{"id":199236,"date":"2007-08-22T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/bush-administration-running-attack-ads-against-republicans\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:41:00","slug":"bush-administration-running-attack-ads-against-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/bush-administration-running-attack-ads-against-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Administration Running Attack Ads Against….Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it appears that an Astroturf group loaded with money from Bush contributors, Freedom Watch<\/a>, is doing its bit to try to extend the war in Iraq: It’s running attack ads against Republicans who are going weak kneed on the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seriously, this is being run through either current, or former, or soon to be former *cough*<\/span> Rove *cough*<\/span>Bush political operatives.<\/p>\n

Quoting Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“For those who believe in peace through strength, the cavalry is coming,” said former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer<\/span><\/span>, who is a founding board member of the group.<\/p>\n

The big ad buy, funded by high-profile Republicans who were aides and supporters of President Bush<\/span><\/span>, reflects a furious public relations battle that will unfold as Congress debates the crucial progress report by Gen. David Petraeus, which is due Sept. 15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, there is no Petraeus report<\/a>. The Bush White House is writing the report with “input” from Petraeus.<\/p>\n

FWIW, Tom Matzzie of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq has written their spokesman, Ari Fleischer, a thank you note<\/a><\/span>, in which an analysis of the first ad buy is made, 37 targeting Republicans vs. 4 Democrats, and only one of the Democrats is not sharing a District with a Republican.<\/p>\n

BTW, one of the people that they are targeting is Mitch McConnell<\/span><\/span>, Republican leader of the Senate.<\/p>\n

This is truly a WTF moment, and typifies Bush’s idea of loyalty. Even if it does not backfire, and I think that it will, because it shows how narrow and petty Bush and His Evil Minions&trade<\/sup> are, it gets these folks voting pro-war, and makes them vulnerable.<\/p>\n

He’s crossing a line, a very big one, and it might be enough to shake some Republicans loose from mindlessly goose-stepping with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it appears that an Astroturf group loaded with money from Bush contributors, Freedom Watch, is doing its bit to try to extend the war in Iraq: It’s running attack ads against Republicans who are going weak kneed on the war. Seriously, this is being run through either current, or former, or soon to be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,978,982,1215,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-politics","category-stupid","category-the-bush-crime-family","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}