Great Read: Kerry bring McCain Aide John Weaver to Campaign

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp

<>Referring to the Bush campaign, Mr. Weaver told The Observer: "They’re going to drop pianos on Kerry’s head. It’s going to be very distasteful, and you’re going to see as negative a campaign as you’ve ever seen on the Bush side."

<>Regardless of who becomes Mr. Kerry’s running mate, the 43-year-old Mr. Weaver is unusually qualified to understand, and anticipate, Mr. Bush’s re-election campaign. Before he signed on to Mr. McCain’s underfunded, maverick bid four years ago, he worked for two decades in the trenches of Texas Republican politics. He served as executive director of the Texas Republican Party and ran the Texas arm of George H.W. Bush’s 1988 Presidential campaign. He grew so close to Karl Rove—now the President’s senior adviser—that the two thought of going into business together in the 1980’s before they had a bitter falling-out.

<>"They had a campaign without a moral compass," Mr. Weaver said. "Campaigns set tones, and they could have stopped all that if they wanted to, at the very least."

<>But he’s also telling Mr. Kerry to stay on offense, because Mr. Rove will play for keeps.

"That would be my warning to the Kerry folks: If they did that on the road to the kingdom, what do you think they’re going to do to keep it?"

[grannylib]

1. Rock Freakin' On...this is great, to get an insider who knows Rove and

his filthy tricks inside and out; it is particularly gratifying to see the acknowledgement that the Chimp Cabal is essentially morally bankrupt.
GO FUCKIN' GET THE BASTARDS AND GIVE ME BACK MY COUNTRY!!!

[napi21]

2. No doubt * will remain very negative, but....

since this is only March, I think the only thing this will accomplish will be to keep the strong * supporters STRONG, energize the Kerry supporters, and tick off those in the middle.

7 1/2 months of this stuff will get aggravating to a lot of people.

My biggest concern is that a lot of those aggravated people will become so disgusted, they will just stay home in Nov.

We need to figure out how to keep them disgusted with * and really want to see him and his crowd GONE!