Posted on 07/06/2008 9:18:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The swift boats are coming.
They'll go by different names this year, but the largely unregulated interest groups like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - which in 2004 torpedoed Democrat John Kerry with allegations he'd inflated his war record - are gearing up for the 2008 White House race like never before.
So far this year, so-called 527 groups - named for a section of the IRS tax code - have raised a staggering $210 million, up from $182 million at this point in 2004.
But here's the ideological bottom line - roughly two-thirds of that $210 million has been raised by Democratic-friendly groups, according to 527 tax filings compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
"Conservative groups like Swift Boat Veterans got all the attention in 2004, but groups on the left have always raised and spent far more," said Massie Ritsch, the center's communications chief.
When Democrat Barack Obama announced two weeks ago that he'd turn down $80 million in public funds to raise more money privately, he cited as one reason the "smears and attacks" coming from 527s that back Republican rival John McCain.
But most outside money - and most of the toughest ads - has come from liberal groups.
That includes a recent spot depicting a small boy sitting in the lap of his mother, who asks McCain if he is counting on her son to help fight an endless war in Iraq. "Because if you were, you can't have him," the mother says.
The ad was paid for by the political action committee of MoveOn.org, the Democratic activist group, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the largest unions in the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Bard Alert? Did you read the article?
When your ideology makes no sense it costs more to sell it.
Seriously, I did not mean Shakespeare, I meant "Barf Alert".
allegations?
All sKerry had to do to answer the “allegations” was sign the SF-180. He never did. That’s because the “allegations” were the truth.
“That includes a recent spot depicting a small boy sitting in the lap of his mother, who asks McCain if he is counting on her son to help fight an endless war in Iraq. “Because if you were, you can’t have him,” the mother says.”
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There are only two ways Alex would serve his country.
1. He volunteers (probably to get away from Mama bitch.)
2. He’s drafted. The only people who’ve proposed a return of conscription in the recent past are your people, Mama, Democratz Rangel and that pinko from Washington state who went to Baghdad 6 or so years ago. Got that? Democratz want the draft back, not Republicans!
Great comment.
You got that right. That was horrendous!
Barry Hussein Obama wants (in effect) to draft students for compulsory civilian duty as well. And Mad Michelle O. says Hussein will “make us all work.” (When I hear that, I get creepy mental images of Pol Pot’s men driving the educated classes of Cambodia out of the cities into the Killing Fields. A paranoid fantasy, you say? Then why are known Maoists backing Hussein? Why are they welcome guests on his blog? Why are unrepentant terrorists Ayers and Dohrn enthusiastic about Barry?)
SBVT aren't "unregulated intrest groups", they are veterans who serves on swift boats. They didn't make "allegations", they gave truthful testimony of what really happened, because they were there. John Kerry, a compulsive liar, was caught in his lies about his war record, a record he still refuses to release. If he would, then these "alegations" would either be proven right once and for all, or John Kerry's version would. A simple way to put an end to it once and for all. There is only one reason why these records remain under lock and key.
WTF, Keats wrote this??
/sarc
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth formally ceased operations May 31, 2008
The Daily News must be smoking crack...
The guys hurt the left much more than we realized, as can be shown by the continued fear and smear from the mtowards the Swifties.
Funnier still, the left can’t seem to handle a true grassroots effort from every day Americans.
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