Posted on 07/20/2004 8:21:44 PM PDT by quantim
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing to answer "every misstatement" Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his allies make at next week's Democratic National Convention in Boston, Republicans will set up a "war room" nearby and launch a new Web site devoted to debunking Democrats.
"We're going to set the record straight as Democrats try to sell a story to the American people that's completely disconnected from the reality," said Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for President Bush's re-election campaign.
The rapid response operation is a joint effort by the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee, and will be in full swing next week as Bush takes a break from campaigning and pulls his TV ads during the convention.
It will include a daily 10 a.m. conference call with reporters hosted by RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and GOP notables. They include: Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, Sens. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Rep. Henry Bonilla of Texas, former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, Mayor Pat McCrory of Charlotte, N.C., and Michael Williams, head of the Texas Railroad Commission.
The war room also will coordinate radio and TV interviews with those GOP surrogates, as well as those for beaming via satellite into targeted markets in battleground states. Republicans at the state level also will hold their own conference calls.
Chad Clanton, a Kerry campaign spokesman, accused Republicans of being "out of credibility and out of touch."
"You can't believe anything this crowd says anymore," Clanton said. "They'd rather attack and smear than roll up their sleeves and offer solutions to the serious problems the American people are facing."
Republican officials expect the Democratic ticket — Kerry and running mate John Edwards — to receive a bounce in polls of about 15 percentage points after the convention. Their goal is to try to cut into that likely post-convention advantage by ensuring that media coverage of the Democratic convention includes the GOP's views.
"We understand we're swimming upstream here," said RNC spokesman Jim Dyke, adding that Republicans see an opportunity to contrast what it considers to be the facts with the rhetoric from the convention. "If we make sure they are introduced to the real John Kerry, we think we can limit that bounce."
Dyke contends Democrats are putting on "a cosmetic convention" to "make over" Kerry and Edwards, who Dyke described as "the first and fourth most liberal senators." In that vein, the Republican Web site is called DemsExtremeMakeover.com.
There won't be any bandwidth left for the rest of us.
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| Posted by RWR8189 On 07/20/2004 1:44:27 PM CDT with 5 comments Republican National Committee ^ | July 20, 2004 The Democrats’ Extreme Makeover – Can John Kerry and John Edwards do anything to shake their extreme liberal record? That’s what they’re trying to do in Boston next week but it’s a big job considering those pesky National Journal ratings that list Kerry as the most liberal member of the Senate in 2003 and Edwards as the 4th most liberal member that year. The Problem With the Democrat Platform – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie began setting the stage for the RNC’s response to the Dems Extreme Makeover in Boston, telling journalists in a conference call Monday, “John Kerry... |
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I was just in Boston for 3 days at college orientation. No one seems really thrilled that the city is going to be a madhouse next week, but it is getting a TON of coverage. Glad I got out of there just in time.
yeah, you got out of there just in time.
Study hard this year....good luck.
Boston and the Dims deserve each other. It's all part of the Curse as far as I'm concerned.
Boston crawling with Rats ... it's a condition ...
It's about G D time!!! Hooray for gonads in the GOP.
I love Dick Cheney. Berger knows toooooo much. This is going to be fun.
Well, hopefully they will bother to get some effective speakers who are armed with facts. The ones they've been using are about as exciting as wall paste and don't even come close to countering the Dem lies.
Sen. Roberts, for example a week ago, was pathetic as a counter balance to Sen. Rockerfeller.
Pubbies need to get some effective speakers out on the talk shows or they are going to lose the PR war, and every possibly, the election. And please don't send out the same old tired professional Republican politicans who are so entrenched in Washington, DC culture that they have no idea what the rest of America is like.
No, no...Leave it to the Dem's, for they are doing a much better job plowing a path to their own demise.
Let us not create a detour!
I agree!:)
Remembering a line from Spinal Tap when the bands gig was canceled in Boston....
" Don't worry, Boston isn't a big college town anyway..."
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