| MrBubbles said: the fact that they werent his fault isnt beside the point. you tried to make him look like an incompetent pilot when that wasnt the case at all. he isnt responsible for mechanical failures. and the swiftboat commercial wasnt orchestrated by the republican party. |
Even though the lawyer representing the Swift Boat Veterans was the same one who represented the Bush campaign, Benjamin Ginsberg. He resigned after this connection was revealed.
Kenneth Cordier, a man who served on a veterans' advisory committee for the Bush campaign APPEARED in one of the commercials. He distanced himself from the campaign once this was revealed as well.
One of the initial financial supporters of the group was a close friend of Karl Rove's, Bush's right-hand man.
This kind of politics is quintessential Karl Rove, letting someone else do your dirty work. That's how he got Bush elected as governor in Texas, by spreading rumors that Ann Richards was employing lesbians and that she might be a lesbian herself.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
