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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:19 AM
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What's a Simple Campaign Characterization of Bush/Cheney?
The RNC is very good at coming up with short, simple smears of Democrats ("Al Gore is a pathological liar;" "John Kerry is a flipflopper who can't give a straight answer and doesn't know where he stands"). Of course, they do this by amassing stupid lies and mischaracterizations into a pile of "evidence" and by repeating the smear constantly. Then mindless sheeple start repeating the same thing as if they'd thought of it themselves.

So what's a short, simple characterization of the Chimp/Cheney? Obviously, there's no need to lie or exaggerate! They are incompetent, lying, secretive, sold-out, tied to wealthy contributors, dangerous, criminal, isolationist, anti-bill-of-rights, chickenhawks, etc. etc... (Of course, freepers have a pat answer to most of these truths.)

If you had to choose or create just one easily-repeated campaign theme about them, what would it be?
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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:21 AM
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1. Bush-Cheney memes?
I can come up with many of them, but they're all obscenity-laden and probably are not fit for broadcast television.

:argh:

-MR
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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:21 AM
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2. They lie
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readmylips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:22 AM
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3. Unpatriotic, Crooks and Liers....
3 simple words.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:26 AM
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7. It's true
Freepers would say they didn't lie, they just had "bad intelligence...." I love calling them unpatriotic -- hits 'em right in their phony posturing.
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DoverFrank Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:22 AM
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4. Failures in foriegn and domestic policy, failures on every front.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:28 AM
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10. SO true
I often wonder how they could have done any worse at ANYthing. Playing devil's advocate, the other side will say they "succeeded" in our not having a terrorist attack here. (Never mind attacks in the rest of the world or the re-organization of al Qaeda and other groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan...) "Failures on every front" is a great one, though.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:24 AM
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5. DUMB AND DUMBER
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:26 AM
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6. bush/cheney - troubling . . . very troubling
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Nashyra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:31 AM
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12. Wrong just plain wrong
then show pictures of "Mission Accomplished", list the initials WMD's, a flash of 9-11, a picture of the deficit figure, the amount that the medicare bill will cost compared to what they said, amount of troops on the ground in Iraq etc, all with the words "They are wrong, just plain wrong" for YOUR security, Your future and YOUR childrens future, just plain wrong.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:34 AM
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13. Can't argue with that
There's a ton of evidence of their being wrong.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:27 AM
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8. human garbage
nt
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:27 AM
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9. Shady n/t
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:29 AM
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11. Fire the Liar.
The entire world knows that Bush is the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

Bush claims that John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault and Bush promised to veto McCain-Feingold which means that unnamed White House sources may be identified whenever Bush wishes even though everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his Alabama National Guard service which was after he volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God ordered Bush to smite Saddam which is Clinton's fault because the 60 lines of embryonic stem cells and more arsenic in the water and more mercury in the air prove that republican science is better than sound science and the Bush administration did not illegally conspire to illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2 million new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is why Bush said he would veto the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the 9/11 Commission but the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 Commission which is why the White House withheld documents and called the republicans on the Commission before Clarke testified and why the White House is not coordinating the attacks on the integrity and bipartisanship of the Commission since the dental xrays prove that Bush spoke with the CIA director everyday and did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2.6 million new jobs being created even though the $400 billion decorative Medicare turkey was not labeled $550 billion and was passed without bribery or criminal deception which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an urgent but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office even though it was the subject of his first national security council meeting and in December 2001 Bush said he was focused on the military operations in Afghanistan and then the aircraft carrier was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough "Mission Accomplished" banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3 million new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and that is why Bush who will use the jawbone of an ass to force OPEC to open the spigots and who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which are Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that apparently is something Bush can not do.

Ridiculing Bush for his compulsive and incessant lying needs to become common.

FIRE THE LIAR




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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:34 AM
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14. I read that and it took me four minutes
to catch my breath afterwards!
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democrat in Tallahassee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:35 AM
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15. Misleading our nation
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:52 AM
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16. Losers
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 12:06 PM
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17. "Stubborn Misleader"
We need to hammer that they've decided what they want to do and no matter how bad the policy is or how much the situation changes, they lie about it instead of changing their policies.
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