Remember David Jones and his little 527 Osama ad against Dean? View it now.

[madfloridian]

Disclaimer: I do not have a favorite yet in this primary.

As we get into full swing of this primary season, time to remember what we are capable of doing to our own.

Here is the famous Osama ad run against Howard Dean by fellow Democrats in the primary. If you have not seen it, you need to do so. I think we are facing a primary like this again. Remember about 20 Democrats paid for this ad, and it was destructive.

http://38.113.97.196/websites/Health/images/flash/movie2.wmv
(Thanks to MyDD for the link)

Then watch the video from C-Span where one of the leaders of the 527 who ran the ad spoke. It is chilling how casual he is. David Jones short, pithy bit on what he did in Dec 2003 is about 2:57 into the program.This guy wrote, funded and produced the ads. Also, there is a Q&A question for Jones at about 3:20, listen to that as well. He says they were formed to take down Howard Dean. 2:57 and 3:20 into the video.

The link to the C-Span video is in this post from Daily Kos in 2004, referring to the 2003 ad campaign.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/7/195243/429

From some notes I kept from a blog discussion. This guy was ruthless.

David Jones is saying --
"Our main objective was taking down Howard Dean... he was so far ahead...
our concern was that maybe we couldn't fulfill our goal, but could take him
down a notch... Gore, Carter all seemed to think he was the winner, so it
looked like a cake walk for Dean - but we decided Xmas would be too over the
top - but when he was taking a dive even before the scream, it seemed too
dangerous to disclose the donors..."

C-Span was on today live with dem pacs and rep pacs on at separate times
describing what they did in the 2004 race for president. DAVID JONES,
remember that name until the day you die, formed a pac called Americans for
Jobs, Heathcare, and Progressive Values. This pac was formed with 22
undisclosed donors and $600000 dollars for the express purpose of taking Gov
Dean down. David Jones used this phrase many times and bragged about what he
did. He had previously worked for Clinton and Gore campaigns. He bragged
about this. This is the first time a pac was used to take another democrat
down in this manner. His own words. (I don't know exactly what he meant.)
This guy is bragging about the bin laden ads.

MyDD's discussion of this reminded me of the video at C-Span. It is going to get pretty rough this time....many of the same players, consultants, advisors gathering behind the scenes.