Kerry victim of Reflexive Compulsive Pandering Disorder [RCPD]
only known cures; hermitism, lobotomy, duck tapeEx-Senator John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes.
...primary among them, having Algore speak for you? What else ya gonna do, Johnny Man-'o-the-Pee-Pole?
Six so-called "SWAT teams" of lawyers and political operatives will be situated around the country with fueled-up jets awaiting Kerry's orders to speed to a battleground state. The teams have been told to be ready to fly on the evening of the election to begin mounting legal and political fights. Every battleground state will have a SWAT team within an hour of its borders.
Feel safer now?
"Right now, we have 10,000 lawyers out in the battleground states on Election Day, and that number is growing by the day," said [a staffer] ...The Kerry campaign has
recount office space in every battleground state, with plans so detailed they include the number of staplers and coffee machines needed to mount legal challenges.
Not being one to fall to the Seven P's of the FBI* -- other than that pesky lack-of-content issue. Now this is the part that has me puzzled:
While the lawyers litigate, political operatives will try to shape public perception. Their goal would be to persuade voters that Kerry has the best claim to the presidency and that Republicans are trying to steal it.
uhm... whatinhell do they want with voters at a time like that?!? The voters have already shot their wad by, well... voting. Whadda they want us to vote again?!? Ain't 10 or 12 times enough for these greedy bastards? Why doncha just waltz down to that big house on Pennsylvania Avenue, put yer size 12 Manolos up on the desk and order up a mess of caviar toast?!? Hell -- call up yer pal Arafat and have Hamas over for dindin. Why screw around with the Dog and Silky Pony show, anyway?? Coup, man, coup! Still, a fatalistic note creeps in:
On Election Day, [Michael Whouley, a Kerry confidant (and recycled Gore-isto)] will head the so-called "boiler room," probably in Washington, that tracks vote counts and ensures Kerry doesn't concede too soon.
[can't be too soon for me.] Sorry Johnny Judgment -- "act as if" only works in therapy; not in politics. Evil Putz. . *Poor Prior Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance
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