Dean's Digital Dogma:
"Pull My Progressive Pinkie"
No thanks, Howard--you're an asterisk--don't open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Posted on 08/20/2003 7:01:37 AM PDT by Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Flood the Zone Fridays, brought to you by Karl Rove George W. Bush has a new website up, and upon seeing it, you have to admit -- this is a campaign that "gets" the web. Their website consolidates many of the tools that the Democratic challengers and their supporters have been experimenting with, and they are well implemented. Particularly impressive is their Action Center, which has one the the coolest, most useful tools I've ever seen:
If you scroll about halfway down the page, you'll see a field where you can input your zip code -- once you do, you'll be given a large list of newspapers and radio shows in your area, complete with contact information for each of them. It's mighty impressive.
Well, George Bush might have some good tools, but we have the online organization -- and tools mean nothing without good, motivated activists. However, we can do a lot with those tools, and we mean to.
Matt Singer and I originally conceived of this as a project for the DDF, but we quickly realized this wasn't candidate specific -- this is for every lefty in America. So here is what we propose. We want to get a coalition together -- every influential and non-influential lefty site with the ability to direct readers and members over to the Bush action tools. And every Friday, we want to use those tools to write letters and make calls highlighting a different part of the Bush disaster. This Friday will be fiscal irresponsibility day -- where we blanket the media with calls and letters about Bush's absurd fiscal policies. We're even going to get you the info, for instance, behold the Bush Record (if you're not a Dean supporter, just ignore the stuff about Dean).
But this week, we have to pull together the players. That's where you all come in. This needs to move through the blogosphere in much the same way that the "Fair and Balanced" day did. Matt and I can get to a lot of people, but we don't know everybody and we don't have the manpower to do it on our own. So E-mail this around, or simply E-mail your favorite blog-owners and ask them to be part of "Flood the Zone" Fridays, brought to you by Karl Rove and the good folks running the Bush Campaign.
Come Friday, Matt or I will post up some talking points and sample letters, and then watch the fun begin. Lets show Rove who owns the 'net.
P.S - I am so getting audited.
Update: Lies, damn lies and statistics is in. I'm going to try and keep a list, so if you want to be part of this, let me know. Pandagon's in.
Posted by Ezra Klein
I hope Dean gets the democratic nomination. He is Rove's opponent of choicee. JEB made the mistake of going after Reno before she was officially his opponent.
No need for heavy artillery yet--so far these are just smoke bombs from the left.
Dean's Digital Dogma:
"Pull My Progressive Pinkie"
No thanks, Howard--you're an asterisk--don't open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It was actually the Rats that really went after Reno - they decided she was unelectable, and pushed her aside to make room for McDoofus.
I think they actually screwed up by doing this - the South Florida commies would have been a lot more stoked to turn out and vote for Reno than they were for some unknown trial lawyer from Tampa. As a result, they stayed home, and McDoofus got hammered. I don't say that Reno would have beaten Jeb, but I really think she would have made it a single digit (as opposed to a double digit) loss for the Rats.
Dean's spouse is a robot and his kids are drunks.
Whoops, sorry, that's another candidate whose name I forgot!
That mad, huh? Then click here to write a letter to the editor and fight back.
Dean: "See this on the end of my finger? I dug this out of my nose. It represents my moral center."
I'm sure *your* kids would never drink (But are they old enuf to smoke pot like good little "Progressives" yet, murrymommie?)
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2002/07/20020703_a_main.asp
Who is Howard Dean? Listen
Howard Dean
Howard Dean says he's running for President, and on paper he's quite a candidate.
He's the longest-serving Democratic governor. He signed the first law in the country to allow gay unions. And, he's got the endorsement of America's favorite president-that-isn't: Martin Sheen.
In real life, most Americans would pass Howard Dean on the street without a second glance. Can a candidate with just about zero national name-recognition actually make a viable run for the nation's highest office? Tonight, Howard Dean, the invisible candidate.
Yes, where is it? Dean is the stealth candidate. Don't let him take hold. For many years, he was governor of Vermont. Spending all of that time staring at cows couldn't have taken up all that much time. He probably had nothing better to do than to figure out beating GWB. Then, since January (?) he has done nothing except plot how to beat GWB.
So far, his game plan has been quite effective. What's to stop him if his supporters get beyond being influenced by bad news about Dean?
(broken record alert) I really, really don't think his name on the ballot come election day is a good idea.
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