Democrats Are Giving Bush A Free Ride

[Midwest_Doc]

The republican mantra has become - "John Kerry flip-flops on the issues"

We Democrats need to remind voters that Bush's position on many issues as president, is significantly different than the views he promoted as governor of Texas.

Examining issues from civil rights to healthcare, it is clear that Bush is the flip-flop candidate - not Kerry.

[truthspeaker]

1. not to mention Bush is a liar

Most Democrats have been giving him a free ride since November
of 2000. Even the good ones (Waxman, Kennedy, Byrd, McAuliffe
[lately], a few others) have refrained from calling him an out
and out liar.

[H2O Man]

2. I agree....

another great flip-flop would be saying Rice can NOT testify under oath before the 9-11 Commission due to PRINCIPLE.... and two weeks later reversing your stand 180 degrees, for entirely political reasons. If you have three friends, you can coordinate a letter to the editor of your local newspaper (one per week) to address this issue. One flip-flop per week.

[ixion]

3. "I would not use our military for what's called 'Nation Building'".

That and many, many others.

Bush is a liar, and a master of say one thing and do another.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of examples.

And for some reason, none of these inconsistencies seem to make it any further than 'The Daily Show'.

sigh.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Perhaps they are just letting the irony build

the backlash is coming, don't worry. Kerry is looking good and rising in the polls by appearing magnaminous in comparison.

[readmylips]

5. Hammer on bush, Lier, Lier, Lier......

have ad showing the little guy, right out lying and his Pinocchio nose growing. They also need a visual graph on the deficit. People understand visuals or they only have time for a quick sound bite visual.

[Chitown_Dem]

6. This is recycled campaign rhetoric

from either '92 or '96. The GOP kept saying Clinton was a "waffler."

New word, same tired strategy. Many of the Bush ads are being debunked on Kerry's campaign web site.

Edited to add link: http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/

[oasis]

7. "Show us your cards, let's see the whip count" --GWB . The resolution

was withdrawn from the 15 member UN Security Council before the vote was taken.

Next thing you know, "Shock and Awe" and then the invasion of Iraq.

Not only was that a flip-flop, Bush went back on his word.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

8. Where do i start?

Oh...here it is for starters www.flipfloppingbush.com

[Nashyra]

9. What about a commercial

showing a befuddled picture of the *, there are plenty to choose from challenging * to testify without Cheney if he is such a "leader". I mean come on all these commercials with him strutting and this leadershit bs. "George Bush if you are such a leader why are you afraid to testify without Dick Cheney by your side"? they could go on to say "Be a leader, testify on your own, under oath and in public. That is courage under fire Mr. President, do you have it"? What do you think? Where do I send an idea, couldn't find an e-mail link on Moveon.org

[sangh0]

10. That's just BS

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=MineTv63hOZymX%2B9wGB1vw%3D%3D

Strike Out
by Michael Crowley

On a recent morning in early March, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened to protect the American flag from burning, stomping, shredding, and the notion that, as Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch put it, "urinating or defecating on the flag is some form of speech." The Committee's Republican majority had carefully assembled the audience for this hearing. The room was filled with dozens of aging veterans, wearing medals and dark red VFW hats. Also in attendance was a hero of perhaps even greater red-state status: nascar driver John Andretti, who would testify that "those who desecrate the flag have total disregard for our military."

In other words, the hearing had all the trappings of a perfect, election-year GOP stunt. But then things got a little more complicated. Committee Democrats, such as Richard Durbin of Illinois, noted that Republicans had voted down a Senate amendment increasing veterans' health spending the previous night. "Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised," Durbin said, causing brows to furrow under those VFW caps. Committee Republicans were furious. GOP Senator Larry Craig of Idaho nearly sputtered with rage as he defensively rambled about shortened lines at a veterans' clinic in Boise and vowed that veterans' spending would eventually be "plussed-up" in the budget process. The cultural issue had become an economic one; Democrats had found a soft spot.

It was a potentially telling moment. For weeks, cocky Senate Republicans have been bragging about their plans to use cultural wedge issues like flag-burning to torment John Kerry. Earlier this month, The Washington Post detailed GOP plans for "a series of debates and votes that will highlight the candidates' positions on divisive issues." In Roll Call recently, a GOP aide vowed that, "hen John Kerry comes back, we will make the stage to define him." Another warned that the Senate will be filled with legislative "bear traps" for the unsuspecting Massachusetts Democrat.

Nice try. For all their tough talk, Senate Republicans can barely keep themselves organized, much less bring down the Democratic nominee. Indeed, lately it's Senate Democrats who have been on the offensive, successfully pressing issues central to Kerry's campaign. Republicans may have cultural issues, but Democrats have economic ones with more resonance among voters. And, if the going ever does get tough, Kerry can simply skip town. Rather than being a quagmire for Kerry, the Senate could serve as a useful campaign tool...."