Schwarzenegger hires Bush aides but stays distant from president

[Judi Lynn]

Schwarzenegger hires Bush aides but stays distant from president
By LAURA KURTZMAN, Associate Press Writer

Saturday, April 1, 2006

(04-01) 09:04 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) --

Despite his rocky relationship with the White House, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has surrounded himself with a team of former Bush aides to run his re-election campaign.

The latest addition came this week with veteran Republican ad man Alex Castellanos, a master of political attacks who helped Bush's 2004 campaign team transform Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., from a war hero into weakling in the eyes of many voters.

Choosing such a partisan team might seem an odd fit for a candidate like Schwarzenegger, whose re-election hopes rest on winning back the very voters who have turned so sharply away from the president. Bush lost California by more than a million votes in 2004.

But given Schwarzenegger's vulnerability this year, some analysts say he was shrewd to hire consultants who know how to eviscerate the opposition when their own candidate is weak.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/01/politics/p090444S24.DTL



Alex Castellanos is the right-wing Cuban-American genius who created
the underhanded "DemocRATS" "subliminable" crap for a _Bush tv commercial.

[rocktivity]

1. All together, now--BWAH HA HA HA HA HA!

He's keeping his "distance" from Bush by hiring the people who helped put him in office??? There must be a liberal "mole" on his campaign staff!

:rofl:
rocknation

[AndyTiedye]

7. Groper is Still Bush**'s Bitch. The "Moderate" Facade is Just for Show

Of course he's hiring consultants from the BFEE.

They'll have access to all the NSA wiretap stuff to use in the campaign,
and plenty of experience making stuff up out of whole cloth to mix
in with it (aka "Swift-Boating").

[jwirr]

2. Fooled is once!

[rocktivity]

3. You're right, Jwirr--this has GOT to be another DU April Fool's Day joke!

Hey, mods--this thread ought to locked!

:rofl:
rocknation

[natrat]

5. he's hiring scumbags who will go along with fraud nt

[robertarctor]

4. It ain't an April fools joke

And you know these Nazi pricks may be down in the polls, but they're well capitalized and they're going to give it the full court press.

[tularetom]

6. I looked in the dictionary

and next to the words "used car salesman", I found that guy's picture.