We call on George Bush to release the video of his speech to the CNP.

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From a 2002 ABC News article on the CNP:


In 1999, candidate George W. Bush spoke before a closed-press CNP session in San Antonio. His speech, contemporaneously described as a typical mid-campaign ministration to conservatives, was recorded on audio tape.

(Depending on whose account you believe, Bush promised to appoint only anti-abortion-rights judges to the Supreme Court, or he stuck to his campaign "strict constructionist" phrase. Or he took a tough stance against gays and lesbians, or maybe he didn't).

The media and center-left activist groups urged the group and Bush's presidential campaign to release the tape of his remarks. The CNP, citing its bylaws that restrict access to speeches, declined. So did the Bush campaign, citing the CNP.

Shortly thereafter, magisterial conservatives pronounced the allegedly moderate younger Bush fit for the mantle of Republican leadership.
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/council_020501.html

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1. Wow, that's pretty strong for ABC. And good: CNP is scary and evil.

Damn right the speech should be released. Already I'm pleased that they're even mentioning this shady organization on national news.

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2. They wrote this in 2002. They should reprise it now for the hypocrisy

of the Bush-Cheney campaign's demand for Kerry to release the video of the NY fundraiser.

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4. Bump. Hope the Kerry campaign sees it.

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[Octafish]

3. Whaddaya hidin' Smirko?

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5. That he promised the CNP to fulfill their far right agenda.

He just doesn't want the rest of the country to know that he is every bit the far right wingnut as the CNPers.