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BUSH BEAT

I’m not Teresa tour

The Washington Post reports on how Luara Bush and Tersa Heinz Kerry are "180 degrees apart":

Teresa, Teresa, Teresa.

"It was the last question I got from the St. Paul reporter at the last event," Mrs. Bush says. She got Teresa questions from reporters in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan on Monday, and in Wisconsin and Minnesota Tuesday. And there's still Iowa left to go before Mrs. Bush wraps up her two-day tour of scripted sweetness and devotion to George W. Bush -- in other words, her "I'm Not Teresa Tour."

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Happy (campaign) trails!

As if John Kerry didn’t already have enough campaign trail troubles... now he and the missus have been caught having a shouting match which ended in separate hotel rooms for the night. Here’s an excerpt from DRUDGE :

Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night -- a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms!

A well-placed law enforcement source tells DRUDGE how Kerry and Teresa Heinz moved to separate suites at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel.

Yeah, yeah... but did she tell him to 'shove it'???

Kerry’s swift boat crew member calls him a liar

Nationally syndicated radio show host Hugh Hewitt interviewed Vietnam veteran Steve Gardner today. Gardner was a crew member of John Kerry’s swift boat. Here is the transcript of the interview, where Gardner says Kerry is lying about going into Cambodia... and about taking a CIA operative into Cambodia:

Interview from 8-10-4 edition of the Hugh Hewitt Radio program.

HH: I interviewed Steve Gardner today. He served two tours in Vietnam, including two months and two weeks of John Kerry's swift boat service--on John Kerry's swift boat-- from November 1968 through January 1969:

HH: Mr. Gardner, welcome to the Hugh Hewittt Show, it is an honor to talk to you.

SG: I am glad to be here Hugh.

HH: Thanks for your service.

SG: Thank you again, I really appreciate you're allowing me to come aboard.

HH: Now let me start with some basics. I said you served two tours in Vietnam. Can you tell me what years those were?

SG: 1966 to 1967 and then in 1968 and 1969, when I served with Kerry.

HH: What months did you serve with Senator Kerry?

SG: November through January. Here's what I did. I served two months and two weeks of his four month, 12 day tour.

HH: Alright. Why did you leave off in January. What happened in January?

SG: That was my rotation time.

HH: OK. When you were on the boat, did you ever go into Cambodian waters?

SG: Absolutely not. That was a physical impossibility to go inside Cambodian waters.

HH; Why?

SG: They had four or five, at all times, boats, plus they had it wired with wire, they had concrete pylons down so that thee only time they could get through it was at high tide, and that was just so the sampans and the people that trafficked back and forth could get through.

HH: Now you served with him on Christmas Eve 1968, correct?

SG: That is correct.

HH: What did you do on Christmas Eve 1968?

SG: Well, I damn sure wasn't in Cambodia, I'll tell you that.

HH: (Laughter) Do you remember?

SG: We were basically just down in the lower part of the Sa Dec. just patrolling.

HH: All right. Were you looking for Bob Hope that night?

SG: No, (laughter) this was just how bad this guy is. People get a whiff of this and get a hold of it. Because you are just getting the edge of what drives John Kerry.

HH: What is that Steve Gardner?

SG: He is an opportunist, number one. But he is a self-seeking opportunist who used the laws that were designed to help the honest men who were over there in Vietnam who had gotten wounded three times to get them back out of it. He knew the rules well, and he used that to get out of there early.

HH: Last night on the Daily Show on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, the host, said this about the book that is coming about by John O'Neill: There are powerful indictments, or rather it would be had any of those guys served on Kerry's boat,. By saying 'with him' they mean they were in Vietnam at the same time. Kind of the same way Snoopy served with the Red Baron. How do you respond to that?

SG: Well, on any movement we would do, we are talking four or five boats going in on an engagement, we were always within 50 or 75 yards of each other. And to be perfectly honest about it, if you were to look at an overview, if your were looking for an overview of a situation, you were better off being on another boat and looking at the rest of the other boats.

HH: OK, well put. Now, Steve Gardner, John Kerry has also been discovered to have been telling a story that he took a CIA man at least one CIA man into Cambodia and that he kept his hat. When you were on the boat with John Kerry, for your two months and two weeks of the tour that he served, did you ever have a CIA man on board?

SG: Number one, no.

HH: Did you ever take anyone to Cambodia and drop them off?

SG: Categorically no.

HH: Did you get near Cambodia and drop anybody off?

SG: The closest we can get to Cambodia, and that's a long swim, is 50 miles.

HH: Alright. Let me ask you about other people on the boat. Could John Kerry have just misunderstood someone on the boat was CIA when it wasn't CIA? Did you ever have any strangers on the boat?

SG: Nope. We always would have an interpreter, or something like that with us, or we would take others and take them in to areas in the Mekong Delta where they would be doing surveillance, but never did we have anybody that we would take close or could take close to Cambodia.

HH: Is it possible that you would drop them off a few miles away from Cambodia and they would walk in?''

SG: Fifty miles away is a long walk, let me tell you.

HH: If such a mission had been undertaken, would it have been undertaken by a swift boat?

SG: Nope.

HH: What kind of boat would it have been undertaken by?

SG: If something was going to be done, it would have had to have been done by a PBR.

HH: What's a PBR?

SG: That's one of the smaller boats that they used in Vietnam, that were water driven motors.

HH: When you read these stories about John Kerry and his CIA agents, how do you react? Does he believe it himself, do you think?

SG: No. It is laughable. John Kerry, number one, we were never, we were never made privy to anything. Even if that were so, even if there was some reason to believe that that had transpired, we would not have been made privy to that.

HH: You mean that John Kerry wouldn't have known who was on the boat?

SG: Number one, no. That would have been such a top secret operation, and a positioning, that that guy would have killed himself before he told anybody he was going to Cambodia. It didn't happen. Like I said, to get into Cambodia, you were over 50 miles away from the border.

HH: Is that the closest you think you came, 50 miles?

SG: I know it is, categorically. You couldn't go any farther.

HH: Could it have happened once you left the boat?

SG: No, you still couldn't get through that same creek.

HH: Will any of the guys who have endorsed John Kerry, who served on the boat with you, will they back him up on the CIA agent story, or the Christmas Eve story?

HH: Well they can't now.

HH; Why?

SG: Well they all know that that didn't transpire. John Kerry has already said that from what I understand.

HH: What he said, eh, what his staff has been saying is that they think he said he was close to Cambodia, but not in it, but in 1986 he stood on the floor of the Senate and said he was in Cambodia.

SG: That's correct, and that's an absolute categorical lie.

Author apologizes

Jerry Corsi, one of the authors of "Unfit for Command, apologized for the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, saying they were meant as a joke and he never intended to offend anyone.

Unfit for Command" accuses the Sen. John Kerry of lying about his wartime record and betraying comrades by returning from Vietnam and alleging widespread atrocities by U.S. troops.

In a chat room entry last year on FreeRepublic.com, Corsi wrote: "Islam is a peaceful religion — just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed."

He also wrote, "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it."

Corsi, who described himself as a "devout Catholic," said the comments are being taken out of context. "I considered them a joke," said Corsi.

"I don't stand by any of those comments and I apologize if they offended anybody," Corsi said.

Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton said, "President Bush should immediately condemn this sleazy book written by a virulent anti-Catholic bigot. It says something about the smear campaign against John Kerry that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger."

Reform Party over?

The treasurer of the national Reform Party, which backs independent Ralph Nader for president, has told federal election officials that the party has only $18.18 in the bank and should be terminated. However, it seems that the rest of the party may not agree.

William D. Chapman Sr., said in a telephone interview yesterday that he sent the Federal Election Commission (FEC) a "request for termination based on guidelines the FEC had established for the Reform Party."

Reform Party Chairman Shawn O'Hara accused Mr. Chapman of leading a "minor coup."

"We are in the process of rebuilding and raising money," Mr. O'Hara said.

Buying Nevada’s votes

Sen. John Kerry placed in danger 20 percent of America’s energy supply in a bid for Nevada’s electoral votes. The nation’s nuclear energy program depends on finding a safe place to store and secure spent nuclear rods used in the production of electricity. The site selected is Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

"Yucca Mountain to me is a symbol of the recklessness and the arrogance for which they are willing to proceed with respect to the safety issues and concerns of the American people," Kerry said on the 12th day of his post-convention coast-to-coast swing through battleground country. "When John Kerry is president, there will be no nuclear waste at Yucca," said Kerry.

Kerry is trying to duplicate Bill Clinton’s results. Clinton became an enthusiastic opponent of the Yucca site and carried the state in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections.

Sen. John Edwards has supported a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain during his first term in office but now opposes it.

Drug wars

Sen. John Kerry announced that his campaign will take its efforts to senior citizen meeting places. There the campaign will explain how President Bush is the reason drug prices are rising and discredit the recent AARP endorsed drug bill. The newly passed prescription drug bill is the largest expansion of welfare since President Lyndon Johnson’s promotion of Medicare.

"Seniors are cutting their pills in half, and we're told the best we can do for them is a Medicare bill that's riddled with waste and handouts to drug companies. We can do better," Kerry said.

Seniors can realize substantial savings from the prescription drug cards available now and the full Medicare benefit, which starts in 2006.

Kerry wants to change the law to give the Health and Human Services Department power to negotiate bulk discounts for seniors, a power that Congress forbade when it wrote the program. Kerry also wants seniors to be allowed to purchase lower-cost drugs from Canada.

The American pharmaceutical industry currently provides for the bulk of all new breakthroughs in new prescription drugs in the world. It is suggested that this will not continue if Kerry gets his way.

Where the gold is

The LA Times reports that Kerry is finding gold in California:

Altogether, Kerry, liberal groups and the Democratic National Committee have raised $47.5 million in California, compared with $31.9 million for Bush and the Republican National Committee.

"They're reaching into their pocketbooks. They're doing it again and again. I've never seen anything like it," said Michael Thorsnes, a San Diego trial attorney who had raised $2.6 million for the Kerry campaign.