via Creators.com - EFL
(h/t Ace of Spades & Allah & Instapundit)
by Susan Estrich - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2004, AND THEREAFTER
My Democratic friends are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it any more.
They are worried, having watched as another August smear campaign, full of lies and half-truths, takes its toll in the polls.
They are frustrated, mostly at the Kerry campaign, for naively believing that just because all the newspapers and news organizations that investigated the charges of the Swift Boat assassins found them to be full of lies and half-truths, they wouldn't take their toll. The word on the street is that Kerry himself was ready to fire back the day the story broke, but that his campaign, believing the charges would blow over if they ignored them, counseled restraint.
But most of all, activists Democrats are angry. As one who lived through an August like this, 16 years ago -- replete with rumors that were lies, which the Bush campaign claimed they had nothing to do with and later admitted they had planted -- I'm angry, too. I've been to this movie. I know how it works. Lies move numbers.
Remember the one about Dukakis suffering from depression after he lost the governorship? (Dukakis not crazy, more at 11.) We lost six points over that lie, planted by George W.'s close friend and colleague in the 1988 campaign, Lee Atwater. Or how about the one about Kitty Dukakis burning a flag at an antiwar demonstration, another out-and-out lie, which the Bush campaign denied having anything to do with, except that it turned out to have come from a United States senator via the Republican National Committee? Lee Atwater later apologized to me for that, too, on his deathbed. Did I mention that Lee's wife is connected to the woman running the Swift Boat campaign?
Never again, we said then.
Not again, Democrats are saying now.
What do you do, Democrats keep asking each other.
The answer is not pretty, but everyone knows what it is.
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Sounds like the little cow & her herd want to Get It On! Lol! Here it comes, AC! After Skeery said, "Bring it On!" you would expect that they would expect people to, well, bring it on! Nope. Musta thought everyone would be all a-skeered and roll over or something. Funny, they keep making the same mistakes, over and over. Must not be a very bright bunch - and they must listen only to each other. Oh well, Dhimmidonks, bring it on, lol! We'll kick your pansy asses in the streets, the polling booth, and any other place you show your f'ugly mugs. See ya, Susie!
| The same people who were challenging the Bush campaign to bring it on are now demanding that Bush call it off. Wussies. |
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