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Most of the noise is coming from the left. I don't think the undecided voters would even hear about it if you just left it to the right-wingers to talk about. Non-issue.

Posted by Fnarf | October 31, 2006 5:08 PM
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We should be calling out all of the right wing freaks for being shameless liars!

Posted by Andrew | October 31, 2006 5:13 PM
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Why did he have to go and say that the FUCKING WEEK BEFORE THE ELECTION?!

Jesus, he could have picked any other time to open his big yap. I hardly think this will save the republicans, theres just too much going against them (but then again, i said the same thing in 2004). But still, it was a goddamn stupid thing to say for someone in his position.

Posted by brandon h | October 31, 2006 5:34 PM
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Fortunately, Allen staffers decided to attack someone who asked the Senator a question on videotape so there's a competing jackass story.

Posted by Aexia | October 31, 2006 5:47 PM
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Actually, this will have minimal affect. Remember that saying "All Politics is Local?" Well, it is when it isn't a presidential year. This will move only a few fence sitters as most voters have already made up their minds on their Congressional candidates.

Posted by Proud Gay Republican | October 31, 2006 6:00 PM
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It's going to be a great year for Democrats. Republicans caused global warming and the war in Iraq. Next year Democrats will be in power and there will be no more war, and global warming will have stopped.


I get so excited about how good the news is for Democrats, and the Republicans at my work hate it!

Posted by Republicans suck | October 31, 2006 6:51 PM
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Oh for Christ's sake Don't be such ninnies. Everyone wants the dems to "grow a pair", and when they do, you act like someone farted at a meeting of the Epworth League.

He stuck up for himself. Good for him. If the Democrats had done this starting back in the 70's, we wouldn't be in this situation now.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay | October 31, 2006 7:07 PM
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Speaking of attack, I was just watching a little teaser for Fox News that says, "and tonight at 11 see why John Kerry won't apologize for what he said about our troops."

He really did botch a perfectly good joke.

Posted by monkey | October 31, 2006 7:11 PM
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So stop repeating it, Dan. Christ. Or at least make it clear that he's talking about motherfucking President Bush.

Posted by Carl Ballard | October 31, 2006 7:12 PM
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Kerry isn't sticking up for himself, he's being irresponsible. It's like he has no idea how this game is played at all. This doesn't show balls, it shows a profound lack of judgement.

I just saw a LOCAL news promo that said, "Why John Kerry won't apologize for what he said about our troops, tonight at 11." Is it likely that this will swing everything the other way? No, but it's certainly a dream come true for the GOP.

Posted by anthony | October 31, 2006 7:18 PM
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Don't get your panties in a knot, Dan! Jeez, Dems are so beaten down and fatalistic, they see every fucking little thing as the BIG MISTAKE that's gonna ruin their election night party. I thought the NJ Supreme Ct. already cost the election for the Dems? No wait, now it's Kerry. Please, just shut up about it. You really think people who are pissed off at Bush cause of Iraq and the spending and everything else are going to forget all about that cause of something John Kerry said?

Posted by cite | October 31, 2006 7:41 PM
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@8 & 10:

If Kerry had said point-blank, "I think the troops are doing a great job, but your current boss, the idiot, inbred monkey who got elected president instead of me is a big, fat, lying sonofabitch for putting sending you over there on false pretenses", FOX and the so-called "mainstream media" would have figured out a way to spin it as a dis against the troops.

Posted by COMTE | October 31, 2006 7:56 PM
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I wish John "I voted for it before I voted against it" Kerry would shut up as much as the next person, but I don't think this will be all that damaging. Elections this time out seem to be turning more on how individual candidates are perceived than the party as a whole, and Kerry isn't up for election this year.

Posted by Orv | October 31, 2006 8:06 PM
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Two words.
Plausible deniability.
If the 'liberal' (yeah right!) media can make us believe that just enough people didn't vote the right way, then Diebold et al can hand the election to the Republicans again.
And instead of blaming the black boxes, the disenfranchisement and the rigged elections, we'll all blame eachother like good liberals (again).

About that 'liberal' media. In nearly an hour of CNN coverage this afternoon I only heard the Republican side of things. Well, maybe they mentioned in passing that it was an attempt at a joke, but they certainly didn't clarify what was happening. Instead they focused on (replaying and repeating over and over) the Republican attack and how it was likely to affect the elections. For fun I watched Sheppard Smiths Fox 'News' for the next hour, and got about what I would expect from the right wing propaganda machine that is Fox, but I dare say it was less damaging than CNN.

Keith Olberman (perhaps the only real journalist on TV?) finally put it into perspective, which sadly showed NBC's national news which I watched afterward to be disappointing (ie not clarifying, and effectively in favour of the R's) broadcast.

Yes, sometimes I do have too much time on my hands :)


Posted by K X One | October 31, 2006 9:24 PM
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who's john kerry?

Posted by avi | October 31, 2006 10:46 PM
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And away we go! If you listen carefully, you can hear the frantic GOP media machine re-working all their election ads to capitolize on Kerry's uber-stupid remark and by this time tomorrow night, all we'll hear on the TV and radio is why do the Democrats hate the troops in Iraq?

What a gift to the GOP! Now they can distract from everything else and turn the whole election on a referendum of how much the Dems want the terrorists to win and how they hope our troops die in Iraq. It doesn't matter that it's not true - if we've learned anything from the GOP it's that when they've got their new talking point and it's all that will be talked about until next Tuesday.

I used to think Kerry was intelligent. I was wrong.

Posted by montex | November 1, 2006 12:31 AM
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I hate to say it, but the fatalists are right. There are too many redneck hick idiots out there voting to count on intellect coming through. Just take a stroll through my town. All these yahoos were just waiting for something to point to that validates their "Liberals hate America" idea. Again, if you think facts will win out over bullshit, you are deluded.

I wasn't convinced the dems would take either house before Kerry opened his stupid cocktrap.

Posted by Mike in MO | November 1, 2006 5:56 AM
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He isn't all that wrong.

And if the GOP wants to spin it as an insult, it says more about them than it does about Kerry.

And yet the lefties are MAD AT HIM for telling it like it is. Says a lot, really.

Posted by Gomez | November 1, 2006 8:31 AM
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I wouldn't worry too much about this:

-- People are smarter than you think (despite the 2004 vote for Bush) and they see this for what it is: nonsense that doesn't much matter to them.

-- The elections may be for Congress but they are perceived as local (Tip O'Neill said: All politics is local). And local issues and concerns will drive them. This spat between Kerry and Bush won't impact people making what they see as a local decision.

Posted by Prospero | November 1, 2006 8:56 AM
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people are worried about this for the same reason that they worried about the new jersey gay marriage/civil union ruling--because they fear anything that may re-energize the republican base. it's pretty clear that the republicans won in 2004 because of higher turnout, and if republicans get a second wind, that may help them again.

Posted by Ginger | November 1, 2006 9:49 AM
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You're all being played.

Why aren't you in a tizzy over Bush saying a vote for Democrates is a win for terrorists?

Posted by lovcat | November 1, 2006 11:21 AM

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