That's just enough to strike terror into some people's heart.
Posted on 03/29/2005 7:56:14 PM PST by Pikamax
Liberals To Target DeLay In Ads
By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 30, 2005; Page A04
Democratic officials and a well-funded liberal advocacy group said yesterday that they will try to capitalize on the new visibility of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) by casting him as a symbol of Republican excess, as critics once did with former House speaker New Gingrich.
Democratic officials in the House and Senate said that news coverage of DeLay's travel and ties to lobbyists, and his high profile in the congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, has given them an opening to use him as more of a foil. They said that until now, he was so little known to the general public -- despite his enormous power at the Capitol -- that attacks on him were not effective.
The Campaign for America's Future, backed by labor and other liberal leaders, plans to announce today that DeLay will be featured in television ads in at least four Republican House districts. The group said it is buying a 30-second ad in DeLay's suburban Houston district that shows a man wearing cufflinks and a Rolex watch and washing his hands.
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Am I missing something? Doesn't Delay have a pretty safe seat? Let them waste their money.
Errrrr...which is the bad part? The fact that he wears cufflinks and a Rolex or the fact that he washes his hands?
No really, I don't know. Sorry.
Yeah, but I think the major push will be in contested districts. Give him a negative reputation and then link him in voters' minds with the local GOP candidate.
Not much new here, whenever there's a politician who's a lightning rod, it's a common tactic. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The question is what, if anything, the GOP will do about it.
Let them, I'm really sorry, I like Delay, but, and maybe this is a good thing, most people don't even know what he looks like and the commercial just shows hands with cufflinks and a rolex, sort of like attaching a canidate to some guy somewhere whom you've never heard of, or don't care about.
I hate it when people from outside a state think they can come in and target a politician. Let the Texans decide.
That's just enough to strike terror into some people's heart.
But it's not really about Texas. It's about the Democrats trying to run against Delay nationally.
What chafes me is the contrived spin: you have these over-zealous prosecutors that, uh, over-zealously prosecute DeLay and then the spinners say "look at all those investigations! (Where there's smoke ...)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369620/posts
Title: GOP: Soros Behind DeLay Attacks
This was posted a few days ago. Everybody needs to save this info.
Either ignore it (since most people don't even know what Tom Delay even looks like or who he is, something that drives the DUmmies even more crazy) or use Hillary and or Pelosi or the Howard Dean.
Dean and Hillary do have name recognition and are recognizable, tying a canidate to them, will definatley hurt, Pelosi, unfortunatley, probably wouldn't work as well, most people wouldn't have a clue who she was if she got out of a car, spit at them, kicked them, laughed, and had her chauffer drive off.
Check the link in post #11
Soros. Thrillsville. Doesn't he know all he really accomplishes with this stuff is to solidify the resolve and support behind the candidate he's attacking. Even folks who have their doubts about DeLay will rally around him against attack.
Oh well. Let it backfire on him.
I know. But it's still Texans who will vote to keep him or not. It will backfire, I predict. G'head, Soros, mess with Texas.
Or is it more about removing him as Majority Leader? I'm so slow on the uptake about this stuff. I guess I don't think politically very well.
Please do read the article and save it - as a document or bookmark it.
It's most revealing about who all besides Soros is orchestrating this effort to get DeLay out.
OOOOOOOh-scary, if I were DeLay, I would quit now, those darn dems are just too clever!
Will do.
How much do you think Soros's "help" help President Bush win the election? Not much either way, or did he mobilize folks in the President's favor?
Well .. I don't think it had that much affect.
I noticed you just joined FR today - what brought you here?
Hi. Yeah, I'm a newbie.
I belong to several blogs and surf way too much at work. I guess I was just looking for a different place to go. Sometimes I think I crave replies. I'd heard of Free Republic during the election so I thought I'd give it a try.
This election was my first really where I put any effort into finding out what was going on. I guess you could blame that on 9/11. And I've been paying attention to the Schiavo case. I see that is a big topic of discussion here. So I thought I'd hang around.
Have you guys been getting more new people than usual lately?
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