"Join President Bush's Campaign Team!"

[VolcanoJen]

How I got on Marc Racicot's email list I'll never know, but for those who do not share this distinction with me, I thought I'd post this for cheap laffs. I find the solicitation for "or even $50 or $25" to be especially folksy and cute.

And don't even think about missing the "Bad Things Howard Dean Said About WhistleAss" portion of the letter. :-)

Dear Jennifer,

If you support President Bush's strong leadership...

If you're grateful he and Laura have restored honor and dignity to the White House...

If you believe it's important for America and the world that he and Dick Cheney have four more years in office...

...then I hope you let me send you a Charter Member card identifying you as one of the President's key supporters. Please activate it by making a campaign gift of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $250, $100, or even $50 or $25 today at www.GeorgeWBush.com/CharterMember/ using the campaign's secure server.

It's critical to the President you make your Charter Membership gift to his campaign now. For while he's focused on his great responsibilities - winning the war against terrorism and strengthening our economy - he's counting on you and me to get his grassroots campaign off to a strong start, Jennifer.

And as chairman of the President's re-election, I can tell you we need your financial support at www.GeorgeWBush.com/CharterMember/. Democrats and their allies will have more money to spend attacking the President during the nomination battle than we will have to defend him.

If you need more convincing the President needs your help, consider what Democrats are saying. The race is just starting, but their rhetoric is already red-hot.

John Kerry claims President Bush is "stealing from America's children." He compared the President to Saddam Hussein, saying America needs a "regime change" just like Iraq did.

Howard Dean said he's heard the President might suspend the 2004 election, called him "reckless" and "despicable," compared our President to the Taliban, and said he was trying to "destroy Social Security, Medicare, our public schools, and public services."

Dick Gephardt said the President's "phony macho business is not getting us where we need to be."

Bob Graham talked "impeachment," accusing the President of "secrecy and manipulation."

John Edwards said the President's plans will "corrupt the American economy."

Joe Lieberman said President Bush "has made us weaker" and was "nearly as dangerous to our long-term security" as Iraqi militants.

The Democrat National Committee depicted the President as a "madman" and a Democrat leader invoked the Holocaust when talking about him and his policies. And another national Democrat leader attacked the President as "the village idiot from Texas."

This ugly, overheated rhetoric shows Democrats will say anything and stop at nothing to defeat this President. A slash and burn campaign like this will rally the left wing of the Democrat Party, which could matter in an election where 50% of Americans may not vote.

Democrats will have the all-out help of some leaders in the AFL-CIO, many wealthy personal injury trial lawyers, and well-funded liberal special interests. The hundreds of millions of dollars they will spend could make the race close. One wealthy currency trader has already pledged $10 million to defeat the President.

The President needs your help to overcome these assaults and others that lie ahead. So please send your Charter Membership gift for whatever you can afford today at www.GeorgeWBush.com/CharterMember/. The new Federal campaign contribution limit is $2,000 a person or $4,000 a couple. I'll have your Charter Membership card prepared and sent to you as soon as possible after your contribution has been logged in.

There is so much this President has done to lead our country in the war against terrorism, to strengthen our economy, and to help build a more compassionate society.

George W. Bush has the vision our nation needs, the moral clarity the world has been waiting for and the values we want in our President. If you agree, then help him today. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Chairman
Bush-Cheney '04

P.S. Please join the President's campaign team and activate your Charter Membership by sending your gift today at www.GeorgeWBush.com/CharterMember/. You'll be casting an early vote for his reelection by doing so...and showing how strongly you disagree with the ugly, untrue things Democrats are saying in their desperate bid for backing from their party's left wing.

The President needs your support today to win.

[never cry wolf]

1. Thanks for the laffs

Still lying their way into the cash.

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Now wait a damn minute....

Joe Lieberman said President Bush "has made us weaker" and was "nearly as dangerous to our long-term security" as Iraqi militants.

When did Holy Joe say this? Last time I checked he was completely behind the PNAC agenda.

[madrchsod]

5. ya last week -i think-

the rethugs had "nice" words to say about joe on their website...

[CarlBallard]

12. Joe's been fighting Bush on homeland security

I don't know where the exact quote came from but Lieberman pushed hard for a homeland security department and 9/11 commission when smirk opposed them. My best guess is that he said it then.

[madrchsod]

3. i`ve been getting

at least an email a day since last week.of course i signed up for everything they offer. i must admit they do alot better than the democrats in their email campaign. i wonder if the national party just doesn`t care...

[priller]

4. And how about this one?

Democrats and their allies will have more money to spend attacking the President during the nomination battle than we will have to defend him.

Uh, umm, isn't Bush raking in much more money than all the Dems combined?

[PaDUer]

6. DItto

EOM

[Hailtothechimp]

7. You mean million dollar fundraisers at our expense aren't enough?

Anyone intelligent enough to read that letter should know that bu$h does not give a damn about them or anybody that they know.

[ComerPerro]

8. The best thing about the Dem quotes?

Its all true!
Bush is fucking us.

[sandnsea]

9. lol... the rhetoric really IS red hot

What the hell is this letter but a bunch of 'ugly, over-heated rhetoric'. The pot and the kettle and all of that.

And I am ashamed Marc Racicot is from Montana.

[CarlBallard]

10. That's crazy

Democrats and their allies will have more money to spend attacking the President during the nomination battle than we will have to defend him. Um what?

John Kerry claims President Bush is "stealing from America's children." He compared the President to Saddam Hussein, saying America needs a "regime change" just like Iraq did. First off he said that before the war so your tense is wrong. Second he didn't compare them just said that both regimes needed to be changed.

Bob Graham talked "impeachment," accusing the President of "secrecy and manipulation." He said using Republican standards the president would have been impeached. Also is quoting someone who says the president needs to be impeached really the best way to get money?

Joe Lieberman said President Bush "has made us weaker" and was "nearly as dangerous to our long-term security" as Iraqi militants. I defend Lieberman on these boards. Still he's wrong: Bush is much more dangerous to our long-term security than Iraqi militants. Iraqi militants won't be writing our foreign policy for the next 2 years or alianating our allies.

As for the rest of the quotes, by primary candidates, isn't it funny how short the quotes are and how much explination they need. Sounds like the're being taken out of context.

[diamond14]

11. got this letter from my senator, John Warner (R-Virginia) today

(caution: sick stuff)

-snips_

"I am enormously proud of President Bush, our military and their leaders, who fashioned a force and a battle plan unlike any the world has ever known. Our nation, along with other willing allies, swiftly and successfully ended the oppression and tyranny of Saddam Hussein's regime. As a resutl, the Iraqi people are enjoying freedoms that have been absent in Iraq for nearly half-a-century. While war is always the last option, it sometimes becomes an important and necessary step to protect the lives and interests of the American people. Thanks to the men and women of the United States armed forces who answered the President's call, Americans both today and in future generations can sleep better knowing the world is a safer place."

----------

"A paramount objective of Operation Iraqi Freedom was to disarm the Hussein regime of its weapons of mass destruction(WMD). While the 1,400 member Iraqi Survey Group scours the sizable Iraqi landscape for these weapons, I have exercised oversight authority as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee by holding hearings on the evidence surrounding Iraq's WMD programs. In addition, I sit on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is conducting a thorough review of pre-war Iraqi intelligence, focusing particular attention on how it was gathered and disseminated to the Administration. At this time, however, I see no indications that the Administration engaged in any effort to distort given intelligence."

[Virginian]

18. This man ran UNOPPOSED in his last election.

The Democratic party did not put up a sacrificial candidate to run against John Warner. It makes me really, really want term limits for senators.

For those who are not from the Old Dominion, Don't confuse Senator John Warner(R) with Governor Mark Warner(D).
John Warner(R) was one of Elizabeth Taylor's collection of husbands.
Mark Warner(D) has been struggling to pull our state out of the financial mess all those years of Republican Governors have gotten us into.

We do have term limits on the state level. Our governors cannot be reelected, but they can be elected again if they sit out a term.

[diamond14]

22. that really horrified me...unopposed...was only my second election

since moving here...so I wasn't used to this Southern-style politics...most states would at least TRY to put up some opposition...

I had to volunteer on Kennedy's campaign in Maryland, since every Democratic group in Virginia seemed to know little about how that happened or why it happened or what they were going to do about it...(but, they did give me the number for the Kennedy campaign and I did the phone banks there, and made signs)...

sad situation here...has it always been like that ????

P.S....on a lighter note...I worked for Bill Euille, who WON as the new mayor of Alexandria on May 6, 2003...our first Black Mayor and I am proud to be a part of that....(sad, Kennedy lost Maryland though)

[Virginian]

27. It would have been hard for Alex not to have a black mayor.

Both candidates were Black men.
I knew of Bill Cleveland way back when he organized our first neighborhood watch program, if it is the same Bill Cleveland who used to be an Alexandria police officer. I was surprised that he would run as a Republican.

I moved to the Richmond area in '86 (for about 10 years) and haven't paid much attention to Alexandria since I left.

I can understand how some people in the more rural areas can be conservatives, they haven't been exposed to a variety of people and viewpoints. I really don't understand how anyone in such a culturally diverse, cosmopolitan area as Northern Virginia can be closeminded enough to be conservative. Besides, we are crowded too close together to be self centered. In order to get along, we have to respect the other person's view point.

I voted, but I pretty much ignored politics from Nixon until the neo-clones started picking on Clinton.
I don't the answer to the question you asked in your next post. I haven't gotten that deeply into local and regional issues. I just know some of these districts are very gerimandered.

Which Kennedy did you work for in the election, Kathleen Townsend or Mark Shriver? She should have won. He had too many well seasoned opponents.

[diamond14]

23. Virginian...some said here that Virginia needs to change the way

each county selects their candidates for offices...something like Virginia's version of the Electorial College ...do you know about this ??? and which groups are working to change the vote here, so it represents the MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS, like it should...??? thanks...

[Virginian]

13. This part confuses me

One wealthy currency trader has already pledged $10 million to defeat the President.
The new Federal campaign contribution limit is $2,000 a person or $4,000 a couple.

The two lines above are in consecutive paragraphs. Are they trying to say, "Give to the limit because the Dems don't have a limit?"
What a bunch of bunk!

[Solomon]

14. That letter is the best thing since sliced bread for democrats.

The letter puts the best soundbites of all the democrats in one place and sends it to people at no cost to the democrats. The letter contains no accomplishments of Bush, but great criticisms of him. How stupid can you be?

[CarlBallard]

15. No kidding

This is the briliant mind of Carl Rove at work? Send Bush's supporters a half dozen quotes about why he's a loser, including that he ought to be impeached, and that he's bad for national security.

[oasis]

17. A half-dozen prominent candidates with legitimate criticisms of Bush

and the RNC/Bush team circulates them. You are correct Solomon.

[Not a robought]

16. Poor bush!

He's such an undergod!... I mean underdog!

[ozymandius]

19. Too bad they didn't send you this letter by regular mail.

Because they probably would have sent a postage-paid envelope for your contribution. Should this ever be the case, I encourage you to send them a brick.

[VolcanoJen]

25. Excellent proposal, ozymandius!

I do admit that when Republicans send me campaign solicitations via snail mail, I always return the postage-paid envelopes empty, regardless of how fruitless and childish that may seem.

:-)

[VOX]

20. "One wealthy currency trader" = thinly veiled anti-Semitism...

Racicot's writers seem to be invoking the stereotype of the "Jewish money lender." The wealthy currency trader mentioned is no doubt George Soros, noted fund investor and philanthropist; and yes, he is Jewish.
Of course, never mind the fact that the * war chest is somewhere around $200 million (a record), and he's running unopposed.

http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/963653p-6754331c.html
Billionaire Soros commits $10 million to defeat Bush
Friday, August 8, 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) - Making a major foray into partisan politics, multibillionaire George Soros is committing $10 million to a new Democratic-leaning group aimed at defeating President Bush next year.
Soros, who in the past has donated on a smaller scale to Democratic candidates and the party, pledged the money to a political action committee called America Coming Together, spokesman Michael Vachon said Friday.
<snip>
"In addition to Soros' pledge of $10 million, the PAC has raised $8 million from labor groups and a total of $12 million from several individuals, Malcolm said. The donors include Louis and Dorothy Cullman, who helped finance the newspaper ad with Soros; Anne Bartley, former president of the Rockefeller Family Fund; Peter Lewis, founder of Progressive Insurance; Patricia Bauman, head of the Bauman Family Foundation; and Rob McKay, head of the McKay Family Foundation. Malcolm declined to say how much each committed."

On edit: typos...

[CarlBallard]

21. Good catch

I mean aside from lawers, or union officials (who republicans hate), what's the point of mentioning someone's job?

[Coffee Coyote]

24. I swear I didn't put you on that list!

Or I could claim Ken Griffey Jr. made me do it. :evilgrin:

[VolcanoJen]

26. Go Oakland...

... and I'm not about to hijack my own thread, either.

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