Bush/Cheney doing damage control through emails

[Sydnie]

Just got this forwarded from a friend... well, I thought they were my friend. Anyway, here is what AWOL and Threaten My Own People are sending out tonight. Lets get ready to twist the knife!

September 8, 2004

To: Bush-Cheney '04 Grassroots Team
From: Ed Gillespie, Republican National Committee Chairman
Subject: Brace Yourselves

In response to President Bush's Agenda for America's Future and a critique of his policies and Senate record, Senator Kerry's campaign is implementing a strategy of vicious personal attacks against the President and Vice President.

The campaign is bringing in a bevy of former Clinton henchmen, including CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala. In August alone, Begala called President Bush a "gutless wonder," said he has a "lack of intelligence," and called Vice President Cheney a "dirt bag." Carville said the President is "ignorant big time" and said "George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are a couple of nobodies."

It's not like Bob Shrum needed encouragement to engage in personal attacks. At a Kerry rally Friday morning in Ohio, campaign surrogate John Glenn compared the Republican Convention to a Nazi rally, and Kerry called the President unfit to lead our nation and once again sought to divide the country by who served and how 35 years ago.

Of course, the President was called a "cheap thug," a "killer" and a "liar" at a Kerry-Edwards campaign event in New York, Mrs. Kerry has called the President's policies "unpatriotic" and "immoral" and DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe falsely accused the President of being AWOL.

Democratic strategist Susan Estrich outlined the strategy last Wednesday in a column warning Republicans to "watch out." "I'm not promising pretty," she wrote before going on to call President Bush and Vice President Cheney alcoholics, then ask "is any alcoholic ever really cured?" ("I can see the ad now.") She deems the President's service as a National Guard fighter pilot "draft dodging," and says, "a forthcoming book by Kitty Kelly raises questions about whether the President has practiced what he preaches on the issue of abortion." (Interestingly, the New York Daily News reported back in February that the Kerry campaign intended to spread such a rumor in pro-life chat rooms late in the campaign.)

So the former Dukakis campaign manager has an advance copy of Democrat donor Kitty Kelly's book, which promises to throw unsubstantiated gossip at President Bush in the same way she falsely maligned the late President Reagan as a date rapist who paid for a girlfriend's abortion and wrongly castigated Nancy Reagan as an adulterer who had an affair with Frank Sinatra. A recent story says Kelly's book alleges President Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was President, which is as credible as her story that then Governor and Nancy Reagan smoked marijuana with Jack Benny and George and Gracie Burns.

And tonight on CBS, longtime Democratic operative Ben Barnes-a friend of, major contributor to and Nantucket neighbor of Senator Kerry's and vice chair of the Kerry Campaign--will repudiate his statement under oath that he had no contact with the Bush family concerning the President's National Guard service. (Anyone surprised that Barnes would contradict a statement he made under oath probably doesn't know his long history of political scandal and financial misdealings.)

So brace yourselves. Any mention of John Kerry's votes for higher taxes and against vital weapons programs will be met with the worst kind of personal attacks. Such desperation is unbecoming of American Presidential politics, and Senator Kerry will pay a price for it at the polls as we stay focused on policies to continue growing our economy and winning the War on Terror.

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They are scared, no matter how much they try to puff themselves up. Bush will have to respond and it will have to be more than just spokesmen doing the responses. About damn time too! He should be speaking for himself.

That crap on 60 minutes tonight about "who can remember where they were 30 years ago" is nothing but horse crap! Unless he is admitting that he is becoming senile, why the hell couldn't a young guy remember where he was 30 years ago? Oh yeah, it was the coke and the drinks... I forgot!

[cthrumatrix]

1. america knows...shrub is a damn liar and a worthless leader

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Notice how they mostly repeat the charges without refuting them. . . nt

[sambird90]

5. bush is coward

the question is who will be brave enuff to step up and ask this coward anything tuff.

[mitchtv]

3. I like the part about Milquetoast Suan Estrich

attacking their friends even- pink tutu and all

[Darby]

4. notice how this is more like what THEY THEMSELVES have been doing to JK

[Catfight]

6. Brace Yourself from Mr. Ed? LOL....Hey Ed, why does Bush keep

dodging his family ties to Hitler? We all have family histories, Bush should be proud of his family ties.

How come Bush doesn't attend any funerals of fallen soldiers?

How come Bush has time to work on strategies to lie about John Kerry but he doesn't have time to get our soldiers OUT of this Iraqi mess?

If Bush spent just 1/2 the amount of time on Iraq as he does on hiding his past, we'd be far more safer than we are with Bush so distracted on re-election. Why doesn't he just let America decide if he deserves four more years? In fact, he's never even asked America if we think he deserves it, maybe because he never deserved the first four years.

Why doesn't Bush just say, "Bring it On?" Because he's morally, intellectually, mentally, spiritually, and Presidentially BANKRUPT!
George W. Bush has failed at another endeavor.

[Kierkegaard]

7. I guess it's not fair when we turn the tables on em, huh?

During this election, the snotties have lashed out wildly, painting whole groups of people with derogatory bile, but when the just retribution comes, they whine like a bunch of preschool pussies. Like a fellow DUer mentioned in another thread a while back, 'they always over-reach.' Paybacks are a Be-yatch!

[DrFunkenstein]

8. Kerry To Hit Bush With Spitballs

I love when the Bushies reveal their desperation.

[gumby]

12. HAHAHAHA

LOL

[LiviaOlivia]

9. Do you have a Link?

This has already been perpetrated..OOPs..I mean posted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=772233&mesg_id=772233

[Sydnie]

13. No I don't have a link, It was a forwarded email.

Sorry for posting a dupe. I missed it before I guess.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Bwuhahahahahaha!

Run scared, little doggies, because you know the truth is coming out and you don't know how to contain it!

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Evil fucks.

[gumby]

11. Have you ever seen such whiners? /