An Open Letter to All Democratic Presidential Campaign Managers -- Trippi

An Open Letter to All Democratic Presidential Campaign Managers

Last week, a group called "Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values" began airing a television ad in New Hampshire and South Carolina attacking Howard Dean's commitment to defending America. The group is headed by a Democratic contributor, and the press secretary is a former aide to one of Dr. Dean's rivals. Using the image of Osama bin Laden, it is the kind of fearmongering attack we've come to expect from Republicans and panders to the worst in voters. I'm writing to call on each one of you to condemn this despicable ad and demand it be pulled from the airwaves.

Democrats are better than this. This type of ad represents everything that is wrong with our political process today -- polluting our airwaves with smears on other candidates that have nothing to do with legitimate policy differences. Ads like this are the reason that less than half of the voting population in America bothers to go to the polls.

We Democrats should be committing ourselves to bringing more people into the process instead of resorting to tactics that cause more people to lose faith in politics altogether. Our campaign is committed to inspiring people to believe in their democracy again -- challenging 2 million people to donate $100 each to take back their country.

Our party must be about more than just changing presidents -- it must be dedicated to changing our country's politics. I hope you'll join me in denouncing this ad and demanding it be pulled from the airwaves immediately.

Sincerely,

Joe Trippi



Posted by Joe Trippi at 04:17 PM
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Appealing to the best in us.

Even if Dean wins the nomination and the general, will he just be laid bare to right wing attacks for four years, while the rest of the Democrats hang back in fear (or attack him themselves, like Lieberman did with Clinton?)

Read today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3412-2003Dec15.html

This smells.

Oh Gephardt how low you've sunk. It was lame when you assembled a coalition of dems to give Bush the A-OK on oil-grab 2003, but this republican-esque fear-mongering... double tisk.

(You can tell I'm disapointed by the excessive use of hyphens)

- Aloha Texan

It's the crusty old establishment that's attacking without principles, not Dean.

His campaign put out an official statement (which is posted to another thread that I haven't got the link to at the moment). Looks very good.

Hoping the rest will grow up and do the same. This junk has to end.