GOP rolls out attack machine slogans
Last night at the annual Republican Party Gala, President Bush was only able to raise $17 million, which amounts to less than half of what he raised at the event in 2004. at the podium to introduce some of the campaign rhetoric that his party will use during this election season:
"We're the party of the future and our candidates will run against theparty of the past, a party that offers no new ideas like the RepublicanParty, a party than can only offer opposition," he said in a 31-minutespeech interrupted frequently by loud applause.
Some of the same themeology was placed on the official GOP web site yesterday, :
This is all expected to be part of a Rove-like attack that centers around scaring voters into not voting for the Democrats. While this same tactic was used in 2002 and 2004, this year's installment has a twist. The Republicans are expected to focus their attacks on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee John Conyers. The notion is that if the Democrats take back the House, Conyers will head the Judiciary Committee and push for the impeachment of the President (even though two weeks ago Nancy Pelosi ). Attack ad after attack ad will be unleashed in media markets where there are close races, reminding voters that if they vote Democrat they will also in effect be giving their support to Pelosi and Conyers.
Even more significantly, the GOP will also tell voters that they should not support the Democrats because they are a party without an agenda. This might prove to be a blessing in disguise, since the Democratic leadership will then be forced to do what progressive bloggers have wanted for the last year: roll out a specifically detailed agenda on everything from foreign policy to all things domestically related. So while the attacks will make the 2004 election look tame compared to this one, the atmosphere will encourage the usually dull Democratic Party insiders to take some rhetorical risks for a change.
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