Ralph Reed: GOP Gains on the Line in '04

[Noordam]

AP NEWS

September 22, 2003
Ralph Reed: GOP Gains on the Line in '04
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 8:45 a.m. ET

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Everything Republicans have gained in the past decade is on the line next year, said Ralph Reed, southeastern regional chairman for President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

``We are going to be in for the fight of our lives,'' Reed told the National Federation of Republican Women's convention Sunday. ``This is going to be a national effort. We are going to have to go wherever and whenever to do what we have to do.''

Reed, former leader of the Christian Coalition, is a campaign consultant based in Atlanta. He also manages the president's re-election campaign in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

He encouraged the nearly 1,300 GOP women gathered in Salt Lake City to work harder, longer and more creatively than their counterparts in the Democratic Party.

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[NashVegas]

1. "Do What We Have to Do"

I am reminded of the scene in The Two Towers at Helm's Deep - "show them no mercy, for you will receive none from them."

[joeybee12]

3. He's scum, but we need someone like him to fire us up!

Politics has gone past being a bloodsport--it's now war!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. If we need anything besides selection 2000- Jeb, Kathy, and shrub

then god help us if our memories are that short.

[ameriphile]

12. This is today's conservative philosophy

Whether it be by waging smear campaigns, by disenfranchising voters, or by threatening civil liberties, they seek to obtain power at any cost.

At any cost.

[dusty64]

2. I'm sure they will

"We are going to have to go wherever and whenever to do what we have to do.''" and thats what concerns me. Wonder how many meetings ralph has had with diebold and es&s lately?

[thinkahead]

4. This is my favorite lie

He said that if voters had gone to the polls three days earlier in 2000, Bush could have swept into office, but Democrats managed to get their voters to the polls and the two parties ended up battling for the presidency in Florida.

What happened, Reed said, was Democratic grass-roots organizing.

"Democrats don't believe the real campaign begins until the Friday before the election," he said. "Everything before then is an intramural exercise.

Yeah there's no grass-roots organizing going on. Not even a year before the election.

They are scared - and they should be.

Not to mention it's kind of funny that GOPers are still so blatantly taking marching orders from Enron Ralph.

[mac56]

13. "Enron Ralph"! Brilliant!

We have to use this name over and over!

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Reed knows how to manipulate his people.

He knows how to tweak them. But Enron is his Achilles heel.

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. I'm not sure about the creative part

unless he means dirty tricks, the Republican speciality.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Exactly what he means

Can't win an election on the issues, Lie Cheat and Steal, what ever it takes.

[bambo53]

6. I want to have Ralphs baby

What was the name of that 60s movie with Mia Farro in it?
That's what I think of whenever I see him... hmm

[TexasEditor]

8. Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes Director: Roman Polanski

[Racenut20]

7. This bag of scum

700 club boy/Enron boy/Georgia smear boy....Needs to be exposed for what he really is. Another of them hiding behind the flag and the Bible.

[bushisanidiot]

9. Just Like Utah To have some patriarch tell a women's group

what they should be doing. Can't they run their own convention?

[0007]

18. Buck Flush

[indypaul]

10. Ill Gotten gains are

seldom retained by the recipient, it is, thank God, a part of
the balance of nature. I hope Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief and this
little weezle continue to bond. Another thing about nature is
that misery loves company. Ralph Reed's actions in Georgia in
2002 should have convinced everyone of this man's inability to
be a part of the human race. He is beyond contempt and the man
for whom he is working is rapidly sinking to the same level.

[BeFree]

14. GOP on the run

Thing is Elephants don't run very well. The best they can do is throw their weight around. Ever see an elephant scared of a RAT? It's funny.

This campaign is gonna be fun. We RATS have already got the attention of the elephants and now all we gotta do is tweak 'em just right. My only worry is what they will do to the landscape when they get scared.

Maybe it's a good thing we wait till the last moment... that way they won't think they have to do "..whatever it takes..."

[buckfush2]

15. "encouraged these women to work harder"

within the confines of their homemaking, I am sure

[0007]

17. God! I forgot all about this little

thieving lying so-called religious prick. I thought after the Enron scam he would disappear for good. I'm wrong again!

[JHB]

20. Disappear? During the Reign of the Living Dead?

There's no end to what oozes up from the muck to join or support this administration. Elliot Abrams in a Human Rights post! Newt is a consultant! Even the ghost of Joe McCarthy's been brought back.