Reagan: It's time to strike back

DodgeGlobe.com ^ | January 30, 2004 | By Michael Reagan

[11th_VA]

Anyone listening at the GOP headquarters??? And don't give me any more NEA funding crap ...

[bolobaby]

What??? And lose our longstanding republican nice-guy "advantage?" Are you crazy?

/sarcasm

[Sonny M]

He's right. Back in 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the Democrats started very early in the campaign to spend a lot of money to derail any Republican's chance of winning. It was the smart thing to do and it worked.

That was a Dick Morris idea back then, Dick Morris now is saying that since the circumstances are different and the situation is different, he would not recomend using the same strategy. Its far better for Bush to simply fundraise, and wait untill the summer, then start spending his war chest.

Personally, I think Bush should start buying ad time from right before the Dem convention, and then saturate the dem convention with his own ads touting his leadership, and keep going all the way through, while making sure he has a strong get out to vote network in place and, he should starting ASAP start campaigning or at least giving speeches (and raising money) in swing states where the dems primaries are not at, so as not to have share local media time with them.

[Pitchfork]

Interesting article but this quote undermines the writer's credibility:
"Vote for the Democrats and the economy will turn sour. They are anti-business which is where the 401K' s of millions of middle class Americans are invested. But the Democrats attack the very source of our 401K retirement funds ­ business"

Frankly my 401K was better in better shape during the Clinton administration.

[11th_VA]

I disagree this time around. Bush needs to start saturating the internet with pop up adds. At a minimum ...

[Reagan Man]

... Kerry's party is totally owned by special interests. They couldn't exist for one minute without the financial and political support of the trial lawyers, the abortion industry, big labor, the teacher's unions, the radical environmentalist movement and the rest of the motley crew who own the Democratic party lock, stock and barrel.

Spoken like a Reagan.

[11th_VA]

Frankly my 401K was better in better shape during the Clinton administration.

Mines better than 4 years ago - my wife chickened out in March 2000 ... and she constantly reminds me ...

[Sonny M]

I disagree this time around. Bush needs to start saturating the internet with pop up adds. At a minimum ...

lol, wouldn't bother me, I have a pop up filter, but I think even his own parents would vote against him if they got saturated with pop ups.

[Pitchfork]

Well done! I'm pretty young so I'm 'buy and hold' for years to come. In any case, there's no denying the fact of our huge economic expansion in the 90's. Claiming 'the dems will dive the economy into the ground' can only be a result of some kind of amnesia.

[MJY1288]

If all you are interested in is your 401K, than vote for Kerry if you think he can create a investment bubble built on a house of cards like Clintion did.

I'm more interested in removing liberals from the Judiciary, and keeping the democrats out of power so the direction of this massive ship can continue drifting to the right instead of the left.

Plus I want a strong defense that doesn't have a Commander-in-Chief who feels he can't act in our Nations self defense without consulting the United Nations.

It's an easy choice for me :-)

[Texasforever]

If you consider vaporware "economic expansion".

[MJY1288]

ROFLMAO

[oceanview]

no denying it? it was built on lies and financial fraud for the most part. of course, Bush didn't do a good job explaining that to americans after he took office, the Nasdaq was already collapsing under Clinton, he had the perfect opportunity to lay it all out when he took office. so in that regards you are correct, its too late to go back and explain to people what really happened in the late 90s. no period in american history had a greater shift in concentration of wealth to the upper class, yet somehow the Dems are able to claim being for the "little guy".

[Pitchfork]

Investment bubble on a house of cards? That's a laugher! What we are experiencing now may be a stock market bubble. A six to eight year expansion that was the largest since the end of WWII isn't a bubble that's a boom my friend. And yes, I will engage in a little 'pocketbook' voting from time to time. Remember, "its the economy stupid".

[risk]

Would the NEA ever think to fund art like this?

[oceanview]

sure, pets.com contributed to that economic miracle, was that real? so we have a market bubble now, but the Nasdaq at 5200 was "fairly valued" at the time? dude, get a grip. we may well have plenty of economic problems now, but what happened in the late 90s was pure fantasyland.

[risk]

I agree. We have to earn our money the old fashioned way.

[Texasforever]

A six to eight year expansion that was the largest since the end of WWII isn't a bubble that's a boom my friend

With financial savvy like that you are in for a very long life of poverty. The '90s were built on the explosion of start-up dot-coms that were never meant to last beyond their initial public offerings. The "Boom" you speak of didn't even begin until the GOP took control of Congress in 1994. There are legions of whiz kid IT workers that are still scratching their heads and wondering where their 100k/year jobs went. That is easy, those jobs went to locations that could provide the same product at realistic costs.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Remember, "its the economy stupid".

Suit yourself. For me "it's national defense against terrorism stupid."

[onedoug]

"They don't hate Bush because they hate the war. They hate the war because they hate Bush."