| Let's Review Kerry's Attacks on Bush |
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March 4, 2004 |
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Listen to Rush...
(...recount Kerry's attacks on Bush, and Coehlo's warning)
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RUSH: Bush doesn't ever "attack" anybody. Is it safe to say? Bush is still being governed by the New Tone. Bush doesn't attack anybody. Now, the Kerry people define an attack as criticism or making a joke about the fact he's on both sides of an issue, and they're doing this because they're trying to characterize what Bush is doing as mean and negative and attacking. It's common to see they're overreacting and in trying not to make what they think were mistakes in previous campaigns, they are overreacting. |
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 Dukakis didn't respond enough in 1988. They don't think they responded at all. They let Bush walk all over him. They let the Republicans walk all over them in 2002, and they're not going to let that happen again. So Kerry is out there, the Democrats are out there. All Bush has to do is inhale, and it's "an attack." So let's look at some of the things that John Kerry has been saying. A year ago, John Kerry stated, "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States."
Now, that's the kind of rhetoric that is actually comparing the legitimacy of the Bush administration with the Hussein regime. Three weeks ago, Kerry said of Bush's leadership, "The arrogance and the sheer sort of almost stupidity of it is stunning." Over the weekend Mr. Kerry hinted "Bush should go back to college so he could straighten out his fuzzy math." Last year he joked "General Boykin has confused the heck out of the White House, on all this talk about the Almighty. When he talks about the Almighty, the president thinks he's talking about Cheney."
And then at Kerry rallies, have you heard these chants at Kerry rallies, "Send Bush to Mars! Send Bush to Mars!" Have you heard those? Some of you might think that's funny, but the fact is if anybody is attacking -- and by the way, I'm not whining about the attacking. I'm not complaining. I'm just informing you. If there's anybody on the attack and saying mean things, it's Kerry. Don't forget his Rolling Stone interview. You remember how he tried to explain his vote for the Iraq war? He said [paraphrasing], "Well of course, we all voted for it. I just didn't have any idea that Bush would F it up this bad." That's why he has the nickname "John F-ing Kerry" to go along with "Jean-Pierre Kerry." |
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To Vogue magazine, Kerry suggested that Bush was and is a fun-loving guy who doesn't know much. "Yeah, he was two years behind me at Yale and I knew him, and he's still the same guy," although it's been consequently revealed since the two actually did not know one another at the time. On a campaign stop, the senator got very personal. He asked, "My God, what's the matter with the values of these people? This is the most screwed up, misplaced values." He's also cracked numerous times "We all saw George Bush play dress-up on an aircraft carrier." He added, "I left some blood on a battlefield that President Bush never left anywhere."
 Two weeks ago in a shot at the Guard, shot at the president and his henchmen, Mr. Kerry denigrated Bush's service in the National Guard when he said, "I don't know what it is with all these Republicans who didn't serve in Vietnam are fighting a war against those of us who did." And I'm sure you may have heard even worse examples than this, but this is rooted in hate. There is a genuine hatred for Bush, and I'll tell you where he doesn't hate. Bush doesn't hate the Democrats. He doesn't hate Kerry. He doesn't hate these people. Bush isn't even that self-conscious, which explains a lot about him. He doesn't walk around every day thinking about himself first.
He is not the first thought in his mind, as he encounters every situation. Kerry is. Kerry is the only thing in his mind: how he looks, how he sounds, how it's going to be interpreted. Everything is phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller. So I'm just saying, when these people start running around whining about all these attacks, keep in mind who's really doing it. And I tell you what, it does not get them anywhere. It just doesn't. You might think it does but it's not. It's going to shore up his base; I'm not denying that. There's clearly an audience for it. Here quick sound bites, one and two. Let me go back to this program yesterday. I want to play for you just to review for you what I said in response to a liberal phone caller on this show yesterday. |
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RUSH ARCHIVE: "You've got to have more than rage and anger occasion -- sorry, 'disappointment.' You have to have more than a desire to trump the other guys in order to win the presidency. You've got a to have somebody who has a message, that is of substance, with ideas, somebody who has a vision, somebody who's going to stick to it, and this is not present in Kerry."
RUSH: What do I say "show prep for the rest of the media"? Advice given to the Democrats. Last night, Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Channel; Tony Coelho, one of the big-machine Democrats from way back when, had this to say about Kerry.
 COELHO: "I think the most important thing for Kerry right now is to figure out who's best for us, but also for Kerry to understand that the anger race is over and we're now into running for president against Bush. Bush's ads are elevating the debate. Kerry has to understand he has to come at this making people feel good about him and that he could be president. The anger doesn't work now."
RUSH: The thing that worries me about this is that Coelho is one of these guys that's always been wrong. Coelho hasn't been right since '94 when he predicted Newt would never be speaker. But he's still right, and he's one of the few Democrats. "Bush is elevating himself with these ads." Kerry has got to make people feel good about him. I'm telling you, folks, I don't think he knows how. I don't think anybody does feel good about Kerry. I don't think anybody likes him.
You know, Kerry is one of these guys, and this is something to worry about. Susan Estrich said this on somewhere last night, "He's lucky. He's lucky in politics. He's lucky in life," and if you look, he is. He's one of these guys no matter what happens -- and that's why he's not liked. So he's either going to get lucky and his luck is going to stay on a roll or he's going to get a comeuppance. We vote for the comeuppance, don't we?
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