This shouldn't surprise anyone.. We've all known this for months. The Democrats are real good at tearing people down but real bad debating the issues.
Gillespie: Democrats Plot 'Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics'
Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 13, 2004
Republican chairman Ed Gillespie warns that Democrats are plotting "the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics."
"This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Senator Kerry's record," he told Nevada Republicans on Thursday night. "I guess I can't blame them for that."
Democrat activists have even stooped so low as to plant false accusations that the president once paid for a former girlfriend's abortion, he noted.
Expect more of the same. "We now know that sometime this fall Kerry campaign operatives intend to go into pro-life chat rooms on the Internet to spread a scurrilous story that President Bush drove a former girlfriend to an abortion clinic, and paid for her abortion, according to the New York Daily News," said Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Pop star Moby, a supporter of Kerry, "expressed hope of dampening Republican turnout in November by spreading anti-Bush gossip on the Internet," the Washington Times reported today.
Suggestions for Smears
Moby told the Daily News: "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion."
Even the singer himself "didn't claim that he believed the abortion story," the New York newspaper reported.
Kerry, stung by the controversy about NewsMax's exposes of his radical past – the Times said our reports of his alliance with "Hanoi" Jane Fonda sparked nationwide outrage among Vietnam veterans – backed away Thursday and today from his attacks on the president's military service.
The Democrats' front-runner this morning told radio broadcaster Don Imus he would not discuss Bush's service in the National Guard. "It's not my record to comment on. I'm not going to pay any attention to it," he insisted.
However, as long as two years ago in an interview with the Boston Globe, Kerry started making unproven allegations of Bush being "AWOL," ABC News' "The Note" column revealed Thursday.
Double Standard
As the Wall Street Journal pointed out this week, Kerry took to the Senate floor more than a decade ago to defend Bill Clinton, who protested against America while he dodged the Vietnam War in England, from attacks by rival candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and insisted that military service should be no consideration in running for office.
Despite the dirty tricks launched by himself and Democrat chairman Terry McAuliffe, a nonveteran, Kerry tried to blame the GOP.
"We've seen evidence. We know exactly where these guys are going to go, and I'm ready for it," Kerry told Imus.
"I've been at this for a while, Don, and I've been through some tough races. I've been pretty well, you know, vetted and examined from one side to the other. And I think that they're in for a surprise. I'm going to fight back. I am a fighter, and I'm ready to fight back."
Asked about a photograph showing him sitting near Fonda at an anti-war rally in 1970, Kerry said he protested the war after he had served in Vietnam and considered his actions a measure of his character.
"Fonda has been criticized for decades for her opposition to the Vietnam War, particularly for traveling to North Vietnam in 1972, at the height of the war, and posing in an anti-aircraft gun," the Associated Press noted today.
Kerry Not Interested in His Past
Although Kerry, McAuliffe and other Democrats lately have been obsessed with Bush's distant past, the new focus on Kerry's radical history, which even some in the media establishment are finally beginning to acknowledge, has the senator avoiding his own past.
"I disagreed, like everyone else in America, with the choice she made at that point in time. I thought it was terrible," Kerry said on Imus' program. "We just move on, Don. We're 30 years beyond that. I think people are interested in the future."
If so, Kerry will now have to run on his record as one of the Senate's most left-wing and anti-defense members.
Gillespie: Democrats Plot 'Dirtiest Campaign in Modern Presidential Politics'
Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 13, 2004
Republican chairman Ed Gillespie warns that Democrats are plotting "the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics."
"This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Senator Kerry's record," he told Nevada Republicans on Thursday night. "I guess I can't blame them for that."
Democrat activists have even stooped so low as to plant false accusations that the president once paid for a former girlfriend's abortion, he noted.
Expect more of the same. "We now know that sometime this fall Kerry campaign operatives intend to go into pro-life chat rooms on the Internet to spread a scurrilous story that President Bush drove a former girlfriend to an abortion clinic, and paid for her abortion, according to the New York Daily News," said Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Pop star Moby, a supporter of Kerry, "expressed hope of dampening Republican turnout in November by spreading anti-Bush gossip on the Internet," the Washington Times reported today.
Suggestions for Smears
Moby told the Daily News: "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion."
Even the singer himself "didn't claim that he believed the abortion story," the New York newspaper reported.
Kerry, stung by the controversy about NewsMax's exposes of his radical past – the Times said our reports of his alliance with "Hanoi" Jane Fonda sparked nationwide outrage among Vietnam veterans – backed away Thursday and today from his attacks on the president's military service.
The Democrats' front-runner this morning told radio broadcaster Don Imus he would not discuss Bush's service in the National Guard. "It's not my record to comment on. I'm not going to pay any attention to it," he insisted.
However, as long as two years ago in an interview with the Boston Globe, Kerry started making unproven allegations of Bush being "AWOL," ABC News' "The Note" column revealed Thursday.
Double Standard
As the Wall Street Journal pointed out this week, Kerry took to the Senate floor more than a decade ago to defend Bill Clinton, who protested against America while he dodged the Vietnam War in England, from attacks by rival candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and insisted that military service should be no consideration in running for office.
Despite the dirty tricks launched by himself and Democrat chairman Terry McAuliffe, a nonveteran, Kerry tried to blame the GOP.
"We've seen evidence. We know exactly where these guys are going to go, and I'm ready for it," Kerry told Imus.
"I've been at this for a while, Don, and I've been through some tough races. I've been pretty well, you know, vetted and examined from one side to the other. And I think that they're in for a surprise. I'm going to fight back. I am a fighter, and I'm ready to fight back."
Asked about a photograph showing him sitting near Fonda at an anti-war rally in 1970, Kerry said he protested the war after he had served in Vietnam and considered his actions a measure of his character.
"Fonda has been criticized for decades for her opposition to the Vietnam War, particularly for traveling to North Vietnam in 1972, at the height of the war, and posing in an anti-aircraft gun," the Associated Press noted today.
Kerry Not Interested in His Past
Although Kerry, McAuliffe and other Democrats lately have been obsessed with Bush's distant past, the new focus on Kerry's radical history, which even some in the media establishment are finally beginning to acknowledge, has the senator avoiding his own past.
"I disagreed, like everyone else in America, with the choice she made at that point in time. I thought it was terrible," Kerry said on Imus' program. "We just move on, Don. We're 30 years beyond that. I think people are interested in the future."
If so, Kerry will now have to run on his record as one of the Senate's most left-wing and anti-defense members.
