CRAWFORD RANCH IS FAKE, why not push this story harder?

[Son of California]

it attacks Bush right at the heart: his legitimacy among Southerners and Midwesterners as a good old fashioned country boy "just like us."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1992638

check it out, great story on the fakeness of the Crawford Ranch.
total props to the people that dug this up.

I'm really shocked that this story has not received more attention, and I'm wondering why we weren't hammering it home during the 04 election.

I believe that the Crawford Ranch is an integral part of Bush's down-home country boy shtick, and it would do amazing damage to his credibility among his base to reveal this full on.

Can you feel it folks? The Country is at a tipping point right now. The Pendulum IS about to swing the other way. The timing couldn't be better to get a story like this going, with him actually being on the "Ranch" (its not even a real fucking ranch) and the whole Sheehan story bubbling up.

Let's keep this story going: lets go on the Repub sites and tease them about it till they start making up a bunch of cheesy rebuttals and bring the story even more attention. I have no doubt we can get this on the cable news channels if we try hard enough.

the Blue Revolution is coming, and there is nothing they can do about it.

[dooner]

1. I agree.

I've known what they show on TV was fake from the beginning, and always thought it was bizarre. They WANT people to think those outbuildings represent Bush's lifestyle. The real, man of the people.

I don't know how many are falling for the fakery, but it should be pointed out.

[cap]

5. bush doesnt even own those outbuildings

that's the NEIGHBOR'S property

[dooner]

13. Really? n/t

[kitkat65]

2. Crawford Compound perhaps? Great place to hole up if those rumoured

indictments are true.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Here are pics. It is pretty well known that it was bought and set up just

before the 2000 election. And since Dimson is terrified of the big scary horsies there aren't any on the "ranch".

[Algorem]

4. "Prairie Chapel"

God damned piece of dirt.

[ClintonTyree]

12. Dust...........

it doesn't even qualify as dirt I don't think. You'd have to be able to grow something in it if it WAS dirt, it appears to be pretty barren in most spots.

bushie owns a DUST FARM! bush is a dust farmer! Some image, huh? :eyes:

This has been bush's entire life, a sham. A sham education at Yale where he got "gentleman's C's", a sham TANG record, a sham business record where everything he touched turned to crap, a sham minority ownership of the Texas Rangers where he then raped the taxpayers after the team was sold, a sham Governorship that made Texas the most polluted and "killing" State in the Union, a sham election that saw him installed as the President by his Dad's buddies in the Supreme Court, a sham second term that he may not even finish if he FINALLY gets his just desserts! A sham, his ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN A CARDBOARD FACADE! :grr:

That people like this are in charge of our country speaks volumes about our "Democracy" :eyes: or positive lack thereof.

Yes, bush pisses me off. He's a fake, a phony a nothing.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Here's an NPR puff piece that will make you puke:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4785289

[pointblank]

29. OMG

"When it comes to his ranch he takes pride in being a hands on cowboy and rancher"


Unbelieveable!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

30. Yeah. And I liked the "It's unfair to call it a vacation" part...

And "Mr. Bush can never escape the terrible burdens of his office."

:wow:

[emcguffie]

7. That's a very good idea.

Very clever. Tease them into responding. Reacting. Being reactinoary and defensive. That's what they have done to us, so well, for so long.

[anarchy1999]

8. Jim Hightower spoke last night at the Veterans For Peace Convention

and he ripped Bush and his "ranch" to shreds. It's not a ranch, it's a "ranchette". There were several videotaping so I know his talk will be availalbe soon.

I've seen him many times and last night was one of his best ever. He was on a roll!

[joems]

9. Terraserver.com Image..

http://terraserver.com/cart/preview_image2.asp?ulx=-97.54654555328621&uly=31.58355730795543&lrx=-97.54179702533061&lry=31.57938260892377&cpx=-97.54408649416635&cpy=31.581395410242607&provider_id=320&res=0.6096&size=750&id=0

[FreedomAngel82]

10. It is a fake

I remember reading how Bush bought the place because he wanted to appeal to voters and all that. :eyes: It's so lame.

[dooner]

14. but what the heck goes on there for 5 weeks at a time!

doesn't look like there's a whole hell of a lot to do!!

ride bike, fall off
hike, get too hot
fish, no challenge, it's a stocked pond
swim, that's for the girls

[PATRICK]

11. Energy alternative

technology and conservation devices(at least for the house) are very state of the art, but not ready for the commoners. I once tried to make this point after reading a specialized magazine on architecture bubbling over the modern, green aspects of the ranch. No one else took that naive tack potentially embarrassing to the Great Neanderthal fossil fools enjoying the fruits of technology they are suppressing elsewhere.

[pretzel4gore]

16. texas has the strictest auto emission standards in country(!)

something weird about the phoniness inherent in so much usa politics

[tocqueville]

15. satellite pic high res

http://cryptome.org/bush-ranch.htm

[Son of California]

17. looks nothing like a fucking ranch

thanks by the way for the pick

I'm telling ya' this needs to be our new heckle for the freepers this next month while he's there:

ITS NOT EVEN A REAL FUCKING RANCH, RETARDS!

[QC]

18. It's not a ranch--it's a country estate. n/t

[B Calm]

19. Where's the Beef?

All ranches have cattle....

[justgamma]

20. Shrub once invited a dignitary

to come down and see his "cows". That was a dead giveaway.

[GoldenOldie]

21. He and Pickles are already looking into city digs

when they leave DC.

This isn't even a gentlemen's ranch......It's Georgie's way of getting away from the Public, protestors and honest journalists and also attempting to make Americans and specifically Texans think that he is just one of them.

[Son of California]

25. oh man!

hahaha.

[ladjf]

22. It is a live in "theatrical set".

[jmowreader]

27. He has a BOARDROOM in his house!

I once saw (in one of the RW rags--Time, I think it was) a photo of Bush standing in the boardroom that's in his house.

Now let me ask you something, DU friends: exactly how many people do you know who have a boardroom in their homes? I know some seriously rich people--doctors mostly, a couple of executives--and none of them have boardrooms in their houses. My sister doesn't have a boardroom in her house, and she's head buyer for Christmas seasonal at Kmart. The woman lives in boardrooms and airplanes and she doesn't have a boardroom in her house.

Ronald Reagan never had a boardroom in his house. Clinton didn't have one.

But Bush has one in his.

What's wrong here?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Fake ranch, fake pResident, what else is new??? n/t

[OneBlueSky]

24. the only thing about Bush that's NOT fake is . . .

all the people who have been killed by his policies and misadventures . . . they are, unfortunately, all too real . . . just ask Cindy Sheehan . . .

[Lisa]

26. I thought it was funny that, after bragging about how he grew up ...

... in West Texas, and therefore knows so much more about the value of water than those of us from the coasts -- Bush promptly built an expensive artificial bass pond (which partly dried out and got so hot that many of the fish he'd stocked promptly died!). His favorite parts of that property are the pond, the waterfall, and the bits in the gullies that have trees. I think that Bush imprinted on the East Coast landscape as a child, and is subconsciously trying to re-create it in Texas.

It's particularly significant that he didn't feel like gushing about how beautiful the land was, until he'd signed the purchase agreement. In his mind, you can't truly love the country until you are wealthy enough to have a bit of paper that says you own it. I guess the rest of us who have to make do with national parks and such are simply incapable of understanding the environment.

[tiptoe]

28. kick n/t