Kerry's ex-manager spurs anti-Bush effort

[Justice]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/07/26/kerrys_ex_manager_spurs_anti_bush_effort_1090828059/

Jordan and his staff, known as the Thunder Road Group, consult with three of the major 527s: America Coming Together, The Media Fund, and America Votes.

Through June 30, the three had spent about $55 million on their various missions. America Coming Together, with about 300 employees and 1,400 paid canvassers, is building an Election Day organization in 17 states and intends to spend $110 million by Election Day. The Media Fund thus far has spent $27 million on television ads, mostly attacking Bush in those key states. America Votes is an umbrella group of 33 liberal, labor, and issues organizations that is mobilizing voters for the fall.

Other Democratic groups, notably the AFL-CIO and MoveOn.org, have also helped prop up Kerry, prompting Republicans to argue that they were illegally coordinating their activities with the Kerry campaign.

Among 527s, the action tilts heavily to the Democratic side. In its most recent update, Noble's watchdog group reports that "Democratic/liberal" 527 groups and labor unions had raised $179 million, compared to $12.7 million by 527s identified as "Republican/conservative."

[leftistagitator]

1. Damn, they raised 180 million...

Kerry's raised another 180 million, plus 75 mil in matching funds? Our war chest is over 400 million dollars? Can we acually outspend Bush? I wonder how much they have on hand...

[tooie]

6. example

of good grass-roots efforts....

[xchrom]

2. liberals could get tougher yet --

but this is how you play the game.
take no prisoners and make no apologies.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Bingo. No mercy asked, no mercy given.

[cmd]

4. Liberals have to get tougher yet

Money is not every thing. Every one of us has to volunteer to do whatever we can to remove this administration. If there is no group near you, go to Kerry's website and volunteer to have a house party, or contact others on line. Get a bumbersticker on your car and wear a Kerry pin. When signs come out, get one for your yard. Write letters to editors. Talk to friends and neighbors.
We can't rest until we win.

[calimary]

12. Abso-cheneying-lutely. Let the games begin.

The way YOU suggest, coalminersdaughter, is the way WE can ALL play.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Oh, no! They're finding examples of Bush's "flip-flopping"

and they're going to make him eat them! It will be an absolute DELIGHT to see Democrats giving them back just what we've been absorbing the last god knows how many years.

Al Gore, called a major "flip-flopper." Holy smokes. Now Kerry. Well, these guys are going to throw _Bush onto the flip-flop pile. From the article:

Moving on, Jordan cites an Associated Press story. "Bush may cave on drug reimportation," he said, referring to the president reconsidering his opposition to allowing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. "He's doing the right thing, but let's kick the crap out of him for the reasons he's doing it. . . . Let's get all his past quotes about how risky it would be, put it all in one document. . . . Let's get ahead of the politics on this."

One of Jordan's young staffers reports that Bush, in an Iowa speech, has contradicted an earlier description of himself as a war president and now wants to be a "peace president."

"That doesn't pass the laugh test," the staffer says. Let's put something out on that, Jordan nods.

And on it goes, through a checklist of stories and issues. "Push back" on Republican spin here; highlight stories that are critical of the Bush administration there. Lesmerises, whom Jordan later describes as a "walking encyclopedia," suggests ideas for research. They agree they should assemble background information on all of the Bush surrogates who will be appearing in Boston this week.
(snip/...)

Way to go! Hey HEY! News worth the wait!

[loudsue]

7. I'm sure glad SOMEBODY'S doing this... the Kerry campaign speakers

are NOT allowed to slam bush AT ALL! All they are allowed to do in their 3-minute speeches is to say what Kerry/Edwards WILL do...

That, IMHO, fails to properly educate the viewers on the "real" WHY we should be afraid of another bush term.

Kerry's campaign (with the fingerprints of the DLC conservatives all over it), is GIVING BUSH A FREE PASS in all their speeches, for fear of "sounding at all negative" for the 5% of projected swing voters.

So the other 95% can just fall asleep, ey?

I'm NOT in favor of a huge bush bashing, negative campaign. I LIKE a positive campaign!! But there are times certain well-placed, high profile speakers should be allowed to call a spade 'a spade' to fire up those who really ARE angry, and let the viewers witness that there are a huge number of us that KNOW bush is a dangerous, lying sumbitch.

:kick::kick::kick:

[JNelson6563]

8. Ann Richards can do "poor George" again

with a more-out-of-sorrow-than-in-anger demeanor. ;-)


Julie

[meow2u3]

9. Richards just has to modify the "silver spoon" comment

as in "He was born with a silver spoon up his nose", since Papa was born with a silver foot in his mouth :evilgrin:

[TheDebbieDee]

10. I don't think Ann Richards can or should go there........

with the "spoon up his nose" reference. Although it's been several years ago, Ann Richards completed a substance-abuse program for an addiction to prescription drugs and alcohol.

But she's a smart lady - I'm sure she'll come up with a remark that's even better.

[AspenRose]

13. Here's your Ann Richards "zinger"

(granted, it's from the McPaper, aka USA Today, but still...)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-07-25-mass-liberal_x.htm

Ann Richards, the former Texas governor who lost her re-election bid to George W. Bush in 1994, demonstrated how to turn one of those images into a zinger. "This is the town of Paul Revere," she drawled at a fundraising lunch here this month. "Remember 'one if by land, two if by sea'? He had better information for the American people than this White House."

[Massacure]

11. Bush well get bashed during the convention. Al Gore and Ted Kennedy will.

Won't they?