Tony Feather is a partner in Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI and served as political director for Bush/Cheney 2000. Considered a Washington power broker, thanks to some friends named Karl Rove, Joe M. Allbaugh, Ken Mehlman, Donald L. Evans and Jack Oliver, Feather has been on the cutting edge of a major shift in GOP tactics.
Out of the billion dollars spent by the dem 501's... the $27 million the Swifties spent was guided by men in very high places.
Spin.
Kerry lost Virginia because Virginians liked Bush better than Kerry. That's the bottom line.
I believe we would have President Elect Kerry right now if it hadn’t been for the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads. Thanks Swifties, you saved us from a communist president.
Tony Feather is a partner in Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI and served as political director for Bush/Cheney 2000. Considered a Washington power broker, thanks to some friends named Karl Rove, Joe M. Allbaugh, Ken Mehlman, Donald L. Evans and Jack Oliver, Feather has been on the cutting edge of a major shift in GOP tactics.
Thank you for posting this.
Swiftees had two degrees of seperation to Karl Rove.
I recall being excoriated for theorizing that although not directly connected to the BC04 campaign, the Swiftees were getting very good advice from closely connected people who knew just what to do.
This confirms that. I'm glad our side isn't stupid.
This is just spin from a liberal paper to create a non news story. The Roanoke Times is a liberal news paper located in the most pro Bush part of the state, SW VA (where I live). Sometimes that paper is good for a few laughs.
"...The 2004 Swift Boat story began at the National Press Club in May, when the anti-Kerry veterans held a press conference. Except for a short and snide article on the inside pages of the New York Times, the event was completely ignored by the mainstream media. If the media’s intention was to assist Kerry by ignoring his critics, the strategy backfired in an historic fashion..."
FReepers followed this story since May.
Both right wing and left wing media "discovered" this story in August.
LIVE THREAD: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Press Conference on C-SPAN
www.freerepublic.com | May 4, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129629/posts
Posted on 05/04/2004 4:58:36 PM PDT by Howlin
Q) What's the difference between mainstream left and right media?
A) Neither side would know a real story.
BUT if it's anti Bush or anti military they will let you know.
"Out of the billion dollars spent by the dem 501's... the $27 million the Swifties spent was guided by men in very high places."
The billions spent by the Dems was carefully guided too. Kerry's former campaign manager was in charge of the operation (Thunder Road) which was put together for that sole purpose.
BTTT
Swift Boat vets. The most effective use of a political donations ever.
Ping!
The Swifties ads were awesome, but there were many other reasons Kerry lost. 1) He was a liberal from MA. 2) He is a parasite, living on someone else's money all his life. 3) He has the personality of a slug. 4) He persisted in trying to portray himself as a real man and looked stupid doing it. 5) The media tried to help him so blatantly that it offended American's sense of fair play. 6) Hellery and Billy Jeff didn't want him to win and sent their myrmidons into his campaign to assure that result.