"If Kerry Wins, My Children Will Die"

[jedicord]

That's what Glenn Beck said on his AM radio show this morning (yeah, I know, but I try to hear as many sides of the issues as I can. I also drink a lot.).

A woman called in agreeing with him. He was "kidding", but she was serious. I was on the road so I didn't hear why she thought so.

I've been saying for months (years, really) that Repubs never argue the issues, they only attack character.

Is this the new conservative tactic? Vote Bush or your children will die? Don't they realize that, ironically, directly because of Bush almost 900 American children have died in the past year?

On edit: added quotes to title

[Hoping4Change]

1. You know the Repukes deserve Bush . Too bad they ain't gonna

git thir wish.

[classof56]

2. Chances are...

If Kerry is elected, my children/grandchildren will eventually die. That part is one of those inevitabilities nobody likes to dwell on too much. But if Bush is elected, I KNOW my children/grandchildren and probably a whole lot more of us will die a whole lot sooner. Sorry, but that's where he's heading us, and I seem to recall that when he was asked how he would like history to remember him, he replied that it really wouldn't matter, 'cause we'd all be dead.

The 900+ of our children who've already died in Bush's stupid war give testimony to his lack of care or concern about any of us. He makes me absolutely furious, and I continue to remain...

The Tired Old Cynic

[Zorra]

3. So, how many of us have died in violent attacks since Bu$h

was selected? Between four and five thousand?

And more every day.

And that's a fact.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. beck is a big fat gooey blob of smarm

come to life and given a radio show

[Guaranteed]

5. He said more than a year ago that if we still hadn't found

WMD's in a year, he'd apologize, and that the Bush administration would have some explaining to do.

Call him on that one.

[FrenchieCat]

6. That is why John Kerry needs to

read this article BEFORE picking his VP.....

an article not written by the usual Presstitute suspects.....

But by Kenneth S. Baer, a former senior speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7927

The Last Hurdle
John Kerry's biggest problem -- still -- is the national security gap. Here's how he can close it.
By Kenneth S. Baer
Web Exclusive: 06.23.04

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In Washington, the only question on anyone's mind is: WWJD -- What Will John Do? Everyone has a theory about whom John Kerry will pick (or should pick) as his running mate, and journalists are scrambling for any angle on the story that they can find.

Last Friday, The Washington Post ran one of the most interesting accounts of where Kerry's thinking may or may not be. While the article was filled with rampant speculation by a panoply of unnamed sources, one observation stuck out. According to the Post: "Friends say Kerry believes he has passed a national security threshold with voters that has freed him to tap a vice presidential candidate who complements him in other ways."

If these "friends" of Kerry were really his friends, they would inform him that, sadly, this is not the case. In fact, the only thing keeping George W. Bush in this race is that John Kerry has not yet met this "national security threshold" with the electorate. Voters still give the President a commanding lead on the questions of who can best protect the nation from terrorists and who is a stronger, more patriotic leader. Fortunately for Kerry, these sentiments say more about the Democratic party -- and voters' lingering doubts about Democrats and defense -- than they do about the candidate. Kerry has enough time to close this national security gap -- and must close it if he hopes to beat Bush this fall.

Despite one question on a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed Kerry with a one-point lead over Bush on the question of "whom do you trust to do a better job of handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism," data within that same poll and in others show that the security gap stubbornly persists.

MUCH MORE OF THE ARTICLE AT THE SITE.....INCLUDING POLLING FIGURES THAT BACKS WHAT THIS "CRAZY WOMEN" SAID......