THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 51, March 11, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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JOHN KERRY'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN STRATEGY:
THOUGH UNSCRUPULOUS & DESPICABLE,
IT WORKED FOR THE CLINTONS
By Christopher G. Adamo
As the presidential primary season concludes, and general election politics
becomes predominant, the preferred strategy of Democratic Senator John Kerry is
rapidly becoming as transparent as it is despicable. Kerry and his minions
plan to base their assault against the President on a foundation of the
outrageous, accompanied by feigned shock and dismay at even the mildest
attempts by the President to defend himself. Clinton hatchet man James
Carville perfected this technique in 1992, and used it again with great
success in 1996.
Thus, any serious discussion of the issues, by which voters could make an
intelligent and informed decision, is strictly “off limits.” Kerry simply
cannot tolerate it. Nevertheless, the glaring baggage he brings to the
campaign requires a particularly high level of shrillness to deflect, which
poses a risk. With such dramatic increases in the availability of
alternative information sources as has occurred in recent years, via the
Internet and talk radio, mere stonewalling by the collaborating “mainstream
media” cannot successfully hide Kerry’s distortions and unfounded
accusations against the President, nor his regular “flip-flops” on major
issues.
Consider the prominent issue of the past few days, and the manner in which
the Kerry cabal has responded to it. In the wake of President Bush’s newly
aired campaign ads that focused on the attacks of September 11, Kerry’s
minions have outdone themselves in an effort to convince America of the
wrongful nature of the ads, contending that the President should in no way
make reference to the defining episode of the present era. Instead, for the
sake of the hallowed name of politics, he should encourage the American
people to completely disregard that horrendous event when considering what
sort of leadership is needed to safely guide them through the perilous times
ushered in by it.
Thus, America should consider Bush’s record in the Texas Air National Guard
during the 1970’s, though it is wrong, we are told, for Bush to direct any
attention towards Kerry’s actions during that same period, being that it was
so long ago and far away. For his own part, Kerry is willing to proclaim
what he ostensibly would have done in the aftermath of 9-11, had he been in
charge. Does anyone detect an element of hypocrisy, verging on the absurd,
lurking here?
So obsessive has the Kerry camp been in its efforts to entirely remove 9-11
from the debate that, in the past few days, surviving family members of WTC
victims were paraded in front of the cameras to recite what could only have
been scripted talking points for the network anchors. These people have
since been uncovered as members of a front organization, funded by Kerry’s
benefactor and wife, Teresa Heinz.
Their grief, real though it may have been, does not uniquely qualify them as
experts on international affairs. Furthermore, the oft-repeated reference to
the attacks as occurring “On Bush’s watch” reeks of partisan politics, and
completely ignores the total inaction against growing terrorist activity
during the eight years of the previous administration.
Yet, it is they who cry most loudly that the President, by citing the most
significant challenge to confront his administration, and thus referencing
his indisputable success in dealing with it, somehow affronted them. If it
was unforgivably wrong for the Bush campaign to remind us of that awful day,
what does it say about Kerry and his camp that they would employ scripted
talking points, dutifully delivered by relatives of the deceased on
nationwide TV?
Similarly, the tremendous heroism and sacrifice of those New York
firefighters, who gave everything on September 11, has been thoroughly
demeaned by individuals who, while ostensibly speaking on behalf of the
firefighting profession, attacked the President but voiced support for
Kerry. Apparently, funding and perks are of greater significance than
the threat of future terrorist acts.
America’s foreign enemies have been driven back and their capabilities
reduced, though not extinguished. They will reemerge, if given the
opportunity to do so. If Americans are once again willing to allow reality
to be so completely overshadowed by the blatant tactics of unscrupulous
demagogues, they will usher in nothing less than a continuation of the fraud
and resulting national decline of the 1990’s. It was during that period that
America’s diplomatic prowess was undermined and ultimately left in shambles,
while its military was methodically decimated, thus making it vulnerable to
attack. Can the nation realistically expect anything to be different this
time around?
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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American Government & the U.S. Presidency
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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