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Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush
CapitolHillBlue ^ | January 6, 2003 | By DOUG THOMPSON

Posted on 01/27/2003 11:07:57 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Democrats plan to undermine public confidence in President George W. Bush by challenging his credibility and raising doubts about America, sources within the party tell Capitol Hill Blue.

A multi-pronged attack against Republicans and the President will focus not only on economic issues, but question American values, raise doubts about how this country is viewed by other nations and question the patriotism of Bush and his party.

The extensive campaign, developed by senior Democratic consultants and party leaders, was launched last week with attacks on the Bush economic plan by Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard Gephardt.

In coming weeks, Democratic elected officials will question the President’s intentions on the pending war with Iraq. Writers and broadcasters friendly to the Democratic cause have already been provided talking points suggesting the war is about oil, not terrorism. “The talking points were developed before the end of last year and sent out to operatives and friendly media,” one Democratic consultant confided. “No Democratic member of Congress will question the President’s patriotism openly but we will use the media and other surrogates to raise doubts.”

Capitol Hill Blue obtained a copy of the talking points when the Democratic National Committee sent them to a news outlet recently acquired by CHB’s parent company. The talking points outline a strategy to raise public doubts of the President’s real intentions, including: --Saying the war is about oil and will be fought to benefit oil companies that have long supported Bush and the Republican party;

--Claiming the Bush administration has “manufactured” evidence against Saddam Hussein and used that evidence to encourage Britain and other allies to join the American fight against Iraq;

--Suggesting a wartime economy is the only way the administration can revive the country’s lagging economic situation.

“It is clear that the current approval ratings of the administration are tied directly to strong American feelings toward traditional values,” the talking points say. “To counter this, doubt must be raised as to America’s true position within the world community and the true intent of the Bush administration in waging war.”

Some Democrats admit privately they are uneasy with the party strategy to undermine American values in an attempt to get Bush.

“My boss doesn’t want anything to do with it,” one senior Senate aide told Capitol Hill Blue on Monday. “You don’t undermine this country to win elections.” Others, however, are willing to try anything to put the White House and Congress back under Democratic control. “The real war isn’t in Iraq,” one Democratic consultant said. “It’s right here at home, at the ballot box in 2004.”

Among the other points Democrats hope to make in the coming weeks:

--Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are controlled by oil and defense industry special interest groups.

--The war on terrorism is a failure because Osama bin Laden is still at large.

--America is unprepared for another terrorist attack because of White House preoccupation with Iraq. --War will increase the country’s economic woes. --Bush will be forced to raise taxes to finance the war.

“It’s time to take the battle to the people and make them understand just how dangerous George W. Bush’s policies are to the future of America,” the talking points conclude.

Democratic sources say the talking points were developed by Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Clinton campaign strategist James Carville, Senate Majority Leader Daschle and former House Democratic Leader Gephardt.

“This is a classic, Jim Carville, scorched earth campaign,” crows one DNC staffer. “Take no prisoners. That’s how you win elections.” Democratic party spokesmen would not return phone calls seeking comment on this report.

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KEYWORDS: 2004; chb; dnc; dougthompson; gwb2004; talkingpoints; treasonous
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To: JohnHuang2
--The war on terrorism is a failure because Osama bin Laden is still at large.

clintoon blew it...


"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)


____________________
"I don't believe 9-11 happened because of an intelligence breach," Quayle told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
"I think it was really a policy breach. It was the inaction of the previous administration, by and large, that al Qaeda -- and bin Laden in particular -- thought that they could hit the United States, and there would be a retaliation maybe of a cruise missile but nothing more than that," he explained.

The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.

61 posted on 01/28/2003 8:50:47 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: JohnHuang2
Democratic sources say the talking points were developed by Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Clinton campaign strategist James Carville, Senate Majority Leader Daschle and former House Democratic Leader Gephardt.

“This is a classic, Jim Carville, scorched earth campaign,” crows one DNC staffer. “Take no prisoners. That’s how you win elections.” Democratic party spokesmen would not return phone calls seeking comment on this report.


To: MeeknMing

Democrats are a strange bunch especially their leaders. They complain about politics of personnel destruction when that is how they try to divide the country. They have little pride in America, it seems that the American people serve for their pleasure only. If you don't cotton to the democratic line, you aren't American. They used the surplus for other countries and other people when there was much to do here at home. They take our best technologies and sell them to nations that will use the knowledge against us. They lack an enormous amount of integrity and don't seem to care as they flaunt sleazy ethics and morality in our faces.

We didn't have a government for the people under the Clinton administration, what we had was a Democrats Only need apply type of government and now they are attempting to replace a People's Government with their tired old arguments about an education system they didn't fix in 8 years, a health care program they messed up and couldn't fix in 8 years, a social security system they say needs fixing and did nothing about it in 8 years when in reality that system is fine as long as lawmakers don't spend the money that social security is meant for; they spent 8 years hiring federal workers with no qualifications as long as it meant a democratic vote leaving behind a dumbed down, bloated army of sleazy federal laborers who have plundered their departments of millions in dollars and equipment.

Democrats seem to have no respect, no real base from which true justice can spring, only justice that bends for them. They have no enthusiasm for country/nation, no pride, just the spoils from a rich nation for the DNC. They continue to huddle with shady and corrupt people both here in America and abroad for reasons that only benefit them. They are elitists and exclude the real Americans as they race for the Marxist Utopia they have dreamed about...where individual successes are discouraged in favor of a commune like population. They have learned nothing from failed socialism or failed communism; they still want to live like kings all the while painting a glowing picture of togetherness for the masses who work for them. It is called Slavery, servitude to a few at the top, domination over the people through higher taxes and rules and regulations. Democrats want a Unionized nation/world of bondage and they can surely have it by dividing the country with the deceptive lies they and the press propagandize with daily.

Stand tall Americans and stand firmly for the principals of our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, both of which are like the fabled Vampires silver cross or spike to the leading democrats, they don't want you to have either; it is these people who would return this country to the quagmire of corruption of the Clinton/Gore/Reno years.

12 posted on 7/30/02 8:42 AM Central by yoe


It seems like the 'RATS are movin' more and more left...

http://sp-usa.org/



http://socialist.org/base.html




62 posted on 01/28/2003 8:54:39 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: MeeknMing
This thing needs to be bumped to high heaven. Every patriotic American needs to finally come to the complete understanding that these pukes care more for power than they do for our country.
63 posted on 01/28/2003 11:24:57 AM PST by EternalVigilance (abort NARAL!)
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To: Howlin; rintense; ohioWfan; homeschool mama
Did you see this?
64 posted on 01/28/2003 12:59:18 PM PST by hoosiermama (Let's roll!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Yep. A ping wouldn't hurt...
65 posted on 01/28/2003 1:14:32 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: JohnHuang2; EternalVigilance; Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; ...
Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush

Short article, worth a read. Please bump...


Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

66 posted on 01/28/2003 1:18:00 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: JohnHuang2
Right-on!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!
67 posted on 01/28/2003 1:32:10 PM PST by blackie
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To: DB; MeeknMing
I pray it blows up in their face big time.

Me, too. Lord, let their own works betray them, because they rely upon the schemes of men and not the righteousness of God.

But Lord, let America herself, and all her honorable aims and all her patriots, be preserved, and protected from this explosion.

In Jesus' Name. Amen.

68 posted on 01/28/2003 1:57:11 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: blackie
Well these are 'people' (I use the term loosly) who support and admire a rapist.

This comes as no suprise at all. The ad being run by the Bozo from Ben & Jerry's, Stristrand & Sarandon is no doubt part of this program (the Not in our Name crowd).
69 posted on 01/28/2003 2:00:25 PM PST by Leto
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To: JohnHuang2
This is why I get infuriated when Bush extends the olive branch to any of the Dems. Not only do they never reciprocate, they'll screw Bush every chance they get.
70 posted on 01/28/2003 2:09:11 PM PST by Paulie
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To: .30Carbine
And amen.
71 posted on 01/28/2003 2:50:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance (abort NARAL!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country---and obviously this is also the time for all evil men and women to come to the aid of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Yassir Arafat, Bill Clinton and James Carville. May they burn in hell for joining in the attempt to destroy America simply to score cheap political points.

"If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists."

72 posted on 01/28/2003 2:57:09 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: HIDEK6
I have no qualms about calling them traitors.
73 posted on 01/28/2003 2:58:10 PM PST by EternalVigilance (abort NARAL!)
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To: EternalVigilance
Ever since LBJ, that's what I have thought.
74 posted on 01/28/2003 3:10:06 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: Just mythoughts
Danny Boy apparently is not coming. ha ha

Darn! I wish he would be there. Is it that he hates the President, or could he possibly be ashamed of being 'corrected' on something!!? LOL

75 posted on 01/28/2003 3:40:03 PM PST by potlatch (The Clinton Legacy; SEX BETWEEN THE BUSHES)
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To: JohnHuang2
And a BUMP to you too! I finally HAD to go to bed!!!
76 posted on 01/28/2003 3:43:56 PM PST by potlatch (The Clinton Legacy; SEX BETWEEN THE BUSHES)
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To: MeeknMing
The Fifth Column

As our country
Moves towards war
The Democratic Party
Becomes a whore

Carville, Begala
Clinton's wife
McAuliffe's cohort
Sowing strife

Pelosi and Daschle
Satan's Orc crew
In order to win
Would destroy me and you

Lying profusely
No slander too small
If they can't have power
They'll betray us all

Useful fools
Across the land
Believe their lies
And give them a hand

Defeat them we must
Posterity's future depends
On what we are going
To willingly spend

Battle with truth
Lady Liberty's light
Like never before
May every patriot fight!

EV
77 posted on 01/28/2003 3:53:01 PM PST by EternalVigilance (abort NARAL!)
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To: EternalVigilance
That's one thing people like Hannity (and the President) have to get over. Every time these people say something treasonous and get called on it they screech "I resent your impugning of my patriotism", and the pubbies back down... "Ohh...Ohhh... I wasn't impugning your patriotism.

Time to say "I calls 'em like I sees 'em. Tell me why I SHOULDN'T call you a traitor after you spew such a vile anti-americanism."

Many of these people need to be in jail and impeached from whatever offices they hold. When the war really gets going, perhaps that will happen. Remember, we ain't seen nothing yet. Nobody in 1943 knew how WWII was going to turn out either.

Also -- I think the dims are in league with the UN in wanting us to fall so the UN can take over the world.
78 posted on 01/28/2003 4:06:02 PM PST by johnb838 (deconstruct the left)
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To: EternalVigilance
Good job. You nailed it...

79 posted on 01/28/2003 4:41:20 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (9 out of 10 Republicans agree: Bush IS a Genius !!)
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To: JohnHuang2
I long for the time when information such as this would have sickened me.

The innocence of regarding Democrats with a raised eyebrow, and shaking my head thinking how foolish these people can sometimes behave is forever in the distant past.

I now know what these people are really about...but I cannot really remember when the process of their hatred for us began; or why.

I suppose it doesn't matter now, but there must be something of value to be learned from this shameful behavior by so very many of our fellow citizens.
80 posted on 01/28/2003 4:44:29 PM PST by Bennett46
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