Okay. I have this email here from a Freeper-type. It's a flash-slide show.

[w4rma]

I'd like to get a list of some of the most audatious Bush family assets and send back an email to the Freeper-type to counter her.

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/itsgoodtobejfk.htm

The freeper-types are trying to paint Kerry as someone too wealthy to be in touch with the rest of us. But, imho, the easiest counter is just to show that Bush has huge (if not huger) assets of his own and was brought up in a very wealthy family, also.

I'm not really looking for economic policy points: Although if you have some that might appeal to freeper-types please post them, also. Like the overtime pay thing is a good example of one that even freepers can't stand Bush's position on.

Also, if you can find pictures of Bush homes or cars or jets or parties or whatever, that would be fantastic.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. How bout just pointing them to F9/11?

That shows how much rich the Bush family is.

[w4rma]

5. I just want a quick email to send back to them with information in it.

I'm not going to convince this freeper-type by brushing her off and telling her to "go see the F9.11 movie and everything will be clear". I want to give her some stuff, now, to shake her faith.

[lukasahero]

6. Use the links in posts below

Edwards and Kerry in the $300,000+ range, Cheney over $1,000,000, shrubby near $800,000. Who's rich?

[w4rma]

10. Bush owns that Ranch in Texas that he bought in 2000 or so.

That's worth a few million.

I'm positive he has another home. Where did he live before the pig farm?

[msturgis524]

2. I've seen this before

Could somebody explain to me why this is supposed to be damning.

[Kilroy003]

8. For real! It's actually to John Kerry's credit that he's a Dem.

He could easily be a fat-cat Republican and tell the rest of us to eat shit. Who the hell are these people?

BTW. That $9 Million joint in Mass looks like crap. I'd sell it if I were the Heinz Kerry's.

[w4rma]

9. That is a picture of the Heinz corporate HQ. It's not a home. (nt)

[Infomaniac]

3. Get a gander at Shrub and Crashcart's Tax Returns

Both of them are doing pretty well for themselves:

http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/thpwebsite.nsf/Web/PresidentialTaxReturns?OpenDocument

[w4rma]

7. That's good info, but I'm looking for assets, not income.

Bush's income is what you would expect for a someone getting paid the presidential salary.

All the numbers are only in the hundreds of thousands.

[ieoeja]

11. $400,000 interest?

You don't make over $400K in interest without a couple mil in the bank.

[w4rma]

12. Very good point. I missed that. (nt)

[Infomaniac]

4. Get a gander at Shrub and Crashcart's Tax Returns

Both of them are doing pretty well for themselves:

http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/thpwebsite.nsf/Web/PresidentialTaxReturns?OpenDocument

[Captain Lance Bass]

13. And Bush came from the ghetto?

WTF?

[zinsky]

14. Use Political Ju-Jitsu On Them!

Ask "Why are you conservatives always engaging in class warfare?" or "Why do you hate wealthy people so much?"

They are trying to take a line of attack that liberals often take against the GOP - turn it against them! You would think that Kerry is a Republican's dream - wealthy, aristocratic, cultured. Instead, they hate him and villify him for his wealth, ignoring the utter hypocrisy of their position.

After all, the GOP chirps a lot about morality, when they hated the most moral man to ever be president - Jimmy Carter.

The lesson is that they hate for the sake of hate, which is one definition of evil!

[w4rma]

15. True. But some pictures and apprasals of some of Bush's assets

would help, also.