Dear Bart:
Here's an e-mail that I just sent to the Democratic National Committee on the night before the Kerry/Bush debate:
At this point I'm sure Senator Kerry is getting
sick of receiving unsolicited advice about the debate strategy.
Nonetheless, I'll offer some more: I've been
watching tapes of Bush in debates. This is a man who is extremely
prickly about direct criticism. When he's under
attack, his face constricts and his brow furrows. I would
recommend that Senator Kerry really go after
him, with a direct verbal onslaught, throwing one strong charge
after another at Bush.
Bush doesn't react well to criticism of this nature.
He'll get rattled, and he'll get addled, and he'll start blurting out
inane comments. Believe me, I'm not saying that
Bush is stupid or that he's a bad debater; quite to the contrary.
What I'm saying is that Bush is very, very thin-skinned.
If someone goes after him hard, his first instinct is to have
that person removed from the room. Granted, I
know Senator Kerry is mindful about looking and sounding too
strident, but at this juncture, for strategic
reasons, he needs to initiate and sustain a vociferous onslaught of charges
and accusations against Bush during the debates.
Bush has a thin repertoire of standard lines to throw back as ripostes,
but after he runs through his little stock of
apothegms, he'll start repeating himself.
Once he's feeling backed into a corner, then I
think Kerry takes over the debate and carries the day.
Go on the attack, Senator, go on the unrelenting
attack.
Donald P
Subject: you're as arrogant as Bush
Bart, you wrote:
> I'm trying to get Kerry to join what's left of the fight.
> If you know someone working harder to try to wake Kerry up...
And a lot worse, it's just not worth the
time to look for your usual DEM attacks.
What makes you think Kerry or anyone around
him reads your shit?
I think it's a pretty safe bet the Kerry
camp has not been reading bartcop.com
Based on your begging lately, I'd say not
even your faithful followers.
You're working too hard to sell subscriptions!
Compared to who or what?
Do you own a TV?
Do you own a radio?
If you want to sale a product, attacking
your prospective clients is not good for business.
Yellow Dog Democrat
You have not seen me attack John Kerry.
I've been screaming at him to "Wake up!" because America
is on fire.
Do you deny that we saw a very-much-awake John Kerry Thursday
night?
The John Kerry we saw Thursday can beat Bush next month, but that
sleepy guy
from July, August and most of September didn't have much of a
chance, in my opinion.
BTW, I see no reason for Democrats to attack each other.
Subject: Chinaco
Hey Bart,
I want to toast Wal with the Chinaco but can’t seem to find it in any stores here in northern California.
Anyway, you’re doing a great job swinging the
big hammer.
You have the honor of your website being blocked
by the freepin’ company I slave for.
Keep hammerin’.
Timo
Timo, most Chevy's Mexican Restaurants stock Chinaco Anejo.
We had some in Santa Rosa, if you're anywhere near there...
OR, Click
Here and search for "Chinaco Anejo."
$48 - not a bad price.
Subject: you are right to be suspicious
Bart:
First of all let me say to the other liberals
out there that John Kerry IS NOT ABOVE CRITICISM.
People have been bashing you because you are
criticizing the man who has the best chance to unseat
the lying, murdering monkey. One thing I have
noticed about you is that you seem to have a pretty
good grasp of reality. Liberals are always critical,
even of their own. I guess we just want things done right.
The election is only the FIRST hurdle in this
mess. It is my opinion that the BFEE will loose the election,
despite their best efforts to steal and/or cancel
it. Even if Kerry wins and can manage to keep the “activist judges”
\in the supreme court (god, I love saying that)
from unconstitutionally handing power to the smirking chimp,
I doubt very seriously that they will go quietly.
There are quite a few monkeys in the pentagon that would
just love it if the president declared a state
of martial law and refused to leave office.
What really scares me is if bunnypants does this and then says something like this:
“It is important that America remain resolve and
united on the war in terror. We must not send mixed
messages to the world. Therefore, we can no longer
have voices of decent within our boarders.
Today I am announcing the ‘America United No
Matter What’ initiation that will cleanse our great nation
of the descent that is holding us back on our
holy crusade to rid the free world of terrorism. Starting today,
those who would criticize America and her great
president will no longer be considered Americans but
enemy combatants and will be dealt with accordingly.”
That may sound a bit paranoid but just look at
the crap that they have had the audacity to pull so far.
Are “thought police” really outside the realm
of possibility?
Based on the debate, I would say the Kerry or
one of his advisors is probably reading Bartcop.
He could have done so much more in the debate
but he really showed GWB for what he is.
Hats off to John Kerry.
Steven O
Steven, I agree, but I think they'll fabricate a "crisis" and promise
to turn over power to Kerry,
"As soon as they get past the crisis," and
then sit back and see how much the Democrats fight for it.
We are a party who's been kneeling down and bending over for the sons
of bitches for 11.5 years.
They'd be crazy to hand power over to "the appeasers" without a fight.
Subject: debate follow upo comment
Hey Bart,
My theory as to why the media didn't do their
Gore 2000 thing has a lot to do with The Daily Show, you, Atrios,
Digby, Kos, and everybody else in the blogosphere
who has proven adept at the immediate responses to egregious
reporting atrocities. They know that way
more people are watching their every move, and will call them on it.
Also, here's something I thought of quite a few
weeks ago. The bosses of the media "kewl kids" may have finally
realized that no amount of public relations spin
can foist their stupid little monkey-man product on the public anymore,
and may have decided to cut their losses while
biding their time making a Kerry administration deadlocked and clearing
the way for another Crusader Republican.
So the memo's gone out to all but the Freepers who don't know how to read
anyway.
Whatever happens, the work is not over.
Best,
Jen R.
Subject: the debate
I think the best line from Kerry in the debate
was when he said bush decide to outsource
the hunt for Osama binLaden too. I couldn't tell
if bush was drinking vinegar or shitting in his pants,
but his facial expressions were great!
I totally agreed with you that Kerry wasn't responding
well to the GOP slime attack machine, but I think
he did very well in the debate, and smirk just
proved how UNpresidential he is. If Kerry can keep up that
demeanor for the next 4 weeks, then it'll be
(as Randi Rhodes says) Kerry in a landslide!
Keep up the good work!
Steve
Subject: Monkey gets asked a real question
Monkey was also shocked that not all questions
are
"So how does it feel to have God on your side?".
The kind of questions that come from the screened
and selected audiences
that go into a frenzy every time he says "stay
the course".
Cheryl T
Subject: Rush's comment
Bart, you wrote,
> 'If Kerry wins, there's no telling what that crazy SOB will do
when he
> gets in the White House because nobody knows what he stands
for.'
> -- the vulgar Pigboy, in a panic, realizing for the first
time that his boy could lose."
Just like we understood what Bush stood for: 'compassionate
conservatism,' not raiding the surplus,
being a 'uniter not a divider,' being President
of ALL the people; not just his constituency, being humble...?
Shall I continue with all his lies and flip flops?
I'm sure HE will...
Ken C
Subject: early poll numbers
Of course Bush got his ass handed to him.
If the smirkster would have even won ONE single
talking point during the entire debate,
the whore press would still be hammering that
one point down everyone's throat right now.
Even Karl Rove said that "Kerry was a better
debater".
The hilarious thing, was the "fair and balanced"
poll, got freeped early, and showed chimpy
as the clear winner, but by noon Kerry had even
taken the lead on that one. I think I need to
repeat that once more. KERRY EVEN WON THE FOX
NEWS POLL.
Of course that particular poll got taken down
by 12:01 and replaced with a "did the debate
change your mind about who you were going to
vote for" poll. Here in ultra right wing San Diego,
the letters to the Sunday paper showed about
an 8 to 1 ratio of Kerry won letters. It was great.
Now for the voice of reason. Right now, is not
the time for gloating, or complacency.
Now more than ever, Kerry needs to focus even
harder, because even though this last subject
supposedly was dubya's strong point, the economy
and domestic affairs could be very tricky for Kerry.
Come on, you know the American people, they can
be convinced that anything that hurts them is in
their best interests. Smirk still has the whore
press, and paid for shills called "political analysts" on
every local news station, that will be hammering
home that the economy is improving (like in our local
paper starting yesterday), and that we need to
cut even more taxes (again, like in our paper yesterday).
Kerry needs to hammer home the fact that this
is the first President since Hoover to have lost more jobs
than he created, and that OUR jobs here are disappearing
overseas. He needs to ensure everyone knows
and this current resident is doing nothing but
encouraging the modern day robber barons by giving them
those huge tax breaks so they can buy up the
faltering companies, and invest in moving jobs offshore,
and that he showing no signs, or even intentions
of stopping them.
Cheers
TJ
Subject: Kerry should say something like this:
"Mr. President, you have angered the entire world
with your arrogant, go-it-alone cowboy routine,
and the world has had it with you; not
us, not the United States, but you, George W. Bush.
You are more of a danger to us than bin
Laden, and certainly far more dangerous to the rest of the
world than Saddam and his non-existent
WMD. No one intends to help us as long as you are in the
White House. It is really that simple,
but then so are you; maybe that is why you have not figured that out yet.
Every time you say that when you have a
choice of taking the word of a "madman" or protecting the U.S,
you will protect the U.S. everytime, the
rest of the world thinks you are talking about yourself and cannot
figure out why you have not resigned, in
order to protect the U.S. Actually, you and you entire family should
move to Saudi Arabia. Idi Amin's old Villa,
where he lived out the remainder of his miserable, criminal life,
is available, now that he has finally kicked
the bucket."
Dot
Georgia