Posted on 09/28/2003 7:29:55 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
President Bush's senior advisers describe the Democratic field as unusually weak heading in to the coming election year, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report in a Page One splash.
"Each of them has relative strengths and weaknesses, but happily for us, in each case the relative weaknesses outweigh the relative strengths," Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tells the TIMES.
"They're all Howard Dean now. They have adopted harsh, bitter, personal attacks as their approach. They are a party of protest and pessimism and offer no positive agenda of their own."
Team Bush has delayed the start of running any advertising until a single Democrat is selected.
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"We expect it to be a hard-fought, close election in a country narrowly divided," Karl Rove tells the TIMES. "When a Democratic nominee is finally selected, our expectation is that it could be a close and hard-fought race."
Like the Democrats, the Bush campaign is convinced that the election of 2004 could once again turn on a relative handful of votes in key states.
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True, but bile and hatred are a powerful combination. Evil must be fought and chickens should never be counted before they hatch.
"Nattering nabobs of negativism"?
He's being to kind in describing the Dem Clowns
This is all that the Left has ever been about. It's just more obvious now as alternative media is breaking down their illusion.
Bush '04 Readying for One Democrat, Not 10WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — President Bush's political advisers have set in motion an aggressive re-election machine, building a national network of get-out-the-vote workers and amassing a pile of cash for a blanket advertising campaign expected to begin around the time Democrats settle on their candidate early next year, party officials said.
Mr. Bush's senior advisers, in interviews last week, repeatedly described the Democratic field as unusually weak and divided, providing an important if temporary cushion for Mr. Bush.
Still, they said the recent sharp drop in the president's approval ratings, the continued loss of jobs in the economy and the problems plaguing the American occupation of Iraq only made the political outlook more uncertain in an election that they have long thought could be as tightly contested as the one in 2000.
"We expect it to be a hard-fought, close election in a country narrowly divided," said Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's senior adviser. "When a Democratic nominee is finally selected, our expectation is that it could be a close and hard-fought race."
The decision to delay the start of advertising until about the time the Democrats settle on a nominee is a rejection of what had been a central element of President Bill Clinton's re-election campaign. Mr. Clinton began advertising 16 months before Election Day, in an effort to define the election before the Republicans chose an opponent.
Republicans said that would be a waste of money, given the battle taking place among the Democrats. Instead, aides to Mr. Bush said, their campaign would begin spending when a Democratic nominee starts to emerge from the primary battle, probably battered and very likely almost broke.
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This may seem like a shameless plug...but, it is important nonetheless, that given this fact, we don't have someone like this overseeing the votes being tabulated in any state. In 2000 we learned that we can't afford to not pay attention to state races like this as it was shown they can affect the entire nation--and having someone with integrity in that office is important.
Why change? It has worked for them in the last 10 years.
Except for losing control of Congress, the Senate, and the Presidency.
Personally, I kinda' like their approach!
Ah, nostalgia! I luv to read the news from 1991, it makes me feel 14 years younger!
"Piece of cake Sir - Cuomo's chickened out, so it's just Tsongas, Kerrey, Harkin, Jerry Brown...and that guy, forget the name, from Arkansas or some such place".
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