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The Kerry campaign starts to "talk" about internal fighting
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Posted by: Mr. P

Man, it's ugly. All of this is going to start to spill onto the airwaves soon, and we'll see just exactly how lucky we really were, that Kerry didn't seize control of the White House. The mere thought of it scares me.

There's little to do about governing ability, as he's never governed anything. It about power grab. First of all, he's a Democrat, so he gets an automatic vote from half the people in the country, the automatic black vote, the vote from people pissed at Bush, but "what about leadership"? Sure, there were plenty of people out there who wanted revenge from 4-years ago, but the Democrats are going to have to get SOMEONE who can "manage" a campaign, and "govern" their own people before they're going to get the chance to manage the free world. GWB was able to engage a war and defeat Kerry at the same time, by three and a half million popular votes.

Here is an article this morning about the internal fighting that helped Kerry's organization destruct from within, which just gives me more reason to be thankful that we don't have John Kerry (and his idiot pushy bitch) and John Edwards (who is a worthless ambulance chaser) in the White House.

thank GOD for small favors!

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041104/nyth186_1.html

Mr. P

Posted by: Mr. P

11/4/04
Election with Hunter
By Troy Hooper/Aspen Daily News Staff Writer

WOODY CREEK — It was Bailey's Irish Cream and Royal Salute Scotch Whiskey at the Thompson household on Election Night. A bottle of Cristal intended for a John Kerry victory remained uncorked, chilling on ice in a backroom.

A hungry smell of anticipation hung in the kitchen at Owl Farm, which morphed into a makeshift Democratic headquarters as Hunter S. Thompson hunkered down with a small group of friends and manned what seemed like a global switchboard as calls came pouring in from some of the biggest names in modern American lore.

Even a few pollsters dialed up The Good Doctor in search of the most up-to-minute score. Whether they were calling to ascertain Thompson's classified political knowledge or gauge his gambler's instinct was unclear. But without question, his phone was chiming more often than the Liberty Bell.

"I don't mean to pop the bad news on you Bubba but John Kerry is getting beat just like George McGovern did in 1972 — or worse," Thompson proclaimed to his nephew well before the news networks gave any hint that Bush Nation was marching toward a second term. "The tide turned so quickly it was difficult to breathe."

Actor Sean Penn, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, Kerry press secretary David Wade and others checked in with Thompson who sat on a chair inhaling cigarettes and stiff drinks in between bites of breakfast, which wasn't served to the late-awakening writer until after the sun went down.

Asked for a candid assessment of the election, Thompson put it plainly to Penn.

"I've got the worst possible news. Colorado has gone to hell like all the other states," Thompson said into the speakerphone. "They must have all voted the same way they prayed."

The way Thompson's neighbors voted was far removed from the national outcome. Bush mustered just 2,750 of Pitkin County's electorate while Kerry received 6,275.

Nationally, Bush garnered the highest total number of votes ever, winning 51 percent of the record voter turnout, which preliminary estimates have put at roughly 117 million. He is the first president to win a majority of the vote since 1988 when his father beat another Democrat from Massachusetts: Michael Dukakis.

"The news is getting logarithmically more horrible," Thompson told another caller as the night wore on. "They're all committing suicide up in Boston."

Thompson has always had a keen eye for politics. His best-known work on the subject is "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" — an up-close study of South Dakota Senator George McGovern's effort to unseat President Richard Nixon.

Over the weekend, McGovern and Thompson discussed the election: The two old friends suggested Bush might be more dangerous than Nixon. Kerry would make a fine president, they both agreed, as they noted the similarities between the two eras.

This year's Democratic presidential candidate must have seen some similarities between now and then, too.

When Kerry visited Aspen last June for a fund-raiser, he brought three hardcover copies of "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" to have them autographed. Thompson obliged and struck a friendship with Kerry, serving as his unofficial Aspen tour guide, meeting the candidate on a rain-soaked tarmac at Sardy Field and riding in a Secret Service procession up Red Mountain, showing Kerry the sights and conferring with him on national affairs.

Now, five months later, Kerry has met the same fate as McGovern.

"I feel like somebody's died," Thompson lamented as the sun was preparing to rise early Wednesday morning. "I'm just not sure who it was."

He deemed the election "another failure of the youth vote."

"Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again."

Posted by: 3SuperSports

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	He deemed the election "another failure of the youth vote."

I just love how the most liberal democrats think that all "the youth" will be liberals. They advertise like Pepsi. "The choice of a new generation" That's just ignorant.

Posted by: MikeT

Well look what they're teaching kids in school these days. Its a wonder they aren't all liberals.

I was a liberal in HS, cause thats all that I was taught. I went to college and learnd all the crap I was fed in HS was BS. I became a moderate. After I quit college I learned that all that crap I was taught there was BS. The real world dosen't work like that. Now I'm much more conservative.

Ya there are a few issues I don't agree w/ most conservatives on. But I really can't stand those damn liberal socialists.

Posted by: Mr. P

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Originally Posted by MikeT


	I was a liberal in HS

Hey Mike, what is this, an episode of "TRUE CONFESSIONS" or whaaaat?

Mr. P

Posted by: Grape Ape

What I wonder isn't why he blamed "the youth vote" for "failing" and betraying the Democrats AGAIN... As if to tell the world that the Democrat perty is OWED by the youth of America.

Problem is, as it's been since the term "liberal democrat" came into existence, the Democrat Party, along with the DNC has come to EXPECT things they never earned. That leaves them scratching their heads and complaining that THEY failed again. And in true liberal fashion, it's NOT their fault... It's someone elses fault. In a nutshell, that's reason enough to tell those morons where to go, and it ain't America!

While it's true our young voters didn't turn out as the Dems swore they would... The Dems are usually wrong, so where's the surprise? Less than 1 in 10 18-24yr old voters cast a ballot, just like last election. But to BLAME them is only to be a liberal moron. You can't expect, since someone registered to vote, they will exercise that right. You can HOPE the do, but to blame them for your party's lack of effort to get the right message out, so those youngsters would vote, is asinine. Oh well, let 'em whine... The right man won.

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