Kerry Needs To Say Something SHOCKING and CONTROVERSIAL!!

[Beetwasher]

Notice how Cheney and Chimpy get the headlines and drive the stories?

Cheney essentially say, "A vote for Cheney is a vote for a terror attack" and it's automatic headlines. It's shocking, over the top and controversial and therefore INSTANT headline, INSTANT story!

Kerry needs to start doing this. I recommend something along the lines of "Bush is a wimp for backing out of the debates!" Bush would go ballistic and that could only be good for Kerry.

Anyone got any other good ones?

[MissB]

1. You mean something like "W is for Wrong"?

That's what he said today. He got airtime.

[Beetwasher]

2. Not Controversial Enough, IMO

I heard that one, it's just not cutting enough.

[rocktivity]

17. W is for War Criminal?

:headbang:
rocknation

[sendero]

3. I've been saying this..

... forever but somehow the Kerry campaign is not listening to me :)

TV wants to dish dirt, they want drama, they want fireworks - that is what gets viewers. Bland policy statements, regardless of how important they might be, do not get viewers. The pukes figured that out long ago, that's why you hear these daft over-the-top pronouncements from their camp, but you hear nothing from ours.

Kerry needs to not only criticize Bush*, but do so in an ENTERTAINING way. The "media" will run that when they won't run "blah, blah, blah,etc, etc, etc" type statements.

[59millionmorons]

4. Yes

911 happened on Bush's watch, now he wants your vote. He has already proven he cannot protect you. That should be good for a few headlines.

[kentuck]

5. I agree with this strategy Beetwasher..

Especially in this time.

Bush and Cheney have taken their biggest failure and are running on it as if it's their biggest success.

George Bush is the biggest flip-flopper of all time! He is the master flip flopper!

[NightOwwl]

6. This is about the 5th thread I've seen on this.

Here's the link to Cheney's comment, Edward's rebuttal, and Cheney's flip-flop. Edwards was great. Let's give him some credit.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5936960/

ETA: I agree Kerry should force the issue of the debates. And if Bush won't step up to the table then Kerry should debate without him.

[Beetwasher]

9. Edwards Statement Was Good, But

too nice IMO.

They need to get on the edge I think and say something like "Bush and Cheney had their opportunity to protect this country from terrorists and they failed. They were warned that Bin Laden was determined to strike and they went on vacation."

[hippiegranny]

22. thanks for the link

did you all take the poll on that page? I'm telling you, this is NOT as close as the whores would have you think.

If the presidential election were held this week, who would you vote for? * 698715 responses


George W. Bush
46%

John Kerry
52%

Ralph Nader
2%

[MichiganVote]

7. He does. He is telling Americans the truth. Shock and awe.

[The Straight Story]

8. Maybe he should grab a cup of joe and say this to bush :) (adult language)

[bushwakker]

10. "Mr. Bush, why did you not fulfill your National Guard service?

this flurry of interest in Bush's past will blow over unless Kerry pushed the media to stay on the case.

[ClassWarrior]

11. Why don't YOU push the media to stay on the case??

Christ, who's stopping YOU from writing a LTTE or calling CNN or visiting your local newspaper editor and giving him or her a large chunk of your mind??

Why do some people think that the candidate has to do everything for them? Too busy watching soaps and eating bon-bons to get involved??

After all, who's going to have more credibility in an editor's eyes?? A self-interested politician, or one of his own audience??

[bushwakker]

16. Yes I'm sure the Bush campaign will be compelled to respond

to my email to CNN.

[ClassWarrior]

26. No, but CNN will. Or they may not be able to deliver your eyeballs to ING.

[Bertrand]

12. I disagree

actually Rove is hoping for that, as was the case when the talking heads on the right were already breaking out there talking points over Kerrys rebuttle to Bushs RNC speech. They would love to stick the "he's cracking/cant handle the pressure" meme to further make their campaign about him being unfit for command while Bush is a strong leader, etc.

What i want to see is Edwards playing more of the Cheney role despite the "hope" rhetoric he adopted for his campaign in the primaries. The Democrats definitley need to continue to push for the offensive, including throwing back the mud that was slung by Bush first.

[Erika]

15. Kerry Is Doing Wonderfully!

America was shock and awed into quiet submission by the Bushco and painted as traitors if anyone dared to object to Bush's war plans. Mr. Kerry has shown the emperor has no clothes and Dr. Dean helped show him the way!

[Raya]

13. NO, NO. Well funded 3rd party vicious, scandalous attack works better.

Ask Rove.

[ClassWarrior]

14. Yup. Let Howard Dean and Michael Moore raise the hell!!

[kanrok]

18. How 'bout:

"Bush can suck my dick!"

[oasis]

19. Bush and 9/11: "He locked the barn door after the horse got out".

[Thrill]

20. How about

Reminding people everyday. That 9-11 happened under Dubya.

[osaMABUSh]

21. "Shove it" got a lot of play

[Nancy Waterman]

23. I continue to think he should challenge Bush's loyalty to Americans

Every policy of Bush's has benefited the corporate elite at the expense of our health (environmental issues) and our jobs (outsourcing) and our children's future (deficit/tax cuts). There have been "troubling" charges that Bush has covered up the Saudi connection to 9/11. Just where do bush's loyalties lie?

[depakid]

24. It's the only way that Kerry can expect to get any press

or set the agenda. The fact that the campaign has been playing it so cautious is the main reason that they're not leading across the board at this point- and if they continue, it could cost us the election.

I don't know why Kerry doesn't just come right out and call both he and Cheney liars- because that's exactly what they are and there's more than ample evidence to back it up on issue after issue.

Also, I agree- Kerry could call Bush a coward for backing out of the debate AND for screening out his audiences- even to the point of where people have been arrested for wearing T-shirts! He could contrast that with his own rallies, which get much less attention, despite their larger more diverse crowds.

[OneBlueSky]

25. I still like "Bush is an environmental disaster!" . . .

lots of evidence to back it up . . . and it's an issue they DO NOT want raised in any meaningful way . . . which is precisely why Kerry should raise it in a very meaningful way, imo . . .

[sampsonblk]

27. He's pounding them with the truth now, what else do you want?

What's more shocking than the truth about the Bush admin?