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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 03:57 PM
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George W. Bush yesterday said that he was not "gonna spend most of my time attacking my opponent — I've got too much good to talk about." DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe responded by sending the following letter to RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie:

Dear Ed,

After hearing your Presidential nominee say yesterday that he will not engage nor apparently condone any negative attacks on John Kerry, I wanted to extend my congratulations to you and the Republican National Committee. It certainly is never easy to make a 180 degree strategy change in the middle of a campaign. And I have to admit it takes a lot of guts to publicly admit that waging the most negative campaign in history and spending $80 million dollars to vilify John Kerry with unfounded attacks was the wrong strategy to adopt.

Since we keep track of the negative tactics of the RNC and the Bush-Cheney campaign, I thought I would submit to a gentle reminder of some remains of your old, abandoned strategy that you will want to clean up so as not to distract from all the "good" things you have to talk about.

Get new talking points to all your surrogates so they know there is "too much good" to talk about now, and no more time should be wasted on attacking John Kerry and John Edwards. In light of the squeezed middle class here at home and a tarnished American reputation abroad, I would recommend getting your research team right on the hunt for that supposed "good" stuff.

Stop throwing money down the negative ad drain on spots that focus completely on attacking John Kerry and offer no Bush vision or agenda.

Go ahead and close your "war room" office in Boston, and abandon your plans to lob attacks at Democrats and John Kerry during our Convention.

Dismantle those many attack sections of your website and take down the so-called "games" that, are, in reality, just cheap shots against John Kerry.

We at the DNC are very excited to see where this new strategy takes you. We can't wait for that one ad you manage to string together with positive material, and of course we are expecting much shorter stump speeches, and maybe even some speechless talking heads! Cheers to your new strategy, and good luck in this brave new endeavor.

Sincerely,

Terry R. McAuliffe
Chairman

http://www.democrats.org/blog/display/00010815.html
Democratic National Committee

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Melodybe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 04:02 PM
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1. Damn! I love Democrats with backbones, way to go Terry!
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Soth Donating Member (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 04:03 PM
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2. Boo-yah!
Cheers to Terry! That letter is frickin' hilarious.

Republican response should be something along the lines of:

"Look, you Democrats should know by now that the President never does what he says he'll do."

Of course, it won't be, but ah well.
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Meldread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 04:09 PM
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3. Where was this Terry a few years ago?
Where was he in 2002? Where was he in 2003? And most importantly: Will he be sticking around?
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22181 Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 04:15 PM
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4. Dude! Terry got some stones! :) n/t
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-21-04 04:23 PM
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5. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Terry totally 0wn3d them :D
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