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A BUSH WIN WOULD MEAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE?

Howard Kurtz has an interesting roundup of how lefties will react if Bush is reelected. A couple of the best quotes:

Here are what some liberals had to say in Glastris's magazine [the Washington Monthly] about a second Bush term:
CNN's Paul Begala: "He and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon."

Columbia's Todd Gitlin: "I would not be surprised to see outbursts of political violence the likes of which we haven't seen since the Weather Underground of the 1970s."

Harvard's Elaine Kamarck, a former Clinton aide: "The beginning of the end of American greatness."


I actually sometimes agree with Gitlin, wondering what happens to all that anger among the Deaniacs if their man — or their substitute for their man — doesn't win.

RONALD REAGAN'S WORDS, AGAINST KERRY

Americans for Peace Through Strength, a new 527 group, as unveiled a devastating ad that will warm the heart of every Reagan fan.

It uses comments from Reagan's debate with Walter Mondale in 1984, and observes the criticisms on national defense against Walter Mondale twenty years ago are every bit as accurate against John Kerry today.

I know some guys love the Swift Boat Vet ads, some people will love the Ashley ad. But to me, this is my absolute favorite ad of the year.

Hunting for info on the size of the buy and where it will be running.

I'm sure Ron Reagan, the son, will have something to say about this. Check out MSNBC (if you can stand it).

ANOTHER ACCOUNT FROM A GUY WHO'S BEEN IN IRAQ

From a Kerry Spot reader who I have confirmed returned from active duty in Iraq this Spring:

Last year in Iraq I helped slap on bricks of plastic explosives to detonate captured Iraqi weapons and ammunition. News reports at the time indicated that there were over 600 large arms caches found (some covering acres of ground) and more were being unearthed every day. Our forces and our coalition allies* were being kept quite busy securing, cataloging, and disposing of what we'd found.
I know I saw enough RPGs, land mines, and mortar rounds to give every Al-Qaida operative their own personal tractor-trailer load.

What in blazes does John France Kerry think is going to happen to all those RGPs when we pull out three months into his administration? Whose hands does he think they're going to fall into? Does he honestly believe that one of those RGPs won't show up just outside the fence of Logan Airport?

(* Tiny Latvia's small contingent of ex-Soviet Army veterans were of enormous help in identifying and handling captured Soviet-made weapons.)


Note that so far, the guys in uniform aren't impressed with this line of criticism by Kerry.

Also, the Bush campaign has released a brief statement from spokesman Steve Schmidt:

“John Kerry has no vision for fighting and winning the War on Terror, so he is basing his attacks on the headlines he wakes up to each day. If John Kerry wants to spend the next 8 days trying to explain his positions again, we welcome that debate. John Kerry can’t lead the nation to victory in a war he doesn’t believe in.”

Votes from the millitary overseas will go a long way toward helping the President. While the Democrats claim they want "every" vote counted (some two, three, or 35 times), they are already planning to protest millitary absentee ballots.

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