kicked.

:kick:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

76. Well now who'd have thought such a thing?

I'm shocked, I tell you...totally shocked!

[TaleWgnDg]

78. None of these guys can get their stories . . .

straight. And it stinks to high heaven. Here's Larry Thurlow caught like deadmeat on a butcher's hanger, and the guy still maintains he's a truth-teller. UNREAL!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5751284/

Is it machismo? book sale profits? power? revenge (for what?)? an inability to see things objectively? or merely hurt pride in what these twisted Nam vets perceive was Kerry's agenda when he gave testimony before congress about the VietNam War? Frankly, I believe it's the latter, pride.

However, it all boils down to stupidity. These "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" are any but truthful! One wonders what the hell ELSE is fermenting in the bowels of rightwing Texas areas?

[0007]

85. This is so juicey

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:
:kick: :kick:
:kick:

[Judi Lynn]

86. Just heard this story mentioned on CBS radio news at 6:00 am, EST

Kick, kick, kick!

[MagickMuffin]

89. KARL ROVE: THE KING OF DIRT

Seems like Rove has been caught with his pants down....

Below is a excerpt from Wayne Madsen

The target for such a campaign is Karl Rove, George W. Bush's political Svengali, and the chief instigator of character assassination campaigns against those who challenge the policies of the Bush administration. Democrats, progressives and the liberally inclined must learn to fight fire with fire, Rove tactics against Rove tactics. This evil practitioner of political chicanery earned his stripes first as an apprentice of Richard Nixon's dirty trickster, Donald Segretti. Rove then went on to hone and refine his duplicitous craft under Republican National Committee chairmen George H. W. Bush, Lee Atwater, and, finally, George W. Bush (who affectionately and alternately calls Rove his "boy genius" and "turd blossom").

After trashing the personal character of former Texas Democratic Governors Mark White and Ann Richards, Texas Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett, and Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, Rove now uses his Felix the Cat-like bag of dirty tricks to assassinate the characters of noble and non-political men and women. It is clearly time to take action against Rove, and give this maniac a taste of his own bitter medicine.

Over the years, Rove has relied on the planting of bogus stories in the media, production of counterfeit documents, the theft of campaign materials and internal documents, production of false witnesses, electronic eavesdropping, misuse of government resources, unethical political polling techniques, intimidation of minority voters, and "whispering campaigns" to advance the sordid agenda of the neo-conservative, extreme right wing of the Republican Party.

[fedupwithbush]

90. Kick

Yeah!}(

[bear425]

94. Was watching Hardball last night

And Andrea Mitchell, journalist extraordinaire (not), quickly cut in to the comment about the flyer being handed out at the RNC Headquarters in Alachua. At least it got a mention - more to come I hope!

[Razoor]

95. wonder how bush will spin his way out of this?

probably blame someone else

[laylah]

96. Well...

zippity, doo dah, freakin' day! :bounce: and a :kick:

Jenn

[liberalcanuck]

97. After all the shit these slimeballs have done I still doubt this will

amount to the smoking gun we need. I sincerely hope it is or something else comes out to sink these mofos. Rove is the dirtiest of political tricksters whom to anyone with a shred of a sense is an out-and-out criminal.

I'd LOVE to see him in handcuffs. Ohhh please let that day come.

:kick:

[bogey18]

100. Nothing will happen to these guys,

Hasn't it become clear that when one side controls all 3 branches of government anything can happen without consequences? Public outrage isn't going to happen because it would take more than 10 one syllable words to explain that this is FUCKING ILLEGAL.

[mbperrin]

101. Kick

again!

[bogey18]

102. I am fairly new around here, and I haven't quite figured out

exacxtly what "kick" means.

[Maeve]

103. Each reply sends a thread back up the page

So a "kick" is a post that is intended to keep a thread on the front page of the forum, near the top, where it will be seen by more people.

Excessive kicking is frowned on, however.

[bogey18]

104. Thanks

I guess this served as another "kick"

[Berserker]

105. This just in...............

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040821/ap_on_el_pr/bush_swift_boats_1

At Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters outside Washington, spokesman Steve Schmidt said: "The Bush-Cheney campaign has nothing to do with that piece of paper. ... I don't know how it showed up at the campaign headquarters." LMAO Nothing like a good laugh in the morning.

[HuckleB]

106. That's funny.

[Selwynn]

107. Topic #841 that everyone thinks matters that totally doesn't

You are ought of your mind if you think this is going to have some kind of serious affect on Bush at all. Bush will just distance himself from this county headquarters, saying they were not acting appropriately at that level, and move on.

[Judi Lynn]

110. Thanks to DoYouEverWonder for the excellent look at the campaign HQ's

and KICK the story!



(This photo I found at google shows basketball players from the '20's trying to learn "the Charleston" in the believe it would make them better athletes.....)

Kick, kick, kick.