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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:00 AM
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bu$hit already humping the Reagan leg(acy) for political gain
who's surprised? Anyone?

Bush already using Reagan's death to campaign

I just got an email from the Bush campaign, ostensibly to "mourn" Ronald Reagan, but interestingly the email asks me to visit the Bush campaign Web site and to tell all my friends to do the same. The Bush-Cheney 2004 home page has now been made into one BIG Reagan memorial page, with a convenient link to visit the rest of the campaign site.

I have to give the Bushies credit. As Kerry has said he's taking the week off of campaigning, this is a cute way to get their Web traffic up while at the same time not appearing to "campaign." And before anyone defends the Bushies, the bottom line is that they are of course within their rights to send a message mourning Reagan, but any special section they put up on their campaign Web site is PER SE campaign related. There are a lot of sites out there honoring Ronald Reagan - they could have sent them to any non-partisan site. Instead, the Bush campaign has made their home page into one big Ronald Reagan fest as a cheap opportunity to increase their own Web traffic, thus making Reagan's death a part of their presidential campaign. And that stinks.

Here's the email I got from the Bush campaign about the site:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_06_06_americablog_archive.html#108662327869132394

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Actually - they started yesterday with the leg(acy) humping:

WASHINGTON, June 6 — From the shores of Normandy to President Bush's campaign offices outside Washington, Mr. Bush and his political advisers embraced the legacy of Ronald Reagan on Sunday, suggesting that even in death, Mr. Reagan had one more campaign in him — this one at the side of Mr. Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/politics/campaign/07REPU.html
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:05 AM
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1. With any luck

Nancy will let it be known that she doesnt appreciate this usurpation of her husbands name and legacy.

Her emnity for the Bushes may yet come home to roost.

Never underestimate Karl and his mafia's inclination to overreach.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:07 AM
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2. exploiting the dead.....mm--mmm-mm
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:17 AM
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3. hahaa! I love the comic...
...passing it on now...thanks mopaul!
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 07:42 AM
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4. this administration
has no sense of decency, but it doesn't bother me so much anymore cuz I know, without a doubt, that at some point this week he will put his foot in his mouth and let something "slip" and his true feelings about reagan will come out and everyone will have to scramble to make things okay for georgie.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-08-04 10:10 AM
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5. i just wonder...
...if Nancy is going to have something to say about all of GeeDuhbya's leg(acy) humping...I hear she isn't nutz about the bu$hKlan to start with...
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