My e-mail from Ed Gillespie (snort!) Repubs worried about Dem attacks.

[janekat]

I signed up to get e-mails from the RNC - to keep track of what they're up to (ya gotta keep track of your enemies). Guess I'm now a "Republican Leader" bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! (Boy - does that show desperate THEY are!)

anyhoo...

We can see what their upcoming strategy will be from this - so it might be well worth reading. Apparently they're worried because the Dems are going to be attacking them in the next few weeks:

Quote:
"Democrat House leaders have declared a four-week offensive against Republican policies and Senate leaders have announced they will step up their abuse of the filibuster, to an unprecedented level of obstructionism.:

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TO: RNC Members and Republican Leaders
FR: Ed Gillespie

According to Democratic pollster Mark Penn, only 32% of voters now identify themselves as Democrats, the lowest percentage EVER. As the Democrat Party gets smaller, it becomes more liberal, elitist and angry. And as it becomes more liberal, elitist and angry, it gets smaller.

Early primary voters are more intensely liberal than even most self-identified Democrats, and as Democratic presidential contenders appeal to this active minority within their shrinking party, they adopt policies further and further outside the political mainstream.

Over the next four weeks, they will provide us a wonderful opportunity to illuminate the clarity between our positive policies and leadership versus their protest and pessimism.

Highlight the choices that are becoming increasingly clear on:

1. Jobs. Every Democrat running for President is for raising taxes.
2. National security.
3. Homeland security. When it comes to winning the War Against Terror, the President's critics are adopting a policy that will make us more vulnerable in a dangerous world. Specifically, they now reject the policy of preemptive self-defense and would return us to a policy of reacting to terrorism in its aftermath.

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-continued-

[CWebster]

1. Sounds hauntingly similar to the

DLC.

[wryter2000]

5. OMG

I wasn't paying attention, and I thought it was from the DLC.

[flpoljunkie]

2. The scoop from the Penn survey on the Rethugs...

shows that among all voters, it goes like this:


Democrats 32%
Republicans 30%
Independents 40%

Mr. RNC neglected to mention the percentage of the electorate who identify themselves as Rethugs!

[lovedems]

6. My thoughts exactly.

When I was reading the post I thought that doesn't make any sense because they are calling for a close pres. race again which would mean the country is still pretty evenly divided!

I would like to think that the party is getting bigger after 3 years of rethuglicans completely destroying our wonderful nation every which way possible. I am optimistic!

[flpoljunkie]

11. Independents are 38%, not the 40% indicated above.

Wanted to correct the error, as I could no longer edit the post.

[CWebster]

3. Although janekat

Here is a little tidbit to tie in subjects and add to the Tweety luv scrapbook. He did a pretty good job of stumbling up Mr. Republican man, Ed last night. Twas amusing while it lasted.

[janekat]

4. More: they want to use partial birth abortion, class action reform, judges

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Kennedy and Clinton, and presidential aspirants John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman voted with the extreme of their party, and John Edwards and Dick Gephardt couldn't make time for the vote.

Highlight the party of protest.
Senate Democrats continue their stubborn obstruction of important legislation to create jobs (i.e., class action reform last week, perhaps energy policy next) and qualified judicial nominees not tolerated by the extreme elements they increasingly represent. They lost control of the Senate in 2002 after pursuing the same approach they pursue now, and we are likely to gain seats next year as a result.

Highlight the party of political hate speech.
The Presidential candidates have now called President Bush a "miserable failure," a "liar," compared him to a "gang leader" and to Saddam Hussein himself. At one point in a recent debate, Howard Dean counseled his fellow candidates, "Let's remember, George W. Bush is the enemy here." We are a nation at war, and they think the President of the United States is "the enemy."

Americans instinctively know that anyone who's willing to demean the presidency in order to gain it is not worthy of having it entrusted to him.

[T Roosevelt]

7. No. Americans have lost their political instincts.

Otherwise we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.

Americans instinctively know that anyone who's willing to demean the presidency in order to gain it is not worthy of having it entrusted to him.

[HFishbine]

8. What a crock!

"rding to Democratic pollster Mark Penn, only 32% of voters now identify themselves as Democrats."

Yeah, and according to the same poll, only 30% of voters identify themselves as republican.

http://www.ndol.org/documents/PennPoll_0703.pdf

[emulatorloo]

9. Let me commend you for your bravery

for signing up and submitting your mailbox to Eddie's spin. I hope your spam filter will be up to handling the other BS the RNC will forward you.

But if this is the best they can do, we are going to be in pretty good shape for 2004.

[janekat]

10. They don't send many e-mails - get a lot more from the DNC, Dem orgs

I have about 4 e-mail accounts...