Wednesday, January 26, 2005
They're Losing This One, Folks
From the Guardian:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party is following up record fund raising for President Bush's re-election effort by asking donors to finance its efforts to get Bush's message ``past the liberal media filter'' to the public. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sent a fund-raising e-mail Wednesday telling supporters donations are needed to help Bush advance his second-term agenda. ``The president has great goals for our country: a growing economy, strong homeland and national defense, tort and Social Security reform and affordable health care. But we need your help to get the president's message past the liberal media filter and directly to the American people,'' wrote Mehlman, Bush's 2004 campaign manager. Mehlman asked donors to give $25 or more."Liberal media filter", Ken? Geez Louise, is that the best you can do? I guess it really is as Eric Alterman said: "Liberal" is now just a synonym for "not nuts". Because otherwise, I can't see how anyone would call Virgil Goode a liberal. They must not be getting much bling from their usual corporate-donor suspects, if they have to go to their voting base. And they weren't expecting the Democrats and the bloggers and groups like AARP to hit the ground running so soon after the election. What's more, groups like There Is No Crisis are using inexpensive ways to get out the truth and it imprinted in the public mind before the GOP can even line up all its legislators. We not only can win this one, folks -- we've already got 'em on the run. Just keep up the pressure. Especially on the congresscritters. (Remind them than Ken Mehlman won't have time to really mobilize the Freepers and White Citizens' Council types to go after them, because he's going to be very busy soon trying to keep China's central banks from dumping all those dollars it bought to help prop up Bush's riotous borrow-and-spend policies.)
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