SEP 16 - 30, 2004

VOL. 2 ISSUE 18

SEPTEMBER 30, 2004 – There is something the American people are going to learn tomorrow - and the Bushies will finally realize as well:  John Kerry is no Al Gore.

There are millions of Americans unhappy with George W. Bush but not ready to throw themselves behind John Kerry because they have heard he is a flip-flopper, he tans too much, all the same nonsense that Gore got pelted with.

They are about to meet John Kerry.

The entire press and even most Democrats seem to have forgotten a simple fact - that John Kerry took the entire month of August off from running ads.  No, Bush did not spring ahead as fictional polls like TIME and Gallup have said, but he did catch up some, as Kerry entirely stood down.  This was a smart tactical maneuver and the only real choice, since if Kerry began spending his $75 million in election funds a month before Bush started spending his, Kerry would have been out of cash when it counted.

So Kerry sat by as the Swift Boat ads and ads run by the Bush campaign itself ran, not to mention all those ads your tax dollars paid for which ran during the Olympics selling Bush's Medicare reform plan.

But, in case you haven't noticed, John Kerry is now more on message and sharper and stronger than he has been at any point thus far.

You may have seen him of ABC TV reciting what sounded like our Jackson Thoreau article detailing how Bush is the real flip-flopper.  In fact, you might have noticed how his campaign has gotten the message that Bush is the real flip-flopper all over the media right before the debates.

The Kerry machine is in high gear.

And now you see Kerry with a barrage of new ads, each bolder and more concise, each pounding away at themes people were worried he had forgotten:  Bush's ever changing/constant lying about why we went to Iraq, Kerry's plan to really gain national security by getting us off of foreign oil.

And so the polls are starting to bounce back the other way.  No surprises here - John has joined back into the campaign after a month off.

What will shock the entire press is what a profound effect the debates have in advancing Kerry's cause.  All America has heard is about a weak, Gore-like man who is a flip-flopaholic.  But what they will see is that this characterization is just one more Bush-brand lie.

Kerry's appearance reeks of Presidential stature.  His game plan is simply to nail Bush hard, hold him accountable for his record right to his face.  The people will see John is no meek little Dukakis-brand liberal, is no vacillating Gore-like poser.  Even more, they will see that John is actually a funny guy.  When he talks, he does so with strength - and he has a great knack for popping in one-liners.

None of this will fit with what the people have been told, and they will lose yet more trust of what Bush tells them due to this.

All the millions of swing voters want to know is that they can trust this Kerry guy as a Presidential level choice.  After Thursday night, they will have no doubt.

What has been the Kerry camp's reaction to the news about FOX News running the pool camera or other issues that have come up regarding the details of the debates?   To paraphrase, 'We don't care if we debate in a swarm of mosquitoes in the middle of hurricane force winds.  Let's just get it on.'

As we said, this is no Dukakis, no Gore, and no whiny, we-need-total-control-because-our-candidate-is-a-weenie Bush camp.  Bush needs a billion and one rules, like not letting the other guy question him, because he is truly an incompetent.  There is a reason he has avoided real press conferences his entire term and even needed Dick Cheney to hold his hand while he testified before the 9/11 Commission.  All he is good for is regurgitating pre-fed one liners with a goofy little smirk that the Bart Simpsons of the nation think is cool.

Last election, it was said all George Bush had to do was "pass the drool test," to show up at the debates and not be a complete bimbo.

He failed, but Gore was such a weenie that he let the Bush camp control the post-debate spin to the point that the loser drooler was dubbed the king.

This time, that game is already out of the bag.  The Kerry camp is gamed for the post-debate spin.  In addition, they have made the fictional polling the Bush camp uses to create the illusion of "inevitability" a media issue.  And they have turned Bush's childish "he's a flip-flopper" arguments against him.

But most importantly, they have fielded a candidate who will make it clear that one person on the stage is Presidential while the other is an incompetent liar.

No punches will be pulled, and Kerry will not be pushed around.  The Republicans think they can get him by making him sweat?  Kerry will flick sweatballs at Karl Rove's head.  He truly doesn't care.  A little sweat didn't throw him off his game in the jungles of Vietnam, and it won't as he defends his nation on a stage in Miami.

Tonight the sheets will get pulled on the biggest truth that has been kept quiet by the right-wing domination of the media:  that George Bush is nothing but a ballless, cowardly little liar.  He was a bimbo in last year debates but got away with it.  Not this time.

George Bush has spent the entire last four years shielded by his FOX/Limbaugh media filter and protected from actual questions by Daddy Rove and Darth Cheney.  Tonight, he will be up there exposed - and a bad ass war hero will leave him whining all the way to the Rush Limbaugh show for cover.

The Bush camp has made a huge mistake in painting Kerry to be a weak flip-flopper.  It is the equivalent of the other side painting Bush to be an idiot.  If all Bush had to do was pass the "drool test," all Kerry has to do is pass the, "I'm not a pushover," test.  America is expecting a lot of George Bush and very little of Kerry.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the beginning of the reclaiming of your nation.