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NY Daily News: Kerry staff shakeup due to Swifties

 
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directorblue
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:27 am    Post subject: NY Daily News: Kerry staff shakeup due to Swifties Reply with quote
This is from a couple of days ago, but I didn't find it on the forum...

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Two months before the election, Democrats are already arguing over why John Kerry lost. Campaign staff changes are in the offing in the wake of the damage from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's criticisms of Kerry's war and antiwar records, reports the New York Daily News:

Sen. John Kerry is angry at the way his campaign has botched the attacks from the Swift boat veterans and has ordered a staff shakeup that will put former Clinton aides in top positions.

"The candidate is furious," a longtime senior Kerry adviser told the Daily News. "He knows the campaign was wrong. He wanted to go after the Swift boat attacks, but his top aides said no."

Campaign sources stressed that no one is losing a job at this point, but instead "proven winners" like former Clinton aides Joe Lockhart and Joel Johnson are being brought in to try to regain momentum for Team Kerry.

But while the Daily News has Kerry angry at his staff for exercising too much restraint, a CNN report suggests more restraint is what he needs: "Several campaign officials and advisers say they recognize the need to have an 'adult' traveling with the candidate--as one put it, 'someone who can tell him to shut up, or change something if and when that is necessary' and quickly deal with other strategic issues from the road."

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kerry can't win. If he tackles the Swiftvets head on, he loses. If he ignores them, he loses. It doesn't matter if he addresses them a month ago, today or tomorrow, next week or next month. He's boxed in by the truth.
Here's the message none of his advisors can give him:


THERE'S NO WAY OUT.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nomorelies wrote:
Kerry can't win. If he tackles the Swiftvets head on, he loses. If he ignores them, he loses. It doesn't matter if he addresses them a month ago, today or tomorrow, next week or next month. He's boxed in by the truth.


Checkmate!
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