Josh Marshall in Talking Points Memo on last minute negative mailings

[snyttri]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_01_18.html#002484

(January 24, 2004 -- 08:03 PM EDT // link // print)

In the final days before a big election there's a sudden digging in for final advantage that you can start to see everywhere you look. A friend told me this evening about a mailing the Kerry campaign is sending out --- a pretty glossy, done-up thing, it seems --- attacking Wes Clark on several fronts, including his work as a lobbyist and his past support for Republicans.

I saw what might be another example of that when I went by the new Volunteer Operations Center the Dean campaign just set up to coordinate canvassing and get out the vote efforts for the campaign.

In the words of the campaign …
Dean volunteers in Manchester will now be exclusively organized from the brand new Volunteer Operations Center at 1111 Elm Street. Dean volunteers will continue to be the best organized in the Granite State because they remember why they started working for a little known Governor from a small state with no money and the odds stacked against him: He brought hope. And still does.

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Taped to the wall at the Operations Center, near stacks of other flyers and hand-out materials, was a red-meat-laden flyer headlined “Could Kerry Beat Bush in November?: Please ask the hard electability questions before it is too late.”

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[IndianaGreen]

1. Kerry is a filthy campaigner, just like his Bonesman pal Bush

It was quite a trick for Kerry to appear to take the high road in Iowa while collaborating with Gephardt in the murder/suicide of Dean.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. This is nothing

I have my favorites (several, altho Clark is now first among them). But this is not a game for wussies. Dean handled the attacks well, Clark also, bot they all attack each other in one way or another. Dean attacks the others also. Like it or not, this is how it works, and if any of them decide to run to the teacher with tears of outrage they are not fit to win. If Kerry wins this brawl, more power to him. Or if it is Dean or Edwards or Clark, good for them. I don't expect a whole lot from any of them, but I very much hope and expect that any of them would give us some hope for a better future. Not Nirvana, but better than Armageddon.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Don't worry, IG, you'll grow to like him.

Honorable liberal Democrats, who are war heros, are real leaders and have a tendency to do that to people....

Think JFK .... :-)