Who was the moron Democratic Strategist on CNN just now?

Kerry just gave a great speech and this idjit agrees with the GOP strategist that Kerry's campaign is in trouble. He has to say that on TV? Where do we get these friggin' people from?

Think Alan Colmes

Your run of the mill DU'er

a message on DU or an appearance on CNN.:crazy:

What good are they doing you? But you continue to fund them.

Isn't he a go-getter? Gee, couldn't he have said the Swift Boat stories were falling apart at the seams and were lies? Instead, he just said that they have been trouble for Kerry and the campaign was ill prepared.

I think the reported did better at a counter discussion that this guy.

but the campaign has moved on. BTW, who is the guy?

They panic too early and think everything is going down the drain. And that includes some of our "strategists."

You have to ask yourself why any Democratic strategist would not even address Miles O'Brien's characterization of Kerry's campaign as "somnolent" when John Kerry just finished a speech before the American Legion in Tennessee that was highly critical of George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq War during the Republican National Convention-- a somewhat unprecedent event, CNN had earlier claimed.

Mr. Reid then commenced to criticize the Kerry campaign for their slow response to the "Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth" smear campaign. All high profile Democrats should have been out front criticizing this smear and demanding that the news media not give these lying bastards credence! The major newspaper waited almost two weeks to expose their lies and major GOP/Rove connections.

It makes you wonder if someone in the Democratic party is trying to sabotage the Kerry campaign. Why on earth would the Democratic party allow someone like Morris Reid to trash our candidate? I surely hope the DNC did not send him to represent the party or our candidate.

Also, earlier on CNN, Charlie Rangel, failed to deny that he had criticized John Kerry for wind surfing this week. NO ONE complained that Dubya was down at his ranch in Crawford the entire week of the Democratic convention!

about his windsurfing in nantucket..I was thinking "SO THE FUCK what"
you wanna make fun of someone relaxing...40% of the presidency has been a vacation these last 4 years....gimme a fucking break..these guys are just horrible...

From talkingpointsmemo to democrats "All I can say is, really, really, shut up and calm down."

Amen.

more:
"Again, this is not a Pollyannaish post. The Kerry campaign needs to get control of the debate back from the president. And they need to start hitting much harder. But Democrats themselves need to be a lot tougher and hardier about the cycles campaigns go through. And that applies to self-serving Democratic 'insiders' too."

Really, the back-biting and self-serving crap out of the mouths of some of these ex-Gore people and other "insiders" is getting to be too much.

The rest of the post is good--

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

I wish the "Democrats" complaining about Kerry would spend as much time working as they do whining; make as many calls to undecided voters as they do to the Kerry campaign.

You certainly can't be referring to the limp load of rhetoric to the American Legion where he still supports the invasion of Iraq.

if you think that Kerry can denounce the invasion now then you're missing more than a clue. His only avenue for attack now is the Bushies handling of the Iraq fiasco, and he kicked the shit out of the Bushies over their handling in this speech. I was pleased to see him at least get Iraq back into the discussion because it's a sure loser for Bush.

A couple hundred thousand protestors showed a bit of courage and did so. What's holding our hero back? Why is it "his only avenue"? If he had the courage to renounce his vote for the war he could go after Bush instead of pussyfooting around it.

"I'd do it again" regarding his vote? I'm not happy with his answer but one thing is certain, it took away any possibility of him admitting that the vote was a mistake. I'd rather feel good about him being in the WH Jan. 20, than feel good about him making a statement that would only serve to get him beat and change nothing.

I hope that he wins. I'll vote for him with the aid of an extra-strength nose clamp, but he's got to start telling the truth and quit rationalizing everthing he's said or done.

rhetoric to the American Legion where he still supports the invasion of Iraq.

A blatant lie.


But why? Why not tell the truth?

In the speech he tells the audience that he would have made sure that the troops had more flak jackets, had more "international" support. What was he talking about, and exercise in Central Park?

I don't think you are fooling anyone who is not locked into the same preconceived false notion, however.

It is a lie to say that Kerry EVER, AT ANY POINT IN TIME voiced 'support for the invasion'.


Now, you could lie further, and say that promising I wouldn't put soldier's in harm's way without the equipment and body armor they need means the same thing as I support the invasion -- but all that does is make the dishonesty of your argument more transparent.

And, where is the "preconceived false notion"? He voted for the war. He still supports having our troops there. He has offered no realistic plan to get out.

To borrow a line, "just saying it's so doesn't make it so".

you have identical difficulties with some words with more than three letters. War you get. Authorization Resolution you apparently don't.

Authorization to go to war as a last resort does not equal a vote for war.

War equals war.

There was no vote for war.

If I give you a gun and say "I authorize you defend yourself with it" I am not saying, "Here, go over to your neighbors house and shoot his ass preemptively."

The President..any President..even Bush* who I will never refer to as President should have the authority to defend the US. Most everyone in Congress gave Bush* that authority. If in fact we were forty-five minutes from a mushroom cloud then action should be taken. That was a lie just as everything they told Congress was a lie. Bush* was given authority to deal with a situation that was overblown and Bush* did not deal with it in the prescribed manner. That was not Kerry's fault. War was supposed to be the absolute last resort but Bush* made it the first resort and look where we are.

Take a deep breath and remember CNN is not our friend and they are not going to improve in this election cycle. Turn them off and cheat their advertisers of your attention