Let's hope these generous men are as effective in educating the electorate as they were in 2004.
bigtree (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-13-08 08:59 PM
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Swift Boat Liars Ready to Produce More Smears for the McCain/Palin Shit Talk Express
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A07
A new group financed by a Texas billionaire and organized by some of the same political operatives and donors behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004 plans to begin running television ads attacking Barack Obama, a signal that independent groups may play a larger role than anticipated in the closing days of the presidential race.
The American Issues Project has amassed a multimillion-dollar fund, and the group is putting the final touches on an eleventh-hour campaign targeting the Democratic presidential nominee, sources said.
"We expect to be doing both issues and express advocacy between now and November and beyond," said Christian Pinkston, a spokesman for the group.
AIP emerged on the scene in August, airing controversial anti-Obama ads in four battleground states -- Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan -- that sought to raise questions about his ties to William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam War-era radical group known as the Weathermen. The ad was sponsored entirely -- at a cost of more than $2 million -- by Harold Simmons, a Dallas-based businessman who also helped fund the Swift boat activities four years ago.
The new group was launched by Chris LaCivita, who was intimately involved in the Swift boat campaign, and Tony Feather, one of the co-founders of Progress for America, which spent tens of millions backing Bush in 2004 . . .
read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3994503Karl Rove absorbs most of the DUmmy hatred, and he's earned it by being a brilliant strategist and patriot. But probably the most important weapons we have had are Elian Gonzalez, who singlehandedly, at age 6, defeated Algore in Florida, and the SBVT/Buckhead combo in 2004, who destroyed John Eff'n.
(Of course, the DUmmies strongly believe Lord Rove, behind the scenes, arranged all that.... Maybe he did!)
If this is the 2008 incarnation of SBVT, they deserve the support and most sincere gratitude of all true Americans.
