SwiftVets.com

[Frogg]

I hope this article isn't true ! If it is true....I hope the Swiftees are ruff and ready


The Slime Offensive

The Washington Prowler
By The Prowler
Published 8/26/2004 12:09:14 AM


DIRTBAGGERS

It probably isn't coincidental that on the day that former Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart officially joined the Kerry campaign, the behind-the-scenes pushback to bail out Kerry's presidential campaign began in earnest.

According to a Kerry campaign source in Washington, the campaign itself, or perhaps entities outside of the campaign to allow for plausible deniability, has pulled together more than 1,000 documents related to members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, many of them compiled within the past three weeks by professional opposition researchers assigned to dig up dirt.

"We have the documents," says the campaign source. "It's not clear that the campaign did this or that it was done by an outside group and given to us. Either way, we have the stuff and we're going to use it."

In some cases, the material is said to include psychological evaluations from the post-Vietnam era, employment records, and criminal and civil court records (including divorce and child support data).

According to a Democratic National Committee staffer, who has not seen the material, the Kerry campaign has every right to use that information against the Swift boaters. "These guys say they know war and they know battle, well this is war. They can't expect the Kerry people to just sit back on their heels. There will be pushback and it will be ugly."

The DNC staffer denied that the documents were the result of the party's opposition research efforts. But the staffer added that the Kerry campaign and the DNC were working on putting together another round of attacks on Bush and his National Guard service, which might be dropped on the media next week to embarrass the president during his re-nomination in New York.

Meanwhile, the Kerry campaign continued to look for documentary material that would aid their candidate in some way, but were striking out. "A lot of were pushing for a full release of Kerry's diaries from the period. But we're hearing that those diaries aren't helpful at all, and may actually make matters worse," says a Democratic political strategist not aligned with Kerry.

One glaring example of that was published by the Washington Times Wednesday morning.

"The only way they are going to get out of this is through a war of attrition and with the help of the media," says the Democratic strategist. "You watch CNN and Chris Matthews and read the New York Times and you can just tell from the faces of the anchors and the words on the page that they are disgusted by this story and want to wash their hands of it. Kerry has to figure out a way to make it easy for them to do it, and that's through dirty politics of their own."

rest of article can be read here

[Polaris]

Frogg,

Thanks for the info, but I am quite sure that the swifties have already thought this might happen. The first time such a story breaks, I would advise that they reveal everything at once. That takes the weapon away.

However, I will leave it to the swifties to handle this with our support....besides, it only shows how low Kerry can go (which seems pretty low).
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Truth is Beauty

[CandiM]

Frankly, for just about all but the ABB crowd, doing so will just be another indication to people of what small, nasty, vindictive, heavy-handed, classless oafs these people are--

Not to mention the fact that it will continue to demonstrate, as they have since the airing of the first SBVT ad, that they will do ANYTHING to avoid actually addressing the charges that have been made--

I will be terribly upset to see it happen if it does, but, sadly, that is the class of people that this group is dealing with--C
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[cjg]

Sometimes I wonder if they really do have all this information or is it
just a threat to see if the Swiftvets will stop their ads. We have been
hearing about this Brown Book with all the nasties in it for some time and
they have not put out any slime yet.

I hope it is, but in three weeks work it would be hard to investigate
250 people. I suppose they have the resources though.

I think I would want to be prepared for what Kerry is going to say
on Meet the Press and 60 minutes because he may be going to tell
his sad, sad story about being picked on and how sorry he is, blah,
blah. Maybe something to send out immediately to let him know
whatever he says, Swiftvets are not going to stop. They have
barely begun, and when the other 550,000 books hit the market,
there will be some talking goin' on out there!

Kerry is a dirty fighter, always has been so this should not be a
surprise to anyone. I just wonder at the truthfullness of this
brown book stuff as it has to be at least two weeks ago they
apparently sent them out to the liberal press. Jerks!

Now I can go to bed and sleep, I read the article on this post,
and kept thinking I should send it, then could not sleep until
I did, then there it was already done. Take care
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Swiftvets rock!

[BC]

BAHHH AHHHHH

So what this tells me that with allllllllll their man power and ALLLLLL their money they can't find anything good about kerry


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[adamyoshida]

The little bit in the New York Daily News yesterday shows where they're going with all of this. Whatever they can use to smear.

Frankly, I think it'll reek of desperation.
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