BUSH TEAM VIEWS DEMOCRATIC FIELD AS 'UNUSUALLY WEAK'

The Drudge Report ^ | Sun Sep 28 2003 19:57:47 ET | Matt Drudge

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>"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."

True, but bile and hatred are a powerful combination. Evil must be fought and chickens should never be counted before they hatch.

[Pokey78]

The NYT article

[Cicero]

They are a party of protest and pessimism and offer no positive agenda of their own.

"Nattering nabobs of negativism"?

[Mo1]

"They're all Howard Dean now. They have adopted harsh, bitter, personal attacks as their approach.

He's being to kind in describing the Dem Clowns

[Texas Eagle]

Stupid DemocRATS. That tactic didn't work in 1992 or 1996 and it won't ........uhhhhhhhh.....wait a minute.

[Unam Sanctam]

Don't get too confident or cocky!

[scabbage]

Unusually weak? Aren`t they always weak? In everything?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"Nattering nabobs of negativism"?

This is all that the Left has ever been about. It's just more obvious now as alternative media is breaking down their illusion.

[ConservativeMan55]

Not only weak, but criminal. Criminal isn't unusual for the Rats.

[mplsconservative]

They are not weak in their vile bile. Say have they talked to their doctor about the purple pill? (That commercial grates me everytime I hear it, kinda like when a democrap opens their mouth.)

[deport]

Bush '04 Readying for One Democrat, Not 10

WASHINGTON, 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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[Republican Wildcat]

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.

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.

[goodnesswins]

I think the are being unusually POLITE......BAAAWWAAAAAAA

[EGPWS]

They have adopted Maintained a harsh, bitter, personal attack as their approach. They are a party of protest and pessimism and offer no positive agenda of their own."

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!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Gee these advisors and such are right on top of things, ain't they? ;0)

[Revolting cat!]

BUSH TEAM VIEWS DEMOCRATIC FIELD AS 'UNUSUALLY WEAK'

Ah, nostalgia! I luv to read the news from 1991, it makes me feel 14 years younger!

[dagnabbit]

I can hear that 1991 Oval Office conversation now:

"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".

[Texas Eagle]

Yup.

[shoedog]

I agree if they said this. However, I wouldnt be surprised if the New York Times is spinning this for headlines to try to further make people think of Bush and his team as arrogant. The Media is in full warfare against Bush!

[dagnabbit]

Good point