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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top-giving corporate political action committees didn't hedge their bets in the fall elections despite the narrow division between the GOP and Democrats in Congress. They favored Republican candidates 10-to-1. Of 268 corporate PACs that donated $100,000 or more to presidential and congressional candidates from January 2003 through the middle of last month, 245 gave the majority of their contributions to GOP hopefuls, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Political Money Line campaign finance tracking service.

Here’s how much of an insiders’ cabal the latest Bush cabinet is. The new education secretary, Margaret Spellings, began her political career in the mid-1980s, when Karl Rove, the president’s election strategist, asked her out on a date. Somehow, he got over the rejection. Now look at Alberto Gonzales, the new attorney-general. And who replaced Gonzales as chief White House lawyer? One Harriet Miers, another under-the-radar flunky of the first term. Fierce loyalty is a prerequisite for serving Bush, as Colin Powell found out. Bush regards his re-election as a vindication of almost everything he has done in the past...

One of the most stinging criticisms of President Bush has been that he operates in a bubble where dissenting views are not welcome and genuine debate is rare. And while 51 percent of American voters reelected the president, exit polls showed that more of them felt the country was on the wrong track than on the right track. .....

While I'm somewhat of a polictical/news junkie, I'm not very knowledgeable (and probably rather naieve) about the internal workings of a political party - - especially the Democrats. OK, it's very obvious that they have all been on their con calls and/or have received their email or faxes w their talking points, but I sometimes wonder what the RNC and the Bush campaign folks do about it - - it seems to me that they don't always respond very quickly to these points and/or counter them very effectively. If it's clear to me that these spinmeisters all say the exact...

I find a lot of Kerry's talking points on this website...Here is a sample. ~snip The power of the movement to defeat Bush on November 2 goes far beyond this election. The new alliance of labor, African American, Latino, women, youth, seniors, glbt, peace and environmentalists who make up this movement holds in its hands the potential to win much bigger change. The upsurge of independent activity to defeat the ultra-right opens new possibilities toward a people’s party free of transnational domination.~ http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/589/1/27/

Thursday, October 21, 2004 Sister, your thinking is so irrational, it's outright bizarre. You offer nothing more than a point-by-point rote recitation of fallacious Democrat talking points, spin-by-spin. Do you read any of the incisive analyses I send you that are based on hard facts? If you analyze what the Democrats spew, it's easy to deconstruct the vast majority of their rhetoric as nothing more than baseless, emotional propaganda. Pick a topic, any topic, and I'll deconstruct the Democrat fantasy for you based on tangible, factual, empirical data. I'll even tell you where the Democrats are correct. You may not...

Hannity: Alright Terry, let me ask you this. McAuliffe: Shoot Sean. Hannity: He spent 20 years in the United States Senate, 300 Bills proposed, he only passed five. Can you look into the camera right there -- and don't spin -- one specific piece of legislation that John Kerry passed that made this country better in the past 20 years. Look right in the camera right there. What is it? McAuliffe: Yeah. I can tell you John Kerry was involved in a lot of pieces of legislation. Hannity: No, no, no. One he wrote, that one accomplishment with his name...

Just watched "Democratic Strategist" Kirsten Powers on Hannity and Colmes. Gawd, I feel old. It seems the political strategists the media is dredging up have the verbal cadence of Valley Girls. The segment was dissecting Heinz-Kerry's comment about never sending anyone in an American uniform to fight and die for oil and greed. Kirsten had one talking point: "What's wrong with objecting to having people die for oil and greed?" Hannity was nailing Kirsten, the Democratic Strategist. Colmes, bless his heart, obviously felt the need to feed her lines, and she agreed and nodded whole-heartedly , thus saving her from...

   The debate tonight presents a tremendous opportunity for the campaign to attract undecided voters, but people's perceptions are shaped as much by their conversations around the water cooler as by the debates themselves. The Vice President's goal is to do what he's been doing throughout this election: explain to the American people why the President's policies are right for America and the world we live in today - in fighting the war on terror, in keeping our economy growing and in responding to the new challenges of the 21st century.  After last week's debate, the Kerry campaign spin machine...

Dear xxx, The debate tonight presents a tremendous opportunity for the campaign to attract undecided voters, but people's perceptions are shaped as much by their conversations around the water cooler as by the debates themselves. The Vice President's goal is to do what he's been doing throughout this election: explain to the American people why the President's policies are right for America and the world we live in today - in fighting the war on terror, in keeping our economy growing and in responding to the new challenges of the 21st century. After last week's debate, the Kerry campaign spin...

The Talk Shows Sunday, October 3rd, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House communications director Dan Bartlett; Tad Devine, senior adviser to Kerry-Edwards campaign; Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm; Colorado Gov. Bill Owens.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senatorial candidates Rep. Brad Carson, D-Okla., and former Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House communications director Dan Bartlett; Joe Lockhart, senior adviser to Kerry-Edwards campaign. THIS WEEK (ABC): National security adviser Condoleeeza Rice; Kerry foreign policy adviser and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. LATE EDITION (CNN) : National security adviser...

I keep hearing and for some reason it seems to emanate from the left, is some presidents who served in the military make very poor war presidents, while very good wartime presidents have no military experience. They hold up FDR and Abraham Lincoln as examples of the latter. Well, I'm not positive about Roosevelt, so I won't go any further on him. On the other hand, I'm quite tired of yelling "The Blackhawk Wars, dammit, the Blackhawk Wars!", to the conceding, typically ineffectual Republican talking head. Abraham Lincoln not only served in the military, he was an officer, a Captain,...

Interactive says "compare" candidates, but is really nothing more than a kerry talking points interactive and survey. FREEP time.

I have friends who refused to watch, listen to or even read Bush's speech to the RNC last week -but I just had to see it. I was working that night, so I set my VCR and came home to the tape at around 1 a.m. It's hard to describe the mixture of nausea and fear that gripped me as I watched this speech. I was offended at the use of the tragedy of 9/11 as political leverage - but, in a strange way, it was almost a relief. The Republicans have finally fully embraced the position they've been hinting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Over the weekend, the White House released talking points on several aspects of the speech President George Bush gave at the Republican National Convention as well as the August national employment numbers. "Talking Points on August employment numbers" highlights job figures released September 4 indicating the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, the lowest since October 2001. There were 144,000 new jobs added in August, and June and July job numbers were revised upward by 59,000. In all, nearly 1.7 million new jobs have been added since this time last year. "President Bush provides leadership on tax reform"...

Hosts of ABC's "The View" Gang Up on Giuliani for Backing Bush Joy Behar ridiculed Giuliani for claiming that the first thing he said after the 9/11 attacks was "thank God" George W. Bush "was our President" and she insisted that "of course" Al Gore would have been just as "tough" on terrorism. Former CBS News correspondent Meredith Vieira, who participated Sunday in an anti-Bush march, seemed similarly ignorant, scolding Giuliani: "The implication is that if you disagree, I think, with the administration that somehow you are on the side of the terrorists. " Giuliani shot back: "That isn't who...

The heated argument consumed nearly eight minutes, so space permits only some limited excerpts as provided by the MRC's Jessica Anderson who caught the August 31 exchange: Joy Behar: "Did you really say that, 'Thank God he was our President'? That's the first thing you said? You didn't say 'Oh, expletive,' or something?" Rudy Giuliani: "No, no, that wasn't the first thing I said. That's one of the things that I said on September 11th to my police commissioner. It really came out because that was just a few months after that disputed election, and so I had called the...

Is there a new Kerry talking point, or did the same guy call both Limbaugh and Hannity today? I heard a caller on each program say the Fox News Channel should be a 527 organization

We know that the Dems are planning to continue to politically attack the president. They are using their 527's to spend in excess of $400 million dollars to attack the President. They are also vigorously attacking the SwiftVets using Legal Terrorism This is the Big Time, Freepers. This is the time when WE must step up and support. This is not yet the march in the streets we did in Florida and outside of Dick Cheney's house in 2000. This is a battle where the mainstream media are taking their marching orders directly from the DNC. They are going to...

One never knows who is trolling FR for tidbits, sound bites and suggestions. Please use this thread to offer your own talking points and sound bites for the Swifties and media. PLEASE - Sincere, serious and well thought out sound bites/talking points only! Let's make this a neat, compact reference thread for the media and Swifties. If someone refuses to cooperate, please self moderate (abuse button)!