Posted on 08/23/2004 12:33:38 PM PDT by ppaul
"I was wondering how long it would take the media to spin the President's dissatisfaction with (failed) CFR and 527s into an attack on the Swifties. The answer....minutes."
The point is, shouldn't Rove have known that the MSM was going to do this?
What President Bush did here was actually very clever. As others have said on this thread, Bush knows these ads are not going to end. But he has brought to the table, questioning the ads by all the 527's. Most of them have been vicerally against Bush. And in contrast Bush never lost his cool and Kerry did when they attacked him. Kerry is not about to condemn ads that attack Bush, but Bush has backed him into a corner by condemning all of them.
We are so screwed if those two lawyers take over. I don't believe they will, but I have imagined the scenario. I would stop being involved at all levels by refusing to watch the debacle.
I love Barney as part of the defense team!!!!!!!!
Aug 05, 2004 - The White House yesterday distanced itself from a political ad that questions John Kerry's Vietnam service and called on the Democratic presidential nominee to join President Bush in demanding an "immediate cessation" of all advertisements by outside groups. "We have not and will not question Senator Kerry's service in Vietnam," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One. "The president is calling for an immediate cessation to all the unregulated soft money activity." He added: "We hope the Kerry campaign will join us."They also filed a complaint back in March '04...which resulted in this opinion...June 23, 2004 - In a major shift in fundraising strategy, President Bush’s finance team has begun asking wealthy Republicans to cut checks as large as $1 million to GOP state parties in key election battlegrounds rather than steering their funds to independent groups created in recent months to support Republican candidates this fall.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Federal Election Commission Thursday rejected a proposal to rein in the unlimited fundraising and spending power of independent political groups attempting to influence the outcome of this year's presidential race. Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc Racicot and Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called the FEC decision "irresponsible" in a joint statement.The Dems were dancing for joy over this decision...now they are getting slapped upside the head with it, serves them right. Now, if we could just get the MSM to report this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.