Josh nails it on Dems & bin Laden

[MattNC]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003851

[RafterMan]

1. Yup. Nailed it.

"If you're a Democrat and you notice your fellow Democrats dipping into these spasms of fecklessness and weak-kneedism, as I've described above, I strongly encourage to slap them around a few times and tell them to get a hold of themselves. If you're experiencing such spasms, by all means, slap yourself a few times and tell yourself the same thing."

[tomfodw]

3. Owww!

Just slapped myself - that hurt!

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Bush got punked...

...big-time, on national television, by a guy assumed to be dead, dying, in captivity, or reduced to irrelevance.

And this is supposed to help the Bush campaign?

Kerry should just do the 'more in sorrow than in anger' thing and keep on keepin' on.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Now this bit about the Bush*ies is SO typical. . .

"The Bush campaign is trying to use the OBL tape to slap the Kerry campaign around, knock them off their stride, and argue that for Kerry now even to mention anything about the president's failure to bag bin Laden is the height of shamefullness."

"The president's communications director even told reporters that the only acceptable thing would be for John Kerry to observe a twelve or more hour moratorium on attacks on the president, even though the president should be allowed to continue attacking John Kerry."

ARE THEY FUCKING NUTS??? :grr: APPARENTLY!


"That is what they're playing for. (That's also the reason the Bush campaign didn't allow the Kerry campaign to be briefed on the soon-to-be-released tape until late in the day. The president knew about it early in the morning.)"

"If the Kerry campaign falls for this it would be the height of foolishness. In itself the bin Laden video is not a matter of controversy. What the president's campaign is trying to do is either goad the Kerry campaign into three days of passivity in the run-up to the election or fuss up a debate about the supposed outrageousness of Kerry's faulting the president for allowing bin Laden to remain at large. The Kerry folks should not play into that trap. The answer is to keep to the game-plan and remain on the offensive."

OR *WE* WOULD BE FUCKING NUTS!!!

[Straight Shooter]

5. Okay, a 12-hour moratorium, you got it, baby

Immediately following bush's concession speech

[billyoc]

14. No, a 12 hour moratorium on bush bashing,

While the indictments are being drawn up in Jan. ;)

[CalProf]

6. Mr. Marshall is right on the money

Let's all keep our eyes straight ahead, following Lt. Kerry into the fire.

[skordane]

7. There is Only One Reason Bin Laden Released the Tape Now

Because Bush let him escape from Tora Bora.

[Technowitch]

8. ABSOLUTELY!

Josh is dead to rights.

C'mon people. OBL alive and poking Bush for attacking the wrong country, AND for reading My Pet Goat when he should've been reacting DOES ZERO to help Bush and TONS to help Kerry.

Only the Repugs and their 'tools' want to convince us up is down and black is white.


Don't let 'em. Just don't let 'em.

Work hard, get out the vote, and know what the 2004 election will be one for the history books. Because we're gonna win, big.

[LVdem]

9. I never felt as if this new tape was the beginning of the end...

I was concerned about the timing, but my confidence in the election's outcome has not wavered.

Kerry 2004

[gardenista]

10. I bow to your greatness, Josh Marshall. nt

[ciaobox]

11. SOMEONE FORWARD THIS TO THE KERRY CAMPAIGN

Every single higher up of the campaign should read it.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003851

BTW - This echoes what I have been saying for weeks. I am DEAD 100% CONFIDENT that Kerry will win by a landslide and I have felt that way for MONTHS. I have been totally energized that the rest of community has been sharing my enthusiasm over the last week. Let's keep it up! We are going to win HUUGE on Tuesday. But we CAN'T get thrown off-message.

[goodwalt]

17. Been telling people the same

thing, and everybody looks at me like I've been smoking crack. Between the massive turn-out, new voter registration, cell-phone only users, expatriot voting, Howard Stern, and a significant number of Repugs that have given up on chimpy- this one is going to be a lopsided win.

[Thrill]

12. come out Swinging tomorrow

[depakid]

13. You can see much of what he's talking about right here on DU

"he foreign policy focus of the Kerry campaign has long been the president's failure to maintain the focus on al Qaida, as evidenced by his failure to capture bin Laden and dismantle his network. To abandon that message now would be insanity.

If you're a Democrat and you notice your fellow Democrats dipping into these spasms of fecklessness and weak-kneedism, as I've described above, I strongly encourage to slap them around a few times and tell them to get a hold of themselves. If you're experiencing such spasms, by all means, slap yourself a few times and tell yourself the same thing."

[Demi_Babe]

15. right on

[Randi_Listener]

16. I like the numbers.

How the fuck can you get Sodom Hussein out of a rat hole but can't catch a 6'5" stack of shit?

Bottom line: Focus on Bin Laden, catch Bin Laden. Derelict in your duty, Bin Laden pokes you in the fucking eye.