Posted on 07/25/2004 3:28:16 PM PDT by Maria S
Democrat party officials are struggling to contain the amount of anti-Bush and anti-war comments to be delivered this week during the convention in Boston, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
DNC chair Terry McAuliffe has expressed concern that nonstop Bush bashing from the podium could quickly spiral out of control and backfire.
DNC staffers have also been told to be on the lookout for "unreasonable" Bush bashing signs held by delegates on the convention floor which could be highlighted on television.
"We are not Michael Moore," McAuliffe has told his top staffers, according to a well-placed source. "Let's tell the voters what we stand for, not only what we stand against."
McAuliffe has reportedly given orders to senior staff that hard-core Bush bashing should be saved for other forums and surrogates.
"Of course there will be a fair amount of pointing out the president's record," a top party source explained from Boston.
Top Kerry strategist Bob Shrum is also warning not to turn the convention into a default Hate Bush rally.
But the temptation to rip Bush without mercy is proving to be too much for many of the speakers.
Kerry operatives are editing convention speeches, sources say, with only Al Gore and Ted Kennedy believed to be off-limits.
[The move is reminiscent of Nixon at the 1968 convention in Miami, when the campaign edited out anti-war liberal Republicans.]
Developing...
Terry, just tell us you're against decency and leave it at that. We'll believe you!
LOL, just like a FR troll.
Al Gore and Ted Kennedy "off-limits"? Oh, well, then, there certainly shouldn't be any Bush-bashing!
Al Gore has got to be excstatic over this. I can hear him mumbling now..."They like me, they NEED me...! I'm not a loser after all...
Old playbook + new media = Post Dem convention Bush bump
Now that's a real American platform to run on: "We won't Bash Bush this week. It keeps us strong against the terrorists, will grow jobs by 5,000%, and all Americans will be better off for everyone, including the UN memebers and every creature on the Planet Earth, for the next 12,000 years..."
These people want to make me expel dinner.
Fox just showed a fight break out a moment ago.
The convention hasnt even started and they are at each other!
Now that all the speeches have been edited, we find that we have time for a LOT more speakers.
This will be the most entertaining comedy of the season. An entire stadium filled with weirdos, freaks, psych patients, sexual perverts and criminally insane...all brought together just to enterain us. It will surely provide for some great material here on FR.
They can't help themselves. After issuing a standard disclaimer they wouldn't be Bush bashing--or at least devoting themselves to it--They clearly are revving up for a total immersion of "We hate George Bush and you should, too!!!"
The Wellstone funerally will look like a model of decorum compared to this convention, I'll bet.
Well, Stainman exhibited that trait when he was, (as Rush would say), in the Oral Office.
*ping*
I'm amazed that anyone could be undecided but apparently the dims figure they are out there somewhere.
We tried to listen to Kerry explain his "healthcare" and we both just sat looking at one another. He lost us. Talk about boring you to death but the main point is that Kerry doesn't know anything about healthcare.
No! No! Go for it! ;-)
But the temptation to rip Bush without mercy is proving to be too much for many of the speakers.
Yes! Yes! ;-)
When I think Democrats, I think...
Wellstone funeral: "WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!"
Gore meltdown: "HE BETRAYED THIS COUNTRY! HE PLAYED
ON OUR FEARS!!"
Shrillary: "I AM SICK AND TIRED of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic," a shrill-sounding Clinton shouted during her address to Connecticut's Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner.
"We should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration," she shrieked. (source: NewsMax.com)
Jesse Jackson: "America, stay out the Bushes!" (sic)
Michael Moore: "We like fiction and we live in fictitious
times where we elect a fictitious president..."
Howard Dean: "Yeaaarrrgggggh!"
etc.
The world's shortest convention....
Why stop now I ask?
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