Ya gotta love David Wade & DNC response to the RNC "Kerropoly" game

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13475-2004Jun3.html

Kerry campaign spokesman David Wade responded: "Boneheaded attacks from this bunch are as insulting as they are ironic. It's downright hypocritical coming from the campaign of a president whose connections got him into a 'Champagne Unit' of the National Guard during Vietnam and whose path was paved with privilege from Andover to Arbusto oil to the Texas Rangers…This guy who was born on third base and thought he hit a triple is going to engage in a sad game of class warfare? . . . I don't think a lot of Americans remember Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy because of where they came from, they remember them for what they did to make America stronger. Good luck finding Americans who think that way about George
Bush."

The DNC e-mailed the following statement this week:

"Yesterday the Republican National Committee, chaired by Ed Gillespie (whose lobbying firm collected at least $27 million from corporate clients like Enron in the two years before he became RNC chair), unveiled a new internet game poking fun at the personal finances of John Kerry.

"It is unclear whether the campaign of George Walker Bush (son of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and grandson of Connecticut Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush) and Dick Cheney (worth between $24 million - $107 million; former Chairman and CEO of Halliburton who received a $20 million retirement package to run for vice president) has endorsed this line of attack. Bush (a CT-born Yankee who summered in Kennebunkport, Maine, and attended the Kinkaid school in Houston before moving to Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he became head cheerleader and earned the nickname the Lip from his chums for his rapier wit), was unavailable for comment."

[sundancekid]

1. loved it myself ...

... btw, we should let Wade know that the "third base" quote should be properly credited to Jim Hightower (who used it about his father, I believe) ...

[Catfight]

2. Kerry collects 200, passes Go: Bush collects 2 million, straight to jail!

[AP]

3. Exactly the right message. Call class warfare class warfare. Don't let the

republicans define it (incorrectly). And if you want to talk about inherited privilege, well, let's talk.