Suddenly, Bush no longer looks unbeatable...

[luvmetender]

This is my opinion, and here is the article to back it up....

"Republicans are starting to get very nervous about 2004, said Robert D. Novak in the Chicago Sun-Times. John Kerry's sudden ascent as the Democratic front-runner comes as a big disappointment to the GOP's strategists, who were salivating over the prospect of running against the gaffe-prone liberal Howard Dean. Publicly, Republicans are scorning Kerry as just another Massachusetts liberal, in the mold of Ted Kennedy and Michael Dukakis. But privately, they worry that it'll be a lot harder to pin the "liberal extremist" label on Kerry than on Dean. Kerry, as a Vietnam War hero, presents Republicans with a serious problem -- especially since, as an GOP operative put it, Bush sat out the war, "drinking beer in Alabama." But what really has Republicans worried is President Bush's faltering credibility. He's clearly suffered polical embarrassment over Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. That revelation has put Bush on the defensive, and his recent State of the Union address was without passion or substance. Now comes the White House's admission that the new Medicare prescription program will cost $134 billion more than Bush predicted just a few weeks ago. The Republican "high command" is now wringing its hands, knowing that a "lack of credibility cost both Jimmy Carter and Bush's father a second term. If Bush doesn't rally, the same could happen to him."

[Taxman]

We'll see luv... With twenty years worth of voting records and his actions after returning home from Vietnam there's plenty to discuss with Kerry.

[Rockabillie]

Well, his Dad only served 1 term.
Does the acorn fall far from the tree?

[Taxman]

Between interns, lying about his fellow veterans, taking every opportunity to weaken the US military and intelligence apparatus there’s plenty to blast Kerry on. This will probably still be a tight election, but Kerry's got way too much baggage IMO.

[pandybat]

Kerry has too much baggage!? Bush is loaded down with Samsonite! LOL

[bwsmom]

Originally Posted by Taxman

Between interns, lying about his fellow veterans, taking every opportunity to weaken the US military and intelligence apparatus there’s plenty to blast Kerry on. This will probably still be a tight election, but Kerry's got way too much baggage IMO.

Kerry's got more baggage than the lost & found at LaGuardia...

[CagedTroll]

Originally Posted by Taxman

Between interns, lying about his fellow veterans, taking every opportunity to weaken the US military and intelligence apparatus there’s plenty to blast Kerry on. This will probably still be a tight election, but Kerry's got way too much baggage IMO.

Interesting. The "intern" story is still floating based on what evidence??? Drudge is trying to get out of it, from what I've seen. In the early days of the Bush campaign for office there was a similar story about adultery on his part. "Liberal media" didn't care after about fifteen minutes of it.

[monkee]

I don't know, I think it's a bit early to be trying to predict the outcome of the election. Alot can happen between now and November. I keep hearing about polls saying that at this point, Bush would lose to either one of the two Dem candidates, but then again, wasn't Howard Dean the the major front-runner in all the polls right up until he got his butt kicked? Maybe we should wait and see.

[bwsmom]

Originally Posted by CagedTroll

Interesting. The "intern" story is still floating based on what evidence??? Drudge is trying to get out of it, from what I've seen. In the early days of the Bush campaign for office there was a similar story about adultery on his part. "Liberal media" didn't care after about fifteen minutes of it.

Oh, but I think the following comment is much more telling about the "liberal media" and its views toward this sort of behavior:

The Washington Post London correspondent Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Post's Sunday magazine, defended his newspaper's editorial judgment.

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.

"All we have at the moment is that the woman's parents, who are republicans, don't like Senator Kerry.

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it. Lying to Don Imus [the radio host to whom Kerry gave his initial denial] is not a federal offence."

The above was run by many news sources (quite a few of which only ran the first two paragraphs of Mr. Frankel's statement), so I'm not going to bother linking.

[pandybat]

Yet Drudge is a liberal and ran the story as fact. Go figure!

When you say "liberal media", who are you referring to? Just asking...

[bwsmom]

Originally Posted by pandybat

Yet Drudge is a liberal and ran the story as fact. Go figure!

When you say "liberal media", who are you referring to? Just asking...

Drudge is a self-proclaimed "libertarian".... BIG difference between that and a "liberal"!

My version of "liberal media" is all the mainstream media outlets who made Clinton their darling and have taken every opportunity to villify GWB and conservatives in general. Dan Rather would be King in Liberal Media Land, for instance. It's often said that Fox News is the main "right-wing" media source, but the truth of the matter is that Fox is just so much closer to center than the other media outlets, they end up looking like they're camped on the right. They do their fair share of negative reporting on Republicans, conservatives and GWB, but it's a much more "equal opportunity negative reporting" than the likes of CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. As for Drudge, he admits to having "cultivated" a right-wing following on his website, but he's not shy about running articles that aren't "kind" to Republicans/conservatives too!

[Jwelch111]

Here is a story from the Howard Dean campaign. I don't have a link to the story, but, FWIW, here it is:

After Howard Dean announced that he was no longer pursuing the presidency, a reporter (allegedly) gave him a T-shirt with this saying:

"We Have the Power"

Dean's message was: "You Have the Power". IF a member of the media claimed that the Power rests within their ranks, where is the liberal slant? Would they (the media) slay their own?

And, yes, this IS heresay, and only one (alleged) case.

And Dean was more a moderate (certainly, fiscally!) than a liberal. (MY OPINION).

[blueaguave]

Karl Rove screwed up. They shouldn't have said how glad they were that Dean was going to be the nominee. The Democrats got the message, and got rid of him.