Clinton vs Kerry

[MazeRat7]

Serious question folks:

If (when) Kerry is president how do you think the right will react ? Will their tricks, investigations, and vitriol be greater than or less than what we saw under Clinton ?

I am guessing greater. I truly think they will go into full melt-down mode and try anything to smear him, block initiatives, impeach him, plant false rumors, etc, etc, etc.

I really believe that winning the election is only the first in a long series of battles to get this country back on the right track.

Comments ?

MZr7

[Nightjock]

1. If it's a landslide for Kerry

..which I firmly believe...I think they will pretty much behave themselves because they need to change the image of thier party.

You don't go from 80% approval rating 3 years ago to being swept out of office without reflection. They can't be that dumb.

[blm]

2. I think they'll be too busy defending themselves when BCCI is re-opened.

The American people will see that thanks to Republicans, terrorists and their criminal corporate financiers were protected for over a decade and over the interests and security of American cirizens.

[freetobegay]

3. No matter what they threw a President Clinton

He still did America good. Kerry IMO will do the same it's called integrity, something freepers don't have.

[wadestock]

4. They went full tilt after Clinton....

Because Clinton got through essential legislation before the Repukes took over Congress.

Now they have Congress and they may maintain it. There may not be a sufficient cause to go after him with such insanity as they did with Clinton.

But then again...the essential threshold of pain for bad business and sleazy tactics has risen that much more....so you could argue that they'd simply lower the boom on him.

[Cyrano]

5. If Kerry wins, they won't be able to afford to leave him alone.

He will appoint the next attorney general and the mountain of investigations of Republicans, from Tom DeLay on, will go on for years.

If Kerry wins, the Republican congress will start attacking on January 20, 2005 and won't stop until the Democrats regain control of congress.

The one thing that everyone has to understand is that the criminal thugs who have been screwing us for years will not go quietly.

[CityHall]

6. The anti-war thing really sets them off

Kerry is everything they hate, even more so than Clinton. It's the veteran types who can't stand to see their intense experiences devalued before people who weren't there who are the core of the vindictive right. They'll hate Kerry beyond belief, but they won't get the same backing that the anti-Clinton forces got from the conspiracy wingnuts.

That movement lost its steam after Oklahoma City. But the infrastructure that it put in place eventually stumbled on the Lewinski mess before it completely fell apart. These days, the conspiracy buffs are all directed at Bush, and I can't see that changing. Plus, I doubt Kerry has any interesting scandals, and they can't blame him for everything that happens in an entire state like they did with Clinton.

[Bandit]

7. O'Reilly will be gone and hopefully Rush will also

That is a major part of where the hatred comes from. If we can get the hatred off the air we may just re-unite America into a United States of America once more. We must at the very least get Rush off Armed Forces Radio. There is no justifiable reason to politicize our military. Rush is a political show not entertainment. It is hatred and we need to somehow put a stop to it.

[LittleClarkie]

8. I'm hoping Coutier crashes too

that's alot of hate-mongering right there.

[MazeRat7]

9. I am concerned

I know I said that already, but I really think Kerry will try to do the "right" thing.
The comment about "integrity" was dead on. It just seems like when we (our team) gets someone in power that could actually make a positive difference, the narrow minded scum oozes out of the cracks and hoses up the entire plan.

I don't like putting people in stereotypical buckets, but there is a faction of this country I wish would just stop breeding. They care only for themselves and they are causing irreparable damage to so many others.

How do you fix that ? Can you fix that ? What can we do to change the minds of the small minded ? I am really frustrated with this, the choices to me are obvious but apparently (given a "dead heat" in the polls) those choices are not so obvious to at least half of the voting public.

*grrrrrrr.... end of rant....

Thanks for all the great responses so far, its nice to be around like minded folks.

MZr7