GOP Strategy Reveals Their Fear- Solidifying The Base Means

[redstateblues]

They know the indy/swing voters will break for Kerry bigtime- Their internal polls must be painting a grim picture for them. Does anyone have access to internals?

[displacedyankeedem]

1. FOX News Polls

....are their internals, LOL.

[Quetzal]

2. Talk about power hungry boobie scratchers

They are not even willing to share or comprimise any power.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Try some of TIA's stuff:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=646745&mesg_id=646745&page=

Also try TIA's site:
http://www.geocities.com/electionmodel

[mhollis]

4. The GOP strategy is

to take the attention off Shrub and get the entire conversation about Kerry and how he is not fit for the job.

Here is what I have been hearing above the roar:

Kerry is not experienced enough.
Kerry is not really interested in the job.
Kerry may have "cheated" to win his medals in Vietnam.
Kerry said things after the war that discredit Vietnam veterans.

In none of those statements is there anything about the future, what he intends to do about healthcare, the War in Iraq, etc. Kerry is paying attention to what the Bush campaign (and others) are saying about him when the shoe should be on the other foot. The Bush campaign cannot defend its record when its record is called to question, but Kerry has been on the defensive from the outset.

That is exactly what the GOP wants. That is how they plan to win.

[Gman]

5. I have been saying this for the last month

The B/C campaign has asked for church rosters and is taking other actions that show they are looking for every right winger they can find that they can drag to the polls in November. Rove claimed in 2000 that there were as many as 2 million evangilicals that didn't vote. Rove knows Bush will not win by wooing the undecideds since, historically, the undecideds break for the challenger by as much as 85-15. The strategy is to chum the water a bloody bright red with right wing rhetoric in order to attract as many nuts to the polls as they can find. The SB ads are testimony to this.

There is a dual purpose to this strategy. The obvious is the GOTV for Bush to win the election. However, the other, most dangerous purpose is that of claiming a mandate to complete the remaking of America in the radical right wing image based on the knowledge that the true crazies elected him. Since the Bush campaign will have won the election based on their GOTV strategy of getting out to vote every single nutcase right winger they can find, they will then implement the radical right wing agenda.

I think this is also why you will not see anything from the GOP addressing the issues, but instead they will only trash Kerry. If the above is the strategy, they see no reason to "preach to the choir", but only to drive home how bad Kerry is and that it is their solemn duty before God to vote for Bush and keep Kerry from being elected.

[Toots]

6. If they feel they have to solidify their base at this late stage they

are in very serious trouble. Either that or they are so confident that they feel they don't need to reach out to independents or swing voters. What could possibly make them feel that confident? BBV

[Old and In the Way]

7. Time for Kerry to change the conversation

Reposted a couple of days ago by blm-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=644861

Submitted by A Possum:

"Bush did business with Bin Laden's bankers while Kerry...
was fighting to shut it down to terrorist and drug connections."

"Long before September 11, 2001, Bush got a 25 million dollar loan from the same bankers that dealt with bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, while John Kerry fought to stop this bank's global laundering of money for drug lords and terrorists. John Kerry shut it down. He's been fighting terrorism at its roots since before George Bush ran for office."


I likes it. It's based on the Washington Monthly article on Kerry and how he worked to stop the funding of terrorism and drug money laundering at BCCI.

This is an important area to pursue in this election. It also acts as a good rebuttal to those who enjoy SMEARING Kerry by accusing him of being a poll-driven political coward. They couldn't be MORE wrong.

excerpt:
>>>>>>
Bin Laden's bankers
Kerry's record in the BCCI affair, of course, contrasts sharply with Bush's. The current president's career as an oilman was always marked by the kind of insider cronyism that Kerry resisted. Even more startling, as a director of Texas-based Harken Energy, Bush himself did business with BCCI-connected institutions almost at the same time Kerry was fighting the bank. As The Wall Street Journal reported in 1991, there was a "mosaic of BCCI connections surrounding since George W. Bush came on board." In 1987, Bush secured a critical $25 million-loan from a bank the Kerry Commission would later reveal to be a BCCI joint venture. Certainly, Bush did not suspect BCCI had such questionable connections at the time. But still, the president's history suggests his attacks on Kerry's national-security credentials come from a position of little authority.

As the presidential campaign enters its final stretch, Kerry's BCCI experience is important for two reasons. First, it reveals Kerry's foresight in fighting terrorism that is critical for any president in this age of asymmetrical threats. As The Washington Post noted, "years before money laundering became a centerpiece of antiterrorist efforts...Kerry crusaded for controls on global money laundering in the name of national security."

Make no mistake about it, BCCI would have been a player. A decade after Kerry helped shut the bank down, the CIA discovered Osama bin Laden was among those with accounts at the bank. A French intelligence report obtained by The Washington Post in 2002 identified dozens of companies and individuals who were involved with BCCI and were found to be dealing with bin Laden after the bank collapsed, and that the financial network operated by bin Laden today "is similar to the network put in place in the 1980s by BCCI." As one senior U.S. investigator said in 2002, "BCCI was the mother and father of terrorist financing operations."

Second, the BCCI affair showed Kerry to be a politician driven by a sense of mission, rather than expediency--even when it meant ruffling feathers. Perhaps Sen. Hank Brown, the ranking Republican on Kerry's subcommittee, put it best. "John Kerry was willing to spearhead this difficult investigation," Brown said. "Because many important members of his own party were involved in this scandal, it was a distasteful subject for other committee and subcommittee chairmen to investigate. They did not. John Kerry did."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.sir...

[randr]

8. The fact that they are still desperately trying to solidify their base

indicates a campaign in trouble.
Kerry is already out gathering in the independents, undecideds, and is pushing hard in B*'s own districts.
B* has yet to plug the holes that the rats are running through.
When the dust settles from the SBV scandal their will be gapping holes in his ship of state.