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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:08 PM
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New SUPER rich group forms...and they ain't Democrat friendly...
Source: NY Times

Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.
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One benefactor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the group was hoping to raise as much as $200 million by November 2008. Raising big money “will be easy,” the benefactor said, adding that several of the founders each wrote a check for $1 million. Mr. Blakeman would not confirm or deny whether any donor gave $1 million, or more, to the organization.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.h...
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Do you maybe get an inkling now what you are REALLY up against? Our piddling 20-$30 millions to the Democratic candidates would hardly be noticed as missing in these guys petty cash drawer.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:09 PM
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1. Yeah.. But they're selling rancid meat and curdled milk.
It doesn't matter how much money they have. They have no product.
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itsrobert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:16 PM
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2. Have you looked in people's closets, basements, and garages lately?
Americas will buy shit off a monkey's penis if it's advertised right.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:44 PM
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11. They PREFER to be sold
and will walk right by a quality product and beg to be allowed the privilege to pay for a taste of that exotic sienna delicacy.
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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:16 PM
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3. lets see now. you say that...
"...they have no product." Yet, this board and almost all others are literally filled with the acronym MSM, always derogatory and always blaming them for undue influence on the masses. We decry Rupert Murdoch and FOX. None of these are accessible without monies, lots, and lots, and lots of monies. They DON'T need any stinking product! All they need to control ol' Floyd and Martha out their in 'Voter Land' is lots of money. See now?

We have simply GOT to get the message to Floyd and Martha by some other means, and remember Floyd and Martha if they have a computer at all it is for emailing Zeb, their boy and Lurleen who is off to college zomewhere in Iowa.

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Clovis Sangrail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:18 PM
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4. hmmm....
Paris Hilton
Head On
George Bush
'N Sync


... all things with no "there" there...
yet they've all sold exceptionally well in the US


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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:19 PM
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5. Lets see can we say 'Swiftboat'?
Bob Perry of Houston pretty much finished John Kerry with nothing but a big lie and BIG bucks.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:35 PM
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8. Worked in 2004, hopefully America's attention span isn't too short for it to happen again
Bill Clinton was spot on when he said "Democrats win when people think". Republicans play to peoples' emotions and Democrats play to their logic. However, until Democrats learn how to play to emotions while still rallying certain segments of their base with logic, we do need to be concerned about the possibility that people will act irrationally.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:26 PM
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6. Isn't it nice that their tax reductions let them afford this stuff?
God forbid that they actually PAY for the deep hole of debt they've dug for this nation. These are the worst of the worst.

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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:29 PM
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7. Try this LINK:
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:37 PM
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10. Did the Bible get it wrong?
"The meek shall inherit the earth". Maybe the rich will buy it, instead?
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 05:28 PM
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12. "...the rest of us shall escape to the stars." nt
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-29-07 04:36 PM
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9. This looks like a tax exemption scam to funnel money to the media.
They should be closely monitored for criminal activity!
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