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Kerry’s Scare Tactics
By Matt Margolis | September 12, 2004
Right out of the Democrats playbook, Kerry implied in his TIME Magazine interview that Republicans use scare tactics in their campaign:
KERRY
…Jobs are at stake. The character of our country is at stake—whether we’re going to have people who traffic in fear instead of real solutions.TIME
It sounds as if you think the Bush strategy is based on scaring the country.KERRY
I think they are trying to do everything possible to divert attention from the real issues in front of the country, and their entire strategy for six months has been distorting my record and attacking me because they don’t have a record to run on.
Laughable as his last comment was, considering John Kerry spent… how long was it? 30 seconds on his twenty-year Senate record in his acceptance speech… and has made his entire campaign about Vietnam and not the the issues… neverthless, Kerry’s implication about scare tactics is clear…
Then of course, Kerry comes out with the accusation that the GOP will try and suppress the African American vote this election:
John Kerry suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush win in November. “We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election,” the Democratic presidential nominee told the Congressional Black Caucus.
“We are not going to stand by and allow acts of voter suppression, and we’re hearing those things again in this election.”
Kerry has a team of lawyers to examine possible voting problems to try to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election disputes. He also has said he has thousands of lawyers around the country prepared to monitor the polls on election day.
“What they did in Florida in 2000, some say they may be planning to do this year in battleground states all across this country,” Kerry said. “Well, we are here to let them know that we will fight tooth and nail to make sure that this time, every vote is counted and every vote counts.”
Who’s really using scare tactics, Mr. Kerry? The suppressed black vote myth has long since been debunked, and quite honestly, this tactic shows how desperate the Kerry campaign is getting, and indicates the strong influence the newly annointed Clintonites have on Kerry’s “refocused” campaign.
Did I mention that Kerry made that attack on the anniversary of 9-11?
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September 12th, 2004 at 4:56 pm
Isn’t that a common tactic among the [i]”guilty”[/i] that they would accuse the other side of doing exactly what they are guilty of?
September 24th, 2004 at 1:28 am
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September 30th, 2004 at 3:49 pm
How can you claim that the disenfranchisement of blacks in Florida has been debunked, when it is proven fact that, in fact, tens of thousands of blacks WERE disenfranchised through the creation of a felons list which consisted overwhelmingly of African Americans?
The list, created by AG Katherine Harris, was deeply flawed, including thousands of names of individuals with no criminal record, and severely undcounting latinos in FL.
This same list (or it’s newer version) was recently published, under threat of subpeona, by the State of Florida, and found to be absolutely riddled with inaccuracy.
The list has since been thrown out.
Based simply on this one item, forgetting for the moment any other actions which may have led to suppression of the black vote, I find your statements at the least mis-leading, and at worst racist.