BUSH TEAM VIEWS DEMOCRATIC FIELD AS 'UNUSUALLY WEAK'Bush Team Views Democ

[pippin]

Sun Sep 28 2003 19:57:47 ET

" President Bush's senior advisers describe the Democratic field as unusually weak heading in to the coming election year, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report in a Page One splash.

"Each of them has relative strengths and weaknesses, but happily for us, in each case the relative weaknesses outweigh the relative strengths," Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tells the TIMES.

"They're all Howard Dean now. They have adopted harsh, bitter, personal attacks as their approach. They are a party of protest and pessimism and offer no positive agenda of their own."

Team Bush has delayed the start of running any advertising until a single Democrat is selected."

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"We expect it to be a hard-fought, close election in a country narrowly divided," Karl Rove tells the TIMES. "When a Democratic nominee is finally selected, our expectation is that it could be a close and hard-fought race."

Like the Democrats, the Bush campaign is convinced that the election of 2004 could once again turn on a relative handful of votes in key states. "
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm


Sounds like panicky spin to me

[grasswire]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=427468


Not that dupes are bad.

[Raenelle]

2. They are liars. If they lie about important things like war,

they will lie about anything if it suits them.

[Maple]

3. Well they're not going to say

'Gosh, 10 really great people...what a challenge!' :D

If they actually thot the field was weak, they wouldn't have said anything.

The game is to 'label' the other, before they 'label' you.

Create an image in people's minds.

Use words like 'weak' 'joke' 'loser'... and see what sticks.

[diplomats]

6. It's interesting that Gillespie describes the field as

"unusually weak" but then Rove says it's going to be a close election. Doesn't say much for Bush if he can't put distance between himself and a "weak" field. BTW, our candidate will have a positive agenda - count on it.

[proud patriot]

4. I'm locking this duplicate

Please continue here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=427468

Thanks :hi:
proud patriot
DU Moderator

[TSIAS]

5. Dupe

Please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=427468

Thanks,
Taylor :)
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