Ralph Reed to head Bush's Southeast campaign

[Nambe]

American City Business Journals Inc.

Toccoa native and former Georgia GOP Chairman Ralph Reed will be the Southeast regional campaign chairman for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign. ---

Reed is the founder and president of Century Strategies, an Atlanta-based public relations and public affairs firm. As chairman of the Georgia Republican Party from 2001-2002, he assisted in the election of U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss and the election of Sonny Perdue as the first GOP governor in 130 years and the GOP taking control of the state Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Reed has worked on seven Republican presidential campaigns and served as a consultant and senior advisor to the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign.

Ralph Reed's Real Agenda

'Pat Robertson (to whom Reed evidences unwavering loyalty) has sometimes been accused of advocating a modified brand of Reconstructionism. Reed's words are unequivocal and, given the diverse constituencies on which the Christian Coalition draws, bold: "Reconstructionism is an authoritarian ideology that threatens the most basic civil liberties of a free and democratic society.'

Banish bush From Texas Too

[Sagan]

1. Reed's tactics...

They are typicall sneaky, but effective. What Reed does is to quietly assure the fundamentalist whackos that * really is their guy and that if he sounds moderate, not to worry.

This worked for Chimpy very well in 2000. Of course the media helped that a lot, with downplaying the whole Bob Jones University thing.

Keeping the far right happy is the cornerstone of KKKarl's plan for Chimpy's election in 2004 and Ralph Reed is his point man.

[0007]

2. ...another FOX News whore

that blows snot on the poor & ignorant.

Don't forget this little prick was an Enron player.

[skip2mylou]

3. fair warning...

all candidate start out at the base, left or right, and come back to a point toward the center, after the primaries and leading up to the election.

[diplomats]

6. Very true

that goes for the Dem candidate as well.

[skip2mylou]

7. how will we react

when dean has to move towards the center? Will he sell out us on the left to do so?

[leesa]

32. Dean IS at center...it's just that the right wing and their media puppets

have told you he's radical left. Don't believe the lie. Unless of course you are one of those right wing puppets.

[Tinoire]

36. Thanks

I hate to disparage Dean but I can't believe how many people are falling for the right wing lie that he's antiwar and a liberal.

Everyone is entitled to vote for the candidate of their choice but why go overboard and call Dean a liberal when he clearly state he was not and his record is in no way liberal?

Buyer- just know what you're buying so you won't be disappointed.

[Submariner]

5. Snake oil salesman

He would do good conning his ilk into buying prayer cloths. I don't trust these pat robertson fundie groupies. they are a dangerous element that should do us a favor and drink the cool-aid, ala rev. jim jones. this part of the gene pool we don't need around.

[Warpy]

11. This is good news.

Ralph bungles most of his campaigns, and manages to turn off more people than he energizes. He's been a sure loser for more than one wingnut candidate.

I think they gave him Dixie because they think that's the one part of the country he can't screw up.

[Tinoire]

33. What campaigns has Ralph bungled?

[bluestateguy]

4. Gotta turn out that Angry White Male Vote Now...

That's Reed's job.

[skip2mylou]

9. I've heard the term "Angry White Male"

what does it mean to you? I haven't nailed down a clear understanding of where the term came from from and why it is used.

[snippy]

16. The "Angry White Male" thinks his failures are the fault

of others, including the civil rights movement, gun control, environmentalists, feminists, affirmative action, Mexicans, liberals, socialists, communists, and anyone more successful or happier than he is. They are the kreepers and the shittoheads. They also were the target of the Bush campaign in South Carolina when it spread the rumor that John McCain had a "nigger" daughter.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Time for the Dems to educate the southern right-wingers

and let them know how Ralph Reed offered to use them in a letter writing campaign in order to apply pressure on Congress to speed up energy deregulation.

The Right Wing under Ralph Reed: Pimping for Christ.

[AdrianInOcala]

10. Well, isn't that just peachy

Man-Boy Ralphie's comin' down to run smirk's reelection campaign. God, I can't stand little Ralphie Reed. He's the poster boy for The Republican Nazi Youth.

[havocmom]

12. Photoshoppers: we need a shot of Reed in bed

with Racicot. Come on... it'd be a hoot.

[saigon68]

28. READ THIS GARBAGE QUOTE ON THE LITTLE CREEP

http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-carney111302.asp


If Republicans stay true to their social conservative roots, all the good country people there who believe in God will vote straight GOP. And Sonny Perdue, Ralph Reed, and Saxby Chambliss will be remembered as the shepherds of the new era.

— Timothy P. Carney is a reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report.

[Tinoire]

31. Until then...

[tpub]

13. Bring him on!

-NOLA

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. Another White Southern Bigot

for Bush, what a suprise!!!

[saigon68]

39. No surprise here

N/t

[realFedUp]

15. Pockets full of money for the collection plates

bet more than a few churches will have their hands out.

[gulliver]

17. Enron consultant Ralph Reed

Karl Rove reportedly directed Enron money to Reed. Enron's 401(k) pensions went up in smoke, and it looks like the Enron payroll was used as a Republican slush fund to pay off snakes like Reed.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,197609-3,00.html

[9215]

23. kick

.

[maxanne]

18. Pat's stance on Liberia

Isn't going to reflect well on ole Ralph - :evilgrin:

[demgrrrll]

19. Wasn't he behind the attacks on Cleland in Georgia, the smarmy

little pos. Never did like him.

[saigon68]

24. This Little Bastard was responsible

Just do a few searches around the WEB to find out what this little asshole did to Max Cleland, --- A true American Hero

[jiacinto]

20. Turnout is key

Reed is great at turnout and field operations. Dems in those states need to beef up their field programs.

[9215]

21. Was Reed's grandpappy involved in FDR hit?

The below is taken from some stuff on the FDR hit
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/1930s.htm

......Others included David Reed, the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania who remarked on the floor of the senate in May 1932: "I do not often envy other countries and their governments, but I say that if this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs one now."
....


Is this guy any connection to Ralph Reed???

In addition one of David Reed's crony's John Raskob has a "foundation" that underwrites faith based initiatives. Thought there might be a link.

[cboy4]

22. Reed is one of the most hateful

people around....thus he has some sort of right wing fundamentalist Christian Republican connection (I know, redundant).

He works in the same manner as Bush...during the campaign, suppress all of his homophobic hate, say he's a uniter, not a divider with a wink ---- and then as fast as you can say "stolen election," all of a sudden we're hearing about faith-based this and that. It's disgraceful.

[Tinoire]

30. Reed quote

"It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Vietcong. History tells us which tactic was more effective."--Ralph Reed, Los Angeles Times, 3/22/92

[saigon68]

34. Thank you General Van Dong Reed

This little prick has one thing right though. This is WAR. A fight to the finish.

These scumbags are capable of anything. Their heritage includes Howard Hunt,Gordon Liddy, Donald Segretti, Lee Atwater, Josef Goebbels and assorted other dirty tricksters.

[saigon68]

38. Donald Segretti

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0206/watergate.players/content.4.4.html


DONALD SEGRETTI
Headed the "dirty tricks" campaign for the Committee for the Re-election of the President, which might have benefited from information the Watergate burglars were seeking at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Segretti served four and a half months in prison on three misdemeanor charges for dispensing false campaign literature. A lawyer, Segretti had his California license suspended for two years. Now 59, he practices in Orange County where he briefly ran for a judgeship but withdrew because of Watergate publicity.

[Tinoire]

25. Reed should not be so easily dismissed

The resemblance to Damien from the Omen is more than physical.

Reed was involved in orchestrating McKinney's defeat. This isn't someone to take lightly because 50 million of fundamentalists don't.

[saigon68]

26. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THIS LITTLE PRICK

Look what he did for Saxby Chambliss


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2002-11-06-chambliss_x.htm

Chambliss, 59, a four-term congressman from Moultrie, was virtually unknown in Atlanta and its Republican suburbs, where a hefty share of Georgia voters reside. But his message that Cleland was too liberal for Georgia resonated statewide. He cited the incumbent's vote on a proposed department of homeland security; Cleland had sided with fellow Democrats by insisting that workers' civil-service protections be retained. Chambliss even ran a TV ad picturing Cleland with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

[Tinoire]

27. Thanks Saigon. I'm beginning to fear that the GOP just MAY win again

because we're too busy laughing to understand just who we're dealing with.

[saigon68]

29. CHIMPY AND SAXBY CHAMBLISS--- ABOMINABLE

Not me-- as a Vet I point out the KING has no clothes

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/04/1036308257655.html

Senator Max Cleland, of Georgia, was 25 when he had three limbs amputated after an American grenade exploded when he picked it up near Khe Sanh in South Vietnam.

If the senator, one of only 52 American servicemen who lost three limbs in Vietnam out of 6878 amputees, thought this record would get him a free pass on military issues, then his challenger, Saxby Chambliss, has made him think again.

Mr Chambliss, 59, who avoided military service because he received student deferments and then a medical deferment because of a bad knee, has attacked Mr Cleland as being soft on national defence because he voted 11 times against President George Bush's Homeland Security Bill. The race has become so close that Mr Bush, criticised for avoiding Vietnam by serving in Texas as a National Guard pilot, flew to Georgia at the weekend to whip up support for Mr Chambliss.


ALL OF THIS THANKS TO THE CREEPY LITTLE CRETIN RALPH REED

Chambliss is another CHICKENHAWK

[indepat]

35. I can truthfully say I don't hate Mr. Reed, but I can't truefully say he's

not on my top ten most-despised list.

[LeftofU]

37. is this the lowlife from the moral majority? n\t

[Tinoire]

40. Yes

When the Moral Majority folded in the late 1980s, a remnant of previously apolitical Evangelicals-turned politically-active conservatives lingered as the foundation for a second wave of Religious Right activism. Under Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed’s leadership, a much more ambitious grassroots strategy was launched to realize the political promise of Virginia’s evangelical Christians. Through the establishment of local chapters, the deployment of voter guides and congressional scorecards, direct mailings, conferences, and a less religious, more politically-responsible rhetoric, Robertson and Reed’s Christian Coalition influenced central Virginia in a deeper way. The area became a theater of religiously-charged political activity, helping elect George Allen and bring about the improbable Republican nominations of Michael Farris and Oliver North.

http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~hius316/religious/Religright.html

[saigon68]

41. Thanks Tinoire

For the history lesson.

Those who ignore History are doomed to repeat it.:-)

[SharonAnn]

42. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag

Ralph Reed, quoted in a Working for Change article 02-01-02

"What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time. I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values." When the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed said those words at the beginning of the culture wars in the 1990s, he might have sent a chill down the spines of many of us -- but few imagined how quickly Reed himself would be directly involved in the governance of the country.

Reed once said of his political strategy: "I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night.""

[saigon68]

43. What an Evil Little Man

His hands are coated with Blood

[young_at_heart]

44. Few people know about him......they NEED to

The fact that Bush has chosen him tells you something huge about Bush. Ralph Reed is downright nasty, but his Christianity is pushed big time. I remember that statement and how pleased he was to go by the neme "Stealth". I'm hoping some reporters will write about him.