Last stand for Bush's 'stay the course' crowd?

[marmar]

From MediaTransparency.org:


Bill Berkowitz
August 23, 2007

Last stand for Bush's 'stay the course' crowd?


Freedom's Watch, a new group of former ambassadors and Bush pitchmen are targeting dozens of congressional representatives with $15 million worth of pro-war radio and television advertisements
It's been a long time since the halcyon days of the 1980s when religious and secular right wing organizations would round up the troops, create a letterhead group, drop a boatload of direct mail fundraising letters, and successfully promote the domestic and foreign policy agenda of President Ronald Reagan. Before, and during the early months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, conservatives initiated a similar spate of activities aimed at organizing support for the invasion. Predicting immediate success, these groups not only promulgated their vision of a Middle East dominated by the U.S., they also demonized any and all opponents of the invasion.

Now, with the stench of a lame duck president permeating the White House, Freedom's Watch, a new group of Bush administration former ambassadors and high-powered donors, has launched a multi-million dollar campaign to win back the public's support for the war on Iraq. Is this the 'stay the course' crowd's last stand?

According to its website, Freedom's Watch, a 501 (c) (4) nonprofit corporation, is "dedicated to fighting to protect the ideals and issues that keep America strong and prosperous." It is "rallying together" to:

* "Bring the focus back to the real threats to our nation."

* "Fight back against the policies that are corrupting America's ability to protect our citizens, our economy, and our way of life."

* "Reprioritize our legislative agenda to protect America's core values."

Despite Andrew Card's famous dictum about not introducing a marketing campaign in the dog days of August, Freedom Watch is up against the wall. In a press release issued by the group on August 22, it announced the "launch a nationwide grassroots campaign aimed at ensuring Congress continues to fully fund the troops with the ultimate goal of victory in the War on Terror." It claimed that it will spend some $15 million on radio and television advertisements from now through mid-September, the time Gen. David Petraeus delivers his progress report on the situation in Iraq.

"The mission of Freedom's Watch is to ensure a strong national defense and a powerful effort to confront and defeat global terror, especially in Iraq," said Bradley A. Blakeman, the group's president. "Those who want to quit while victory is possible have dominated the public debate about terror and Iraq since the 2004 election. Freedom's Watch is going to change all that." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=207

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. WHO IS FOOTING THE BILL? that is what I want to know.

Bush &Co alsready stole millions for illegal propaganda earlier on, and if they are using tax payer dollars for this, boy, I can only imagine how congress will react. Probably Nancy and Harry will agree to consider a meeting to discuss the creation of a panel to determine whether they should create a select committee to investigate the cost of third class mail from Hawaii.

[Chipper Chat]

4. And Harry and Nancy are meeting in the"Daschle-Gephart Room"

somewhere in the basement of the Capitol - the room where all the dry Dem powder is stored.
Sigh.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I must be missing something

Where is the part where they call for a return of the draft and where they urge all bush supporters to get on down to the Army Recruiting Station?

This organization should scare the crap out of the republican party. They want to:

- focus on the real threats to America. That would be the gop with a major supporting nod to radical christian clerics.
- Fight back against policies threatening our way of life. That would be gop policies
- Protect America's Core Values. The biggest threat to our core values is the republican party and radical christian clerics.

This is some terrible news for the republicans.

[MADem]

3. One of my relatives is sitting here watching CNN, and they're showing an EXCORIATING segment

on how fucked up Iraq is. There's no good news in it, at all. Even the limp "other side of the story" with US government spokespeople is coming across as lame as all get out.

It's ghastly, and hopeless.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Are they in their last throes? Again? lol!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. throws, end of the 4th quarter,

but not to worry, just like REx Grossman with the pressure on, the Harry and Nancy Show will fold like an origami bird.

[catmandu57]

7. 15 million is a drop in the bucket

I don't think 15 mil is going to go very far, and I think this is going to blow up in their faces.
Now that the chimpenfuhrer has brought the ghost of Vietnam into things, everybody will see the similarity of the quagmires. They're fucked and grasping at straws.