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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:01 AM
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Has anybody seen the new "Club For Growth" anti-Dean ad?
The virulent anti-tax, right wing Club For Growth (and whose growth they're promoting they're not saying) is running a new anti-Dean, and by extension Gephardt, commercial in Iowa.

In the ad, a farmer says he thinks that "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading ..." before the farmer's wife then finishes the sentence: "... Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs."

I saw this this morning and it's so ludicrous that it's an insult to all Iowans!

The so-called farming couple stands in front of what looks to be an outhouse. "Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont..."!? The state with the "Live Free or Die" motto on its license plates?

I wish Club For Growth had the video posted on its Web site.

It's STOO-PID.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:07 AM
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1. Yeah, FAUX showed that ridiculous piece of shit last night
...and not even FAUX viewers are dumb enough to fall for that crap. :eyes:
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:12 AM
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2. Bush people are denouncing this ad only because they want Dean to win.
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:12 AM by oasis
Now there's something to ponder. :think:
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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:26 AM
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6. Or maybe
because it's partially funded by Clark's old boss.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:34 AM
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10. Partially funded by Clarks ex-boss? The sushi part or the BMW part?
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:37 AM by oasis
:-)
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:18 AM
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3. It's way over the top and meant to be that way. Why?
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:30 AM by blm
Because that ad is meant to solidify the base to rally around Dean to defend him from the right. It is the SECOND ad they ran against Dean as the presumptive nominee. They want people to see him as INEVITABLE. The inevitability card.

Stephen Moore of the CATO Institute and Club for Growth has a relationship with Dean. In 1997 he said he "finally found a Democrat he can work with."

BTW....CATO Institute funders, the Koch brothers, are the guys Dean arranged the Vermont Yankee deal that turned over the state's utility to Entergy.
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bearfartinthewoods Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:26 AM
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5. it is waaaay over the top.
and i've been wondering why myself. i'm not sure i buy your idea but until i come up with another theory, it's worth thinking about.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:29 AM
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7. No, you've got it all wrong
This is a very subtle play...they are attacking him so that Dean's base will be briefly disillusioned, while Gephardt takes IA. Then, when panic whether Kerry could actually make a move in New Hampshire takes hold, Dean makes an embarrassing remark which throws the nomination to...you guessed it...Clark!!

Crafty bastards!!

:silly:
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molly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:49 AM
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15. Dean wouldn't do anything that under-handed
would he?
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RogueTrooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:31 AM
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21. We can only hope so
:evilgrin:
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WiseMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:10 AM
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19. I agree. This hack ad Boosts Dean. But Still I think it Bucks Rove request

that they hold off till after Dean seals the nomination.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:22 AM
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4. "Live Free Or Die" is the motto of New Hampshire, not Vermont
those clowns can't even get their states right!

BTW, the name Club For Growth always reminds me of a quote attributed to Edward Abbey, something like "...growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell..."

:kick:
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Hep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:32 AM
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9. This is Iowa:
Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain
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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:37 AM
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11. Nope, I got it wrong.
Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 10:42 AM by BJ
I remember it was one of those two states. Hell, I can't even remember the motto on our own license plates.

That's for setting me straight.

Isn't Vermont "The Green Mountain State"?
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:31 AM
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8. You sure you weren't watching Saturday Night Live?
That's what it sounds like from reading it. I can only imagine what a couple of stereotypical Iowa corn farmers from central casting would sound like saying it.
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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:38 AM
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12. I was watching GMA at the time.
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:41 AM
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13. That was a joke son, don'tcha get it?


I keeps a' throwin' 'em, and you keeps a' missin' 'em!
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BJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:45 AM
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14. Caffeine hasn't kicked in yet.
But I'll tell you, it was one of those ".:wtf:" moments
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AnnabelLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 10:49 AM
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16. You're built too low to the ground -
the fast ones go over your head.:evilgrin:
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John_H Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:09 AM
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17. What a great thread! And for two reasons, too.
First, it underscores the Alice in Wonderland aspect of Dean Media World, in which Carville and CBS are derided and the Washington Times and Frank Lunz are quoted.

Second, The Headline of the WT article:

A conservative advocacy group will begin running a TV ad in Iowa against Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, in a move questioned by some of President Bush's supporters.

SNIP

The anti-Dean ads puzzled some of Mr. Bush's strategists and supporters, who see Mr. Dean as the most beatable of the major Democratic hopefuls.
"The prevailing wisdom is that Bush can beat Dean hands down," said longtime Republican consultant Rod Smith.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:14 AM
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20. It's Frank LUNTZ, buddy....
I voted for him in MWO's poll because Luntz is the most dangerous of the whores because he is actually the one signalling the others as BushInc.'s chief propagandist and wordsmith. Luntz puts out the "memes" that the others promote.
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OhioStateProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-07-04 11:10 AM
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18. I support all attacks of front runner, it is politics, remember?(nt)
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