Politics is an ugly business. Politics
also makes for rather bizarre bedfellows. In terms of vitriol, spite, chutzpah,
and sheer hit-for-way-too-long-with-an-ugly-stick repulsiveness, 2004 has plumbed
new depths. It started in 2003, before the lib/dem/soc/commie candidate had even
been selected from the gang of nine, with well-financed hatred focused on one
man.
Dubya.
For a year, we’ve heard the same refrain. ABB – Anybody
But Bush. Anybody could include Saddam, Hitler, bin Laden, Mao, Stalin, etc.,
but for the lib/dem/soc/commies, Hey, that’d be just fine. Besides, they’re all
closer to the political stance of the lib/dem/soc/commies of today anyhow. Bush
was a deserter, or AWOL, or a coward, or a terrorist, or a fascist, or a chickenhawk,
or whatever other derogatory terms the so-called left could pull out of its political
thesaurus.
Lib/dem/soc/commies got away with this. The 527 committees,
the bastard child of that unfortunate McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform
law, were running roughshod over minor issues like the truth. Well, that’s par
for the course, I suppose – this is politics we’re talking about. Nobody in the
media seemed to question these ads. Oh, a few talking heads would lament how negative
the ads were becoming. Odd thing, though – they always referred to Dubya’s ads.
The ones that asked direct questions about his opponents in the election, about
policies, about votes, about absences. Ooooh, that’s really negative! Only lib/dem/soc/commies
could be fearful of the truth. It’s like sunlight to vampires for those jokers.
The 527s (the number coming from some obscure IRS subchapter shinola or
other) had specific rules about how to be managed, how to be paid for, and how
candidates could relate to them. The money was no problem – 527s could suck in
as much cash as any donors wished to funnel in. Chief among the donors was one
George Soros. A financier, an immigrant, an enigma wrapped in a puzzle cloaked
in a crappy suit. A billionaire, or so we’ve all been told, who saw George W.
Bush as the most dangerous thing to happen to the planet since the Paulie Shore
movie marathon.
Mr. Soros decided that he would pledge money to several
of these 527 committees. To the tune of $12.7 MILLION. That we know of. A very
expensive tune, wouldn’t you say? Yet, nobody blinked an eye on the lib/dem/soc/commie
side, except to wipe away a tear of gratitude and kiss Mr. Soros’ ring. Money
was funneled into MoveOn.org (odd name, since it has never seemed able to ''move
on'' from Slick Willie’s impeachment or Gore’s electoral loss), MoveOn PAC, Americans
Coming Together (to defeat Dubya, it would seem), and probably others that none
of us have even heard of before.
All of this money, because one guy – one
– doesn’t like Dubya.
Now, if that were the end of it, we’d all be rather
bored. Yes, yes, trash Dubya, yawn, move along please, next ad, etc. But then,
a funny thing happened. Not funny ha-ha, but funny infuriating for the lib/dem/soc/commies.
Which is funny ha-ha to me. Well, a bit, anyway. A group of American citizens
– not rich power brokers, just regular folks – who decided to use the same law
as the lib/dem/soc/commies and tell what they know about the opposing candidate’s
service in Vietnam. These were men who served with the candidate, who fought along
side him, ate, slept, joked, laughed, cried, and went through the worst kind of
hell together.
These men were the core of the ''Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth.'' They filed affidavits, and swore under oath about what they witnessed
all those years ago. They wrote a book, they made a TV commercial, and they aired
it in a few key states where the Bush/Kerry vote is extremely critical.
The
lib/dem/soc/commies went mad with rage!
How DARE these people question
their candidate’s patriotism and service? How DARE they fund an ad with money
from a Texas house builder, who ponied up around $100,000 (or 1/127th of what
George Soros had shelled out for a year’s worth of hate-speak)? The lib/dem/soc/commies
began a furtive search for any possible links between the Swift Boat Veterans
for Truth and the Bush campaign. Oh, the Humanity! the Kerry Camp cried, as it
shifted into full female canine mode. It scrambled and found that a volunteer
for the Bush campaign had shown up in the second TV ad the Swift Vets had produced.
When the Bush campaign found out, the guy was gone. Still, though, the squealing
of the impaled suidaens continued.
Yet not a peep about George Soros.
Not a whisper about the manifold 527s that have been dragging America’s President
and Commander in Chief for the better part of a year. Not a single investigation
into the linkages between Jean François Kerrée and the committees who have been
at his political beck and call.
When my editor came to me last week and
asked me about an article on George Soros, I did my best to investigate the potential
linkages between him and these committees. There was a lot of information on that
subject. However, there was little in the way of direct linkage between Kerry
and Soros. Oh, if you do a Google search, you’ll find umpteen-thousand articles
and web pages that mention the two. You’ll find almost nothing that shows how
those two camps are intertwined.
Of course, I’m not a reporter or an investigative
journalist. I’m a columnist – a professional kvetch, if you will, who finds things
to crab about and puts them into a (hopefully) informative and enjoyable format.
I don’t have the background to dig up dirt on people.
However, to my considerable
relief this evening, NewsMax.com does. It has put together a rather telling (and
well resourced) article that links some rather disturbing issues. A bit of cross-selling
(ya want fries wit’ dat?) between the 527s and the DNC.
You can read the
entire article at: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/23/153719.shtml
but to make a long story short, MoveOn.org and their ilk are BUSTED!
I
particularly liked the irony that the Bush campaign released Col. Cordier immediately
upon learning of his participation in a Swift Vet ad, when coupled with the fact
that Kerry wouldn’t fire Zach Exley who used to be a DIRECTOR at MoveOn.org. Or,
lest we forget, Jim Jordan who used to be the Kerry campaign king only to move
onward and upward to Media Fund, another anti-Dubya 527 committee.
Despite
all of that evidence, the lib/dem/soc/commie media continue to swing the camera
away from the manifold Kerry/527 connections and focus instead on the miniscule
or imagined Bush/527 connections. Even Fox News, that supposed kingpin of the
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, has Bill O’Reilly bloviating on about how bad or wrong
the Swift Boat Veterans are, despite the fact they are providing sworn testimony
that Kerry has not provided. O’Reilly looks to official Navy documents to discount
the Swift Vets, but doesn’t seem to fathom that the documents were based on after-action
reports written by a self-aggrandizing political opportunist who didn’t give a
rat’s rear end about America, our troops, our POWs or anything other than himself.
O’Reilly’s blindness is disturbing, but sadly it is less than surprising.
Now
that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have struck a nerve, the lib/dem/soc/commies
are screaming and writhing in pain, demanding that we all join hands and start
singing Kum-Bay-Yah, returning to a kinder, gentler campaign. The president is
asking that all 527 committees cease and desist, while Kerry only seems to be
concerned about the ones sticking the pins in their Lurch voodoo dolls.
To
which I say, Tough! The lib/dem/soc/commies have 527s that have libeled and slandered
the president, the vice P\president, and the nation as a whole. The Swift Boat
Veterans have spoken the truth, at a fraction of the cost. If anything, I believe
they should press on with their ads. They should be emboldened by the power of
their candor, and continue to speak out as their conscience directs them.
For
those of you who wish to help the ''Swift Boat Veterans For Truth'' continue their
campaign, you can donate to their committee at: https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets
About the Writer: Doc Farmer is a writer and humorist who is also
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but now resides in Indiana.
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NewsMax
Uncovers Kerry's Ties to Anti-Bush Groups
Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com Tuesday,
Aug. 24, 2004 - http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/23/153719.shtml
"Even as Sen. John Kerry and his cheerleaders in Big Media try to
associate President Bush with the modestly funded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,
they remain silent about the links Kerry and the Democrat party have to multimillion-dollar
Bush-hating groups. But they cannot keep concealing these ties, because NewsMax
has uncovered multiple examples."
