A reminder: THE GOP IS STIRRING THE POT

[thinkahead]

They want discord in the party. If you are going to attack one of the candidates, be sure the information you are using is CORRECT, or else you're just helping Bush get re-selected.

Thats it :)

Goodnight

Edit to change "re-elected" to "re-selected". OK, I feel better.

[Dr Fate]

1. They rely on others to attack Dems on issues that they cant....

..for example- Bush could never bring up some ones military record without opening up atacks on his lack of service- so Rove relies on DEM infighting for this- hoping Clark or Kerry supporters will bring this up instead...

On the flipside of that- Rove also relies non Bush people to accuse DEM candidates of being "pro war"...

As a matter of strategy, we should keep DEM infighting to a bare minimum until after we defeat Bush- then we can do it from a safer position of power...

[w4rma]

2. ABC's The Note: RNC's/Rove's strategy for interfering in the Dem primary

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At some point, somebody should take all the e-mailed press releases from the crackerjack research team at the Republican National Committee attacking the Democratic presidential candidates, print them out, and publish them in a bound, leatherette hard copy edition.

Like a fine Julie Teer quote LINK, or a “Breck Girl” anonymous missile from a “Bush adviser,” these releases are intended to make mischief in the Democratic nomination fight — destabilize things as much as they can, dragging the process out as long as possible, trying to produce as weak a Democratic nominee as they can in the end, and basically playing bad cop, so the president can stay above the fray until the last possible moment.

These releases, read in their totality, are brilliant, but they can also cause some cognitive dissonance, because they do hit on some contradictory themes (sometimes, for example, attacking a candidate for being too liberal, but, sometimes, attacking someone for being to conservative).

The main themes are that one or more of the Democratic candidates are:

1. missing too many votes
2. changing their positions
3. itching to raise your taxes
4. inconsistent
5. attacking each other
6. too negative about President Bush (Note the irony!)
7. wimpy, effeminate, and crass
8. obstructionist
9. unconcerned with homeland security
10. borderline communist (ok: we are — pretty much — kidding about that one)

The RNC attacking the Democratic candidates is dog-bites-man, except, pace Karl Rove, this is arguably the most organized operation of this type in the modern era (You should see their tape library!!!).
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote_July14.html