Kerry has to start slamming Bush HARD as a liar.

[Ruffhowse]

I've posted this before, the best tactic Kerry can employ now is to attack Bush on his honesty. There are SO many examples of Bush lies out there. Kerry needs to create ads that cite a few examples of Bush's dishonesty, and then finish with a simple statement-"George Bush, you just can't trust him". Some good testimonials from average voters thrown in would be good also. Something like--man in the street, "You know, at first I thought Bush was going to be an OK President, but after he lied to us about WMD's in Iraq, I just don't trust him anymore". The "can't trust him" tactic works really well if you just keep repeating it, and the beauty of it is it's hard to refute. Plus it sticks real good. The repugs have been doing this with the flip-flopping issue, and it's time we strike back in kind.

[still_one]

1. YES!!!

[movonne]

2. Yes, yes, yes.

[bringbackfdr]

3. Exactly right

Kerry can now say that he tried to stick to the issues, he tried to talk about the country's future, but Shrub's scumbags kept draggint rhe campaign into the mud with Shrub's full knowledge ... if there is such a thing.

[Joanne98]

4. He's a COWARD too

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. Skip the "I thought we could trust him" part, though

Only someone not paying attention would have said or believed that.

SHOVE IT! - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - Hero Kerry AWOL Bush
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[AgadorSparticus]

6. no shit!!!! i think he's been a little slow on responding to the mud-

mudslinging from the right. he's got to come right back at them and not hesitate. don't give them time to sink into people's minds.

[Parche]

7. ads

Do better then they do with their phrases

You cant trust him, will stick really good, keep saying it over and
over, and the people will start to learn it

[Eric J in MN]

8. Yes. Call Bush a liar. People won't vote for a man they don't

trust.

[Ruffhowse]

9. The liar issue is Bush's biggest vulnerability, we need to get the word

out so that those creating the ads for Kerry can start focusing on this, both with the Kerry campaign and with the 527's supporting him. And never say that he's a liar, best to say "You can't trust him". It's harder to refute a negative like that, and isn't as mud-slinging sounding as liar.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. We can help!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x626342

Printable flyer here:
http://members.ispwest.com/kbs/Photos/TheyAllLied.pdf

[mongo]

16. Great flyer - thanks!

I am wondering how many of these they will let me stock at the local dem campaign HQ when it opens.

[marlakay]

11. Every poll I read shows people think Kerry is more honest!

So that could work if we keep saying Bush is liar.

[bigtree]

12. John Kerry's Acceptance Speech

"As president, that is my first pledge to you tonight: As president, I will restore trust and credibility to the White House."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25678-2004Jul29.html

[snippy]

13. Agreed. This should have been done a long time ago.

Except for the American media the entire world knows that Bush is one of the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that apparently is something Bush can not do.

For example:

Bush says he fell off his bicycle because of the heavy rains and he watched on television on the morning of 9/11 as the first plane hit the first WTC tower and John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and Bush would veto McCain-Feingold and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault but the White House revealed that Clarke briefed the press on background about Bush fighting terrorism which means that unnamed White House sources may not be identified even when Bush wants to and everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his National Guard service but it was Clinton's fault that Bush did not show up for duty which was after Bush volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God ordered him to smite Saddam because the 70 lines of embryonic stem cells and more arsenic in the water and more mercury in the air and the completely safe air in New York City folowing 9/11 prove that republican science is better than sound science and the Bush administration did not illegally conspire to illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2 million new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is why Bush said he would veto the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the 9/11 Commission but now claims credit for their creation and the White House cooperated with the 9/11 Commission which is why the White House withheld documents and called the republicans on the Commission before Clarke testified and why the White House did not coordinate the attacks on the integrity and bipartisanship of the Commission and why Bush and Cheney negotiated with the Commission that the two of them would testfy one time only but never again since the dental xrays prove that Bush spoke with the CIA director everyday and did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2.6 million new jobs being created even though the $400 billion Medicare prescription drug decorative turkey was not labeled $550 billion and was passed without bribery or criminal deception and was not criminally promoted by the Bush administration using taxpayers' money for propaganda purposes which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault just as acts of terrorism have decreased since 9/11 if you do not count the increase in the number of acts of terrorism and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an "urgent" but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office even though it was the subject of his first national security council meeting in February 2001 and in December 2001 when plans for the invasion were being finalized Bush said he was focused on the military operations in Afghanistan and then the Carrier Costume Party was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough "Mission Accomplished" banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3 million new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and since Bush does not watch television news he did not know about the republican torture pranks occurring in Iraq until he saw the pictures while watching television news and that is why Bush who will use the jawbone of an ass to force OPEC to open the spigots and who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which are Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

Ridiculing Bush for his compulsive and incessant lying needs to become common.

FIRE THE LIAR

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. I agree!

He lied about THIS and everything else since he stole the damn election! :grr:

[TNMOM]

15. Agreed!! Bush is a LIAR

Staying on this message will eventually erode all the middle-of-the-road thiglican support of a "christian" man. Bush is a foul-mouth, liar who is a cowardly, slimey/sleazy POS. That's framing the choice in a way that will appeal to born-agains.
lThe choice should be for civility/competence and lying/lazy/sleazy.

[bossfish]

17. And close the ad with a shot...

of W with his pants bursting into flames...

mmmm...maybe that is a little over the top.

[Nicholas_J]

18. Well here in Florida

In a county just to the south of where I live, the Bush campaign was caught co-ordinating their campaign activities with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which along with the recent information about funding for that group, should bring a quick death to the anti-Kerry Swifty accusations. I wish the media would be a little more forthcoming in letting the public know how such citations are awarded, and that the clai,s of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that Kerry exagerated the events in order to get citations is simply something that absolutely could not have happened as the military requires independent confirmation of events, not the record as cited by the person being awarded the citation, in order to provide proof that the person being awarded the citation deserved it. You don get s silver or bronze star by asking for one, or by the contents of your own records. Some one else has to recommend you be awarded the citation, and confirmation of the events for which the citation is awarded have to be confirmed by people who were present at the time the events occured. The lies of the conservative swift boat veterans are simply the most vicious and undigfnified allegations made by people who oppose Kerry becasue of his antiwar stance when he came back from Vietnam, who want to strip him of his decorations for reasons realted to their own personal beliefs about Kerry's anti-war stance after Vietnam. Kerry made an idiot of O'Neill back then and O'Neill is so vindictive about this that he will get back at Kerry using any means possible.