New York Times: "In a New Offensive, Bush Rearms His Stump Arsenal"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/politics/campaign/11letter.html?ex=1255233600&en=bd46c3588b76acf9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

President Bush inaugurated a new lean, mean stump speech last week that aimed the AK-47's directly at his Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry. On Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mr. Bush charged that Mr. Kerry's policies would make the world a more dangerous place, and that he had a "20-year history of weakness" in the United States Senate and a "strategy of defeat" in Iraq.

Gone was one of Mr. Bush's favorite phrases, used just four days earlier in Ohio, about the "transformational power of liberty." Gone was his familiar line that freedom is "the Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world." Gone, too, was his sunny prediction that someday an American president would sit down with "a duly elected leader of Iraq" to talk about how to keep the peace in the "greater Middle East."

Campaign officials insisted that Mr. Bush was not ditching his well-worked lines - all of them in the hopeful language of his chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson - to keep pace with reality on the ground in Iraq. Instead, the officials said that with all the new attack lines against Mr. Kerry, something had to go.

"We're certainly in a tougher part of the campaign," said Nicolle Devenish, the Bush campaign's communications director. "John Kerry called us a liar on the stump. We're going to go on the offensive every chance we get."

[MSgt213]

1. Stop the lying and it might help even more Nicolle instead you have hone

the lying down to even more simple statements for Bush and the true believers of bullshit.

[MatrixEscape]

2. An Undoing?

Offensive is a good word to use, for all its meanings.

This new tactic looks both desperate and crude. If Americans are concerned about issues and the sad state of the Country, then Bush's attacks will only serve to clinch it for Kerry. The pretend cowboy is going to create his own undoing with the "tough guy" act.

Throwing a hissy at your opponent is like throwing in the towel and we see Boosh going into a tailspin now. Kerry is not the only one noting that Boosh and his thugs are, in fact, liars. Or, haven't they noticed?

I plan to note this in my circle of influence. The anger spewing from the pResident is, as most people know, a sign that he is losing.

"Bush is on the stump trying to prove he has wood!"

[izzie]

3. What will Bush do when he sees the polls this morning?

He is sure an odd little man. I can see him saying anything. I have read that he just can not stand to not win.

[Inland]

4. But there aren't a million snotty stories on Bush changing his image

like there would be if Kerry or Gore or anyone else retooled his stump speech. No, Bush never does anything just for focus groups.

[Supersedeas]

7. In a show of desperation, Kerry alters stump speech.

[Inland]

8. Exactly. But with Bush, its a sign of a facile campaign...

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Why does this bring to mind Monty Python's Black Knight?

Is it the use of 'rearm' and 'stump'?

ARTHUR:
Eh. You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Oh, had enough, eh?
ARTHUR:
Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Yes, I have.
ARTHUR:
Look!
BLACK KNIGHT:
Just a flesh wound.
<kick>
ARTHUR:
Look, stop that.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Chicken!
<kick>
Chickennn!

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-04.htm

[JPace]

6. Poor furious george doesn't realize the more he shows

his infantile fury the more he looks like
that little mustached guy that started
World War 2. Come to think of it they both
launched unnecessary wars...something else
they have in common.