Miller's attack on Kerry could hurt Bush

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Registered: 07-20-2003
Miller's attack on Kerry could hurt Bush
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Sat, 09-04-2004 - 6:31pm
McCain: Miller's attack on Kerry could hurt Bush

NEW YORK -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has pushed for more civility in this year's presidential race, is warning that the biting, angry attack on Sen. John Kerry by a fellow Democrat at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night might harm President Bush's efforts to woo swing voters.

McCain said the keynote address by Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) could prove as controversial as a speech by Patrick Buchanan at the 1992 GOP convention in Houston.

"I think it backfires," McCain said of Miller's rhetorical assault on Kerry. He added that it "makes Buchanan's speech look milquetoast."

McCain made his comments to reporters at a party he held after the convention's Wednesday session ended.

Buchanan's speech, in which he declared a "culture war" was under way in America, was thought by many Republicans to have hurt the re-election bid of Bush's father, then-President George H.W. Bush. The elder Bush lost the November vote to Democrat Bill Clinton.

Miller's keynote address was laced with harsh criticism of Kerry's legislative record on military issues. Marshall Wittmann, McCain's spokesman, said the senator favors a less divisive approach to political debate.

"This is not his style," Wittmann said. "He would prefer to see Democrats not as our enemies, but rather as Americans who have good intentions but policy differences" with Republicans.

McCain has campaigned for the younger Bush's re-election and continues that effort in coming days, appearing on the president's behalf in New Mexico and Wisconsin.

But he also has denounced ads by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth criticizing Kerry's military service in Vietnam and his protests against that war. McCain has urged the White House to condemn the ads.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0409030259sep03,1,1523380.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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Registered: 08-07-2004
Sat, 09-04-2004 - 11:46pm
Oh I think some people do. People who have integrity for example.

< Have you ever introduced a speaker? You just read what's written there. Nobody fact checks before introducing someone.>

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Sat, 09-04-2004 - 11:48pm
yeah, right.
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Registered: 09-02-2004
Sat, 09-04-2004 - 11:54pm
speech, introduction ,words where comming out of his mouth that he wrote. that he stood behind!
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Sat, 09-04-2004 - 11:55pm
yeah, yeah, yeah..
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Registered: 03-24-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 11:09am
So because he didn't write what he spoke, he should not be held accountable for his words? On one hand we have a man who just recites what is given to him, or we have a man who doesn't believe what he speaks. If you ask me neither one is very flattering. I have spoken in public many times, and every time I wrote everything I spoke. I did not leave it up to someone else, because it was my reputation at stake not theirs. To feel that republicans are proud of this man is something to laugh at.
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Registered: 03-24-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 11:15am
Good point! You have to wonder, because he knew where he was going and basically what was going to be said. If he didn't agree with introducing Kerry, don't you think he would have just stayed home or refused to speak something in which he didn't believe in? No one was holding a gun to his head, forcing him to say anything. The republicans can keep him, he seems to fit well within the sneaky qualities required in their party lately.
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Registered: 06-17-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 11:39am

He also wasn't living in a post 911 world,

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 11:50am
Agree.
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 11:52am
He had nothing against Kerry at that time. It wasn't until he came to the Senate that he saw how Democrats play politics with our national security.
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Registered: 04-16-2004
Sun, 09-05-2004 - 2:42pm
The article is slightly incorrect.

McCain only denounced those ads that attack Kerry's service, not what he did after returning from Vietnam, in fact, McCain said that his actions after returning are fair game.