Just your average "Evil" conservative
John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy, “has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s campaign Web site came from”. It has his signature on it, but he says he never saw it, never signed it, and never approved it.
Kerry is looking less and less credible as things go along…
Full story here.
Drudge is reporting that Tom Daschle is running an ad in South Dakota that is very favorable towards President Bush:
Announcer:
Sen. Tom Daschle: Tonight, the President has called us again to greatness, and tonight we answer that call.
Male Voice: In our country’s hour of need, Tom Daschle made us proud.
Sen. Richard Durbin: Tom Daschle called us together and said, ‘we have to keep this nation safe and secure.’ I thought that was one of his finest moments. He really said in those moments what all of us felt, that before we are Democrats, before we are Republicans, we’re Americans.
Sen. Carl Levin: Tom Daschle has a great inner strength and toughness, which is why Tom is such a great leader.
Male Voice: Senator Daschle helped forge a consensus to rebuild our military.
Headline: Daschle: Time to Unite Behind Troops, Bush
On Screen: Daschle and President Bush hug on House floor.
Male Voice: Tom won significant increases in homeland security and helped provide law enforcement new tools to track down terrorists.
Headline: Daschle, mayors pitch homeland security
Headline: Daschle Calls For More Body Armor For S.D. Soldiers in Iraq
Male Voice: And no one has done more to get our troops the equipment they need or ensure our veterans are taken care of when they return home.
Headline: Sen. Daschle receives ‘Unsung Hero’ award from American Legion
Daschle: I’m Tom Daschle and I approve this ad, because a strong military and a strong America is the best way to fight terrorism.
This is rather odd. So Daschle is jumping on the Bush bandwagon to presumably garner more votes in the upcoming election. Apparently he’s facing a tough campaign against his Republican challenger John Thune. But it kind of makes you wonder why he wouldn’t be jumping on the Kerry bandwagon. I’m not too familiar with South Dakota’s political makeup. Maybe the state is moving to the right. Or maybe Daschle knows something about Kerry that we don’t. Yet.
UPDATE: RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke make this comment today: “Today the Democrats in New York are accusing the President of the United States of failing to lead and win the war on terror. Even Sen. Daschle must find these attacks baseless since his re-election campaign is running commercials embracing (literally hugging) President Bush’s leadership in the War on Terror.”
Ann Coulter gives Bill O’Reilly and Chris Matthews a fisking.
Charles Krauthammer details the pressure-cooker theory (Charles is always good, but I think this one is above average even for him).
David Limbaugh has the Swifties vs. Kerry scorecard.
Rich Lowry exposes the McCain myth.
WASHINGTON — President Bush has moved past Sen. John F. Kerry in three of the most hotly contested Midwestern battleground states despite continued doubts about the country’s direction and the president’s policies, new Los Angeles Times polls have found.
According to the surveys, Bush has opened leads within the margin of error in Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri — states at the top of both campaigns’ priority lists.
In Missouri, Bush leads among registered voters 46% to 44%; in Wisconsin, he leads 48% to 44%; and in Ohio, the president holds a 49% to 44% advantage, the surveys found.
Let’s see, the last time a Bush went up against a Massachusetts liberal, it was nearly a dead heat at this point, but GHWB ended up giving Dukakis a trouncing in the polls. I’m just waiting for Kerry to run an ad where he’s driving a tank. He’ll probably claim he drove one in Vietnam.
And says Kerry is lying, which the Kerry campaign has pretty much admitted already on the first Purple Heart story.
“Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher],” Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in Charleston, S.C. He said, “Kerry requested a Purple Heart.”
I guess that would mean Kerry owes the Navy seven more months in Vietnam…
According to this:
In the midst of the controversy between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Kerry campaign representatives about Kerry’s service in Vietnam, new questions have arisen.
The Kerry campaign has repeatedly stated that the official naval records prove the truth of Kerry’s assertions about his service.
But the official records on Kerry’s Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry’s military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a “Silver Star with combat V.”
But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, “Kerry’s record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a ‘combat V’ to anyone for a Silver Star.”
Naval regulations do not allow for the use of a “combat V” for the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration the Navy awards. None of the other services has ever granted a Silver Star “combat V,” either.
But that’s just the start of the story. It then goes on to detail how fake medal claims are not uncommon. Go read the whole thing.
New polling data from the Los Angeles Times:
WASHINGTON — President Bush heads into next week’s Republican National Convention with voters moving slightly in his direction since July amid signs that Sen. John F. Kerry has been nicked by attacks on his service in Vietnam, a Times poll has found.
For the first time this year in a Times survey, Bush led Kerry in the presidential race, drawing 49% among registered voters, compared with 46% for the Democrat. In a Times poll just before the Democratic convention last month, Kerry held a 2-percentage-point advantage over Bush.
That small shift from July was within the poll’s margin of error. But it fit with other findings in the Times poll showing the electorate edging toward Bush over the past month on a broad range of measures, from support for his handling of Iraq to confidence in his leadership and honesty.
Although a solid majority of Americans say they believe Kerry served honorably in Vietnam, the poll showed that the attacks on the senator from a group of Vietnam veterans criticizing his performance in combat and his antiwar protests at home have left some marks: Kerry suffered small but consistent erosion compared with July on questions relating to his Vietnam experience, his honesty and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.
Bush is on the upswing, and the GOP hasn’t even had their convention yet. Can’t wait to see the numbers two weeks from now.
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