Posted By Russ Emerson on September 7, 2004 at 11:30 am
No sooner do I point out that mud is certain to be flung at Bush, than we see this tripe:
Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s.
She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: “Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either.”
Kelley, who alongside Oliver Stone and Michael Moore can be counted on to lend whole new nuances of meaning to the words “truthful” and “accurate,” had to go to a former sister-in-law to find someone to make the allegation. A disgruntled former sister-in-law, no less.
Perhaps Kelley’s business card should include a motto along the lines of “If you have an axe to grind, I have the whetstone.”
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Posted By Russ Emerson on September 6, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Folks, there’s been a lot of good news in the few days since the convention, and a lot of news that may turn out to favor the President’s campaign.
- The President appears to have received a decent bounce in the polls.
- The electoral vote count has shifted towards Bush.
- The Kerry campaign is melting down so hard and so fast that it makes Chernobyl look like a candle dripping wax.
And that’s just the news we know about already… but….
But.
We have yet to see the full venom, wrath, bile [Harsh language alert! – Ed.] and dirty tricks of the Kerry camp unleashed. They will try their usual smears, and they will repeat old and new canards with, we can expect, the help of their allies in the mainstream media. We have to remain on the lookout for those attacks, and vigorously defend against them.
At the same time, the best defense is a good offense. No, I am not suggesting that we make things up about Kerry. Indeed, nothing could hurt our credibility more.
The difference between their candidate and ours, though, is that we don’t have to make things up. All we have to do is point out the truth.
Folks, it’s still a long way until Election Day. A surge like we’ve seen is no reason to call it a win, no reason to declare victory. As they say, the only poll that matters is going to be on the 2nd of November.
As the great Yogi Berra said, “it ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Optimism is a great thing, but don’t get cocky.
So until Election Day: keep charging, keep speaking up, keep moving forward, keep fighting. Make a contribution, start your own blog, or volunteer to work for the campaign.
Then, on the 3rd of November, we can all take a deep breath and relax, secure in the knowledge of a job well done.
[Cross-posted at Blogs For Bush.]
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