Republican Front Groups attack Dean. "Here They Go Again"

[mzmolly]

... The first attack came courtesy of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), a big money pro-Israel lobby group linking Jewish-American neoconservatives to the Christian Right and Israel's Likud government. On Monday the RJC began running full-page ads in major Jewish newspapers across the country featuring a large photo of militants strapped with explosives coddling a young Palestinian boy. Above that arresting image is a quote by Dean: "It's not our place to take sides." Below the photo are quotes by Democrats critical of Dean. The ad effectively equates Dean's election with the appeasement of suicide bombers.

SEE THE AD HERE: :eyes:

http://www.rjchq.org/media/pdf/DeanAd021005b.pdf

Such smears are to be expected from a group whose board of directors includes members of the Project for a New American Century, top fundraisers for the Bush campaign and former Bush officials, including press secretary Ari Fleischer. The RJC took Bush on his first tour of Israel in 1998. Evidently, Republicans hope to peel off a few more Jewish votes by distorting Dean's record.

"Two issues stand in the way of Republicans gaining a significant percentage of the Jewish vote: abortion and the religious right," GOP pollster Frank Luntz told a RJC conference in 1998. "But we have an answer. The magic word is 'Israel.'" To that end, the RJC opposed the Clinton-inspired peace process, attacked notorious anti-Semite Joe Lieberman for reaching out to Louis Farrakhan and now advocates nuclear weapons assistance to Israel and the expansion of new settlements throughout both Gaza and the West Bank.

Contrast these extremist positions with the moderate views of Dean. "We have a special relationship with Israel," Dean said after drawing fire in September 2003 for his vision of the US as an impartial broker. "We would defend Israel if necessary...However we are also the only country capable of bringing peace to the Middle East, and when we sit at the negotiating table, we do have to have the trust of both sides or we will never succeed." No left-wing peacenik, Dean recommended sending Bill Clinton as a special envoy to the region. After the RJC attack, the National Jewish Democratic Council released a fact sheet praising Dean's pro-Israel record.

More here:

http://www.njdc.org/issues/detail.php?id=429

[txaslftist]

1. Hannity hacked into Dean yesterday, claiming he has a...

..."race problem". He was discussing comments Dean made contrasting the number of blacks at a DEM meeting versus those who would be at a GOP meeting. Dean apparently said something like, "they couldn't find this many african americans for one of their conventions unless they included the hotel staff"

Hannity blew this out into "Dean is a man with a race problem" when obviously what Dean was talking about was the GOP's race problem.

We'll be hearing more of this kind of thing as Dean's positive impact on the Democrat party grows.

[mzmolly]

2. Yeah, I heard that spin somewhere. Shows you they fear the man.

:hi:

[txaslftist]

4. Xactly

Like calling Clinton or Prez Johnson a racist...

Or calling Bush a peacenik.

[cheezus]

9. replace "with" with "understands that there is"

sorry, hannity... ignoring it doesn't make it go away, it just makes it worse.

[madfloridian]

3. Here is a Yahoo story on that...needs a good rating.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=5&u=/thenation/20050216/cm_thenation/132200

[mzmolly]

5. Cool, done!

:hi:

[ladjf]

6. Criticism from Republicans is a high form of flattery.

The more they pound Dean, the better it will be for Dems and America.
Their techniques that worked during primaries won't be as successful now. The context is different. All they needed was a quick shoot down in order to allow other candidates to move ahead. They jumped on the
"scream" trick. (They used a focused microphone to isolate his voice from the din of several hundred exacted partisans. He was naturally shouting over them. But, with their sounds excluded, his tone seemed
unnatural, just as the "hit men" wanted it to.)

[Snotcicles]

7. Fraken should be going after the RJC

[LynnTheDem]

8. "Attack the messenger" when they KNOW they can't attack the message.

Just shows what frightened whiny little crybabies rightwingnuts are. No surprise.