Just a theory.......

[pnziii]

I know hear that Republicans are scared of Kerry winning the nomination.
They also told us that they wanted us to nominate Dean because it would be an easy victory.
But it seems that most of the conservative organizations were attacking Dean more than Kerry. Remember that ad by Growth for America that played in Iowa. It was directed straight at Dean.

If we are to believe that the Republicans were not afraid of Dean and really feared Kerry why do they attack Dean more?

Reverse psychology? Tell us the strong candidate is weak and the weak candidate is strong?

I think so because I see more and more Dems quoting RWer's that Kerry is stonger.
Seems to me if I was on the other side I would pretend to be afraid of the wrong candidate to affect primary voters.

Just a theory.

[NewHampster]

1. Amazing how people catch on

after Dean folks have been trying to tell DU for ages.

Wake Up

Dean is Karl Rove's Worst Nightmare

[meegbear]

2. They attacked Dean more ...

becuase he WAS the front runner. Since at the moment he isn't, and Kerry is, it's Kerry turn for attacks.

Just a theory.

[blm]

3. Learn more about why the Rightwing DOESN'T want to face Kerry.

No other lawmaker has exposed the corruption of their government figures more than Kerry has.


>>>>>
Kerry and the Iran-Contra Fight
Before the conventional wisdom sets in on Kerry as some kind of careful pol with no bite, folks should reach back and remember his role back in the 1980s in challenging the whole Reagan administration ties to money laundering, drug running and the Contras down in Central America. Kerry was willing for years to face down the CIA, the Justice Department and narco-terrorists in pursuing the dirty dealings of the Reagan-North network of rightwing drug-linked paramilitaries.

http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000945.shtml

[pnziii]

6. But since then...........

Kerry has become a career politician.
Can we say voted for IWR and voted for Patriot Act.

What has Kerry done in the last 4 years to stand up to the Republicans

[HootieMcBoob]

7. Kerry also has

Rand Beers and Joseph Wilson on his team. He'll be ok.

[On the Road]

8. Thank You for That, blm

That's a part of Kerry's background that I'm not familiar with and is very important to me.

I've been afraid of Kerry being too establishment and too compliant with the Republicans. This shows him in a different light.

[seaglass]

4. I don't know, put on your right-winger hat.

Why not take out the person who is the most stridently vocal against Bush because the message might start sinking in (Dean)?

That would make sense to me.

The thing is that I like Dean's anti-Bush message and I think a lot of other people do too. But just because someone likes the message it doesn't mean they automatically like (or will vote for) the messenger.

[NewHampster]

9. But don't you think that maybe they framed your view

of the messenger? Maybe "unelectable" came from Rove or Kerry camps. That angry rather than forceful came from Rove or Kerry camps.

THINK for yourselves Dems.

Let's watch and see which Candy Crowley type is the first to plant the "Kerry is so Patrician looking" frame in our heads. Within a week people on this board will be calling Kerry, Patrician.

[seaglass]

10. Nope.

I've been a long time supporter of Kerry. He's my Senator, he has a great liberal record, my husband is a firefighter and he has given immense support to them and I actually like Kerry's style and temperament.

I'm sorry you have so little confidence in anyone who doesn't see the world through your eyes that you assume they must be brainwashed by the media.

[bloom]

5. RE:

"But it seems that most of the conservative organizations were attacking Dean more than Kerry."

Maybe they were attacking whoever was ahead.

Today - Ed Gillespie -RNC chairman @ the Am. Conservatives event on Cspan2 was going after Kerry pretty hard for being a liberal. He said something about Kerry claiming to have camped on the Mall with the anti-war vets when he really was in a Georgetown apartment.... Trying to show him as being a phony - I guess.

Also attacking Kerry's stands on abortion, taxes, marriage, federal judges...

Claiming victories on economy, education, society in general and the world's safety and freedom.

[FarLeftRage]

11. Yes, that is interesting

and knowing what I do, this may be true...